While in high school I learned these words from Handel's Messiah, and the words there were “he/him” instead of “me/I.” I always thought they were from the Biblical book of the prophet Isaiah, and that Jesus was repeating these words of scripture when he spoke them personally in Matthew. The actual words in Isaiah (Isa. […]
I remember reading about a little girl whose family grew peaches. They would go out in the early spring, and take off some of the blossoms; later they went out and took off some of the peach starts. That way the peaches that Did grow were so full of the nectar of the tree, that […]
When I was four years old, I went to my first choir rehearsal. It was 1954, and the little Sunday school room in the basement of Community Presbyterian church was Full of other 4 year olds. Our teacher, whose name I don’t recall, set us up on some small risers, so that we were three […]
July, 2018 “Then God said, ‘Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion…’ So God created humankind in God’s image…male and female God created them. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth…and have dominion…” (Genesis 1:26, 27, 28) In […]
June, 2018 “The Lord has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.” (Micah 6.8) I went to watch my Thai friend become a citizen last week. 4,509 people from 113 countries came to […]
“He leadeth me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul.” Ps. 23: 2-3a The hills are still green. What a blessing! The hills along South Mountain road look almost quilted, where the grass grew up, and the water spilled down, and now there are triangles […]
Many of you know that I recently returned to work after a hiatus of about a 14 months, this time. This is my third time of returning part time after my retirement at the end of 2011, from the position of Chief Deputy Agricultural Commissioner of Ventura County. This is a position that is basically […]
For Unto Us a Child Is Born, Unto Us a Son Is Given…Isaiah. Through the Advent side of Christmas, I pray you each and all received Hope and Peace and Love and Joy, even as you received Christ. Because Jesus did His work while on the earth; He inaugurated the Family of God…the vision The […]
John 14:13-14: “I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If in my name you ask for anything, I will do it.” And, Luke 11:9-10: “So, I say to you, Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and […]
“Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words. And God, who searches the heart, knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will […]