Monthly Archives: October 2023

There are lots of folks who approach serving God with the mentality “they liked to have their cake and to eat it too.” They want to say the love and obey God but only the parts and commandments they like or agree with – the rest they throw out to the birds. They try toContinue reading “Liar Liar, pants on fire”

As a kid, I loved to watch the show “Are you afraid of the dark?” A kid’s scary anthology show. I’d watch it on Thursdays while I waited for my mom to pick me up from piano lessons. I love a good scare and always have. So, I never really was scared of the darkContinue reading “Dark vs. Light”

The second half of Song of Solomon is a long poetic exchange how of attractive both Solomon and His wife find each other. But tucked in the poetic exchanges is the line that stuck up to me this morning: Set a seal upon my heart, as a seal on arm, for love is as strongContinue reading “Seal My Heart”

Commitment is a thing of the past it seems. People break their word all the time. Make promises they don’t mean or really ever meant in the first place. People back out of relationships or situations when they get hard, uncomfortable, or no longer what they expected or wanted. People aren’t dedicated to improvement. SoContinue reading “We Belong to Each Other”

It has always been so weird to me that we act like the Song of Solomon doesn’t exist. I don’t think I’ve ever heard it read from in the pulpit or used in a Bible class. I mean even in our marriage class for just my husband and I we didn’t read from it andContinue reading “The Banqueting Hall of Love”

Let us hear the beginning and the end of Solomon’s wisdom. After he introduces himself and the purpose of Proverbs, the very first piece of advice Solomon gives is to fear the Lord. He tells his son and future readers that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. Now, turn to theContinue reading “The beginning and end”

Today is the Lord’s Day. Solomon tried it all. Money. Power. Friends. Women. Stuff. Prestige. Work. Laziness. Pleasure. Parties. Knowledge. Everything this world has to the answer to life’s meaning and fulfillment, Solomon tried. And every single one came back empty and meaningless. Why was that? Was it necessarily wrong to work hard and gainContinue reading “The End of the Matter”

We are or were all young. And then, we are and will all become old. It is the nature of life. Our younger days are often filled with fun, recklessness, pride, and often bad choices. We think “oh, I am young, there is always tomorrow to be serious and responsible” or “oh, I’m young, GodContinue reading “Remember your Creator”

It is very rare that national leaders have support from everyone in their country. Generally, their policies and approaches are favored by some and hated by others. When we happened to be in the group that dislikes the current leadership, how often do we in private say awful things about them or think them? TheContinue reading “Listening Little Birdies”

We work so hard to control our lives. In many respects, God wants us to work hard and not become dependent on good luck or others. But in our effort to become completely self sufficient we have deluded ourselves into thinking we can control everything. So, when things unexpected or unprepared for or unwanted happen,Continue reading “Time & Chance”