I’m so glad I don’t believe the lyrics to this song: “I’ve built walls/That none may penetrate/I have no need of friendship/Friendship causes pain/If I never loved/I never would have cried/I have my books/And my poetry to protect me/I am … Continue reading →

Why do we strive for things, move towards a goal, and attempt to make or wish things will happen? Is it that we want something we’ve already been given by Jesus? Significance? Given by Jesus. Security? It’s ours. Love? Got … Continue reading →

Here’s a statement I recently read on an e-book site. I changed the wording just enough to protect the author in case he meant something different. The subtitle of his book was, “How to get what you want from God.” … Continue reading →

“Just as the Germans had left at the end of the Great War (WWI), so they would leave again,” wrote Leon Leyson, a Holocaust survivor, in The Boy on the Wooden Box. Based upon his father’s prior experience with Germans, … Continue reading →

There were lots of trees good for eating throughout the Garden to nourish both body and soul. Adam and Eve could grab tasty pieces of fruit off any one of them, even one called the Tree of Life, to feel … Continue reading →