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A Pocket of Broken Stories


I once had a job picking up rocks. Of course, I was only seven years old and I earned a meager penny a rock, but it was a job all the same. We were farmers back then and clearing new land, preparing an area for a garden. When I say garden, I don’t mean a small backyard plot of land for growing tomatoes, cucumbers and herbs.

 
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The Feast of Dedication from a Christian Perspective


The Feast of Dedication, otherwise known as Hanukkah or the Festival of Lights, is a beautiful holiday to celebrate, even as a Christian. In Hebrew, the word “hanukkah” means “dedication.” It is the event of the purification and rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem in 165 B.C.E. after it had

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Thermometer or Thermostat?


What a lovely day.  Not because the sun is shining, because it isn’t.  Not because it’s warm outside, because it’s not that either.  Not for any reason other than God made today a new day and made the sun rise this morning just for me, and you.  Today is God’s

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God Wondered?


“He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor; therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him; and His own righteousness, it sustained Him.” Isaiah 59:16 This verse really catches my attention.  Just the idea that God wondered intrigues me.  That an all knowing God

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Put Christ Back Into Christmas


We hear the saying each Christmas that we need to "Put Christ back into Christmas." But was Christ truly ever in Christmas to begin with? I know this will be a writing that will bring about some critics and naysayers, but as Yahweh God has been convicting me to follow

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