Walking Through the Church Doors

Walking Through the Church Doors

Churches are willing to do almost anything to increase foot traffic to their front church doors: catchy slogans, fish fries, family nights, concerts, and ice cream socials. It’s just possible that two words, spoken humbly and sincerely, will generate more goodwill than all those strategies combined:

Equipment

Equipment

Perhaps it’s time to inspect our equipment so we’re prepared. Are we reading the Bible, spending time in prayer, listening to Him as well as talking, and opening ourselves to the power of the Holy Spirit each and every day?

Blackbirds

Blackbirds

As soon as I saw that flock of blackbirds in my backyard, I thought of the song/nursery rhyme “Sing a Song of Sixpence.”  The truth of the matter is this song is truly nonsensical and a little gory. The point is; however, I associated this visual happening with a song I  had learned as a child.

It Looks So Real

It Looks So Real

Yes, it was real —a beautiful gift given to me about three years earlier by friends. Each year, it had bloomed magnificently. In between the flowering times, I placed it outside by the deck. There, in its ‘hibernation phase’, it could rest and prepare to bloom again.

Over or Around

Over or Around

The river water did not encounter a deterrent and say, “Oh no! I am stuck here. What am I going to do?” One way or another, over or around, it kept persevering. There is always a solution, always a way….over or around, with God.