Heart Soul Mind Strength

  • Nameless of Genesis 6-10

    We do not even know their names. Three couples grew up with a radically different father and a mother who loved and supported the family in a society of grave depravity. These are the wives, not even named, who chose to marry and stick with this crazy family and its unpopular lifestyle. They had no…

  • Minimalism

    protecting the person from the scheme When I was almost five years old, we moved for the first time in my memory. I was in awe when Dad and my big brothers picked up the couch and loaded it onto a trailer. To me, the scratchy, brown plaid couch had been an enormous ever-present part…

  • Fountains of love

    When I lived in my favorite childhood house, I was a fairy princess of the enchanting little frog pond that coalesced in the corner drainage ditch in a season of extraordinary rainfall. Looking back, I am grateful that my Momma (who grew up running around on a farm) wasn’t scared to let me get muddy…

  • Utopia Please

    I dream about this all the time. I want to live in a Utopian society where everyone contributes their particular talents and abilities and receives what they need from others. All the society loves one another with unselfish care without exception. My particular contribution would be growing plants for food and raising chickens for eggs…

  • Inside the Ark

    peace of Christ in the midst of the storm For the first time since I started this monthly blog, I completely missed a first of the month. My husband is recovering from surgery and I had little focused time writing. I started this post before yet a new war breached humanity’s global community. Humanity and…

  • author’s sovereignty

    a new-to-me perspective I have explored writing fictional stories sporadically for several years, mostly for my own entertainment. In the last two years, I felt a stronger urge to write. I’ve tried to write down stories and events from my life, but the most fun writing has been fictional stories that pop into my head.…

  • God of all comfort

    Jesus is worth all my afflictions As I seek comfort after losing my father two years ago and my mother nine months ago, the Holy Spirit has repeatedly brought to my mind Scriptures, testimonies, and memories to help me find comfort in obeying His command to give thanks no matter what. While taking long walks…

  • Fishers of Men

    Follow Me “Then He said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” Matthew 4:19 Jesus Christ called unto Himself the disciples God gave Him, and immediately they came. He has the power to draw all men unto Himself. He also has the authority to grant us repentance from our former…

  • I am.

    God is not scrambling for primacy. I have heard people say that they have a hard time believing in God or the Bible because of how chaotic humanity is.  Imagine a world of absolutely perfect execution of every good and right action. Why is it that God does not, by His miracle ‘magic’, erase all…

  • Conscience

    compass to guide the heart In the Garden of Eden, we had a choice to trust God or take matters of good and evil into our own hands. The following story of how humanity abandoned the good world God made by listening to the lying voice of the enemy is found in the Bible in…