“Because I live, you also will live. We cling to that resurrection promise and we live in that resurrection hope! When Matt Maher released his song “Because He Lives, Amen,” I told the story of the hymn on Easter Sunday in 2015 and I got the Gator Wesley students to paint the 13t...
I wipe down every car surface that I’ve touched with my hands with the disinfectant and paper towels and then the door handles of the house. Inside we wash our hands. By the way, I knew the 20-second hand washing rule years ago and adopted the 2x birthday song as my guide to washi...
The reader gets the fun of reading the implications behind the statement. So this is what the opening of the story should do—it should start to tug on the reader with a want, an implication, a promise of a good read ahead in this story. The tug can be a big one, or a small one...
InLandscape with Rainbow, the storm is over. In the clearing sky, a rainbow offers the biblical promise of a redemptive future. Painted in 1859, on the eve of the Civil War, Duncanson’s landscape sees a light beyond the present darkness. Explaining the reason for choosing this work, Dr....
I don’t want to go very far down that road on Christmas Day. The twelve days of Christmas are a time for celebration and feasting, carols and good cheer, light hearts and extravagant hopes, joy and wonder, and lots of love. But I do want to share a poem by Luci Shaw, a Christian...
In this constellation, the hiring facilities forget that grant proposals are based on a well written text full of promise and rarely full of achievement. Indeed, it has been lamented more frequently recently that physics appears to be in a crisis: there is no real progress, no break through...
So he slips this other gold-rush guy some money in exchange for the promise that when the time comes, the other guy will find his body and put it in the ground. Well, sure enough, Bill dies, and when word reaches the burial guy (who's narrating the poem), B.G. bundles himself ...
This is the promise of the Middle Self and its yearning to Become as these queries flow through our subconscious and move through the Waking Self. Resources: Year and a Day on the Wiccan Path: Lesson Seven-The Magickal SELF Me, Myself and I ...
His promise both terrified and thrilled me. Eventually, September arrived. Unbeknownst to me, Jerry and Chris had worked out a plan to bring Marianne and me together. On the first day of classes, Jerry and I were walking together when we saw Chris and Marianne approaching from the opposite ...
The time I’m needing to tell you was one of those days can’t make up its mind to be spring or winter. Ice melting and muddy, but the sun shining like a promise ring. I remember Ma and Pa both was in a tizzy, though I did not know why. I’s fourteen now. Then I’s only...