Musings

Two Keys to Maintaining Integrity

Then the LORD asked Satan, “Have you noticed my servant Job? He is the finest man in all the earth. He is blameless—a man of complete integrity. He fears God…

Crossroads

When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, “Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his…

Reflections

For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on…

Receiving Rest as a Gift

 Last Musing Until August The LORD is my shepherd; I have all that I need. He lets me rest in green meadows; he leads me beside peaceful streams. He renews…

If Only I Hadn’t!

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. —2 Corinthians 5:17 NKJV (emphasis mine) The sun…

Blossom Tree

Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose…

The Joy of the Familiar

And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today. Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at…

Spring Wardrobe

Today’s Musing is from Margaret Fowler. Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. —Colossians 3:12b (NIV) Spring has come at last, even in Maine. It’s time to take…

Praying Tired

And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your…

Never Alone

Immediately He made His disciples get into the boat and go before Him to the other side, to Bethsaida, while He sent the multitude away. And when He had sent…

No Service!

“Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.” —John…