«Only take heed to yourself, and diligently keep yourself, lest you forget the things your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. And teach...
«Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, ‘Thus far the Lord has helped us’ » (1 Samuel 7:12). I anxiously waited my turn...
«For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ» (1 Corinthians 12:12). A neighbor of mine planted sunflowers in his...
«Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing» (1 Thessalonians 5:11). One symptom of envy that we usually overlook is the difficulty in recognizing and...
«The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want» (Psalm 23:1). Those four words seemed to make fun of me. They looked at me from the pages of my Bible as an unsolved conundrum. What do you mean, «l...
«And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose» (Romans 8:28). Years ago, on one of my first dates with Nigel, the...
«Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually» (1 Corinthians 12:27). The comparison never ends, it simply moves into different areas of life. When we were girls, we compared the toys...
«Wrath is cruel and anger a torrent, but who is able to stand before jealousy?» (Proverbs 27:4). The hard part is not that God does not grant us what we prayed for years ago: a companion in life, a...
«Then Jacob also went in to Rachel, and he also loved Rachel more than Leah. And he served with Laban still another seven years» (Genesis 29:30). Rachel was more beautiful than her sister Leah and...
«He will again have compassion on us, and will subdue our iniquities. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea» (Micah 7:19). Jillian Monet stopped studying when she realized she was...
