The Community Word

I embarked on a journey this month; a journey to sweet lips. Now, unless you have done a word study in your Bible on the word “lips” you may not get where I’m going with this. God’s Book has much to say about the use of our lips, tongue and mouth. One overall statement it [...]

Enemy forces occupied their country. Without notice, raids infiltrated their towns and their children’s blood ran in the streets. Spies mingled among them as they shopped. Life was not safe when they made their way home.
The road was rocky, dusty and long. Transportation was smelly and stubborn, an over-burdened burrow that smelled and clopped along [...]

Flipping through December issues of monthly magazines suggests contradictory approaches to the holidays. “Survive” headlines one magazine, “celebrate” another. Such different ways of considering the same event. In an effort to respect diversity and individualism, we struggle even with what to call that period of time from the day after Thanksgiving to [...]

Over the past few months I’ve been reading through the Gospels in my Bible. Starting with Matthew, I’ve read a chapter a day with a deliberate desire for God to reveal His Word to me in a fresh, new way.
By the time I reached the last verse of Luke 19, it dawned on me that [...]

As a child I was fascinated by the road.
We had a station wagon and relatives out west so in the summer we would pack it full and head that way for vacation. I managed to talk my Dad into letting me sit next to him by promising to be still. No problem. My eyes were [...]

Well, we’re in. My back is killing me, my nerves are frayed and here we are with an echo in our new home. We pared down to essentials and it’s bittersweet. It’s refreshing, like a good, overdue haircut and unsettling, like waking up in your bed at someone else’s house.
Overall, it’s a blessing. I’m the [...]

If you study the anatomy of a book, you’ll find its chapters consists largely of suspense, as in, what’s going to happen next? Writers craft words in such a way as to keep that book in your hand so you cannot put it down until the very last word.
 I have always [...]

Having children doesn’t always involve diapers and new mommies don’t always have kids. Sounds like I’m heading into a metaphor, doesn’t it? You got me.
 To an empty-nester like me, motherhood is all about birthing books. Of course conception is the most fun. A thought, an idea or a dream plays [...]

They walked with him for three years and each had plans of where it was all going. His many references to a kingdom spurred thoughts of overthrowing the current regime and freeing their people from its tyrannical grip. Several entertained thoughts of position and rank in that kingdom. Others were occupied with the method of [...]