Child #2:  “Mom, are we lost?” Me:  “I’m working on it.” 🍃🍃🍃 Saturday morning.  I had just missed the exit FM 149 to our swim meet……a large natatorium in the middle of a plethora of trees in a town I wasn’t familiar with.  My right hand grasped the steering wheel.  My left hand gripped the…

But Jesus spoke to them at once.  “Don’t be afraid,” He said.  “Take courage.  I am here.” Then Peter called you him,”Lord, if it’s really you, tell me to come to you, walking on the water.”. —Matthew 14:27-28 🍃🍃🍃 Jesus calls Peter to have courage.  Instead, Peter wants confidence of Jesus’ word.  Peter’s response is…

But soon a fierce storm came up.  High waves were breaking into the boat, and it began to fill with water.  —Mark 4:37 But Daniel determined not to defile himself by eating the food and wine given to them by the king.  —Daniel 1:8 Storms come in different shapes and sizes.  When Babylon takes siege…

Your own ears will hear Him.  Right behind you a voice will say, “This is the way you should go,” whether to the right or to the left. —Isaiah 30:21 We spend the entirety of our lives on the fulcrum of these two seesaws and at the fork of these two roads:  Should I swing towards…

I will bring them back to this very city and let them live in peace and safety.  They will be my people, and I will be their God.  And I will give them one heart and one purpose:  to worship me forever, for their own good and for the good of all their descendants.  …

“When he finally came to his senses, he said to himself, “At home even the hired servants have food to spare, and here I am dying of hunger.  I will go home to my father.”  —Luke 15:17 When the wandering son finally comes to his senses, he decides to reshape his narrative.  I once was…

The younger son told his father, “ I want my share of your estate now before you die.”   So his father agreed to divide his wealth between his sons.”  Luke 15:12 Intimately aware of the inclination of his son, the father factors in the proclivity and predisposition of waywardness.  The father considers the corners…

His father said to him, “Look, dear son, you have always stayed by me, and everything I have is yours.  —Luke 15:31 The prodigal son has an older brother who remains at home.  He doesn’t fight his father, flee from home, or find pleasure in the world in the same way as the prodigal son.  He…

A few days later this younger son packed all his belongings and moved to a distant land, and there he wasted all his money in wild living.  —Luke 15:13 You order something on the internet and it arrives.  Excitedly, you pry open only to find out the contents doesn’t look the way it does online.…

Someone asked Him (Jesus), “Lord, will only a few be saved?”   He replied, “Work hard to enter the narrow door to God’s Kingdom, for many will try to enter but will fail.”  —Luke 13:23-24 Every trip requires some kind of suitcase.  The luggage rule:  The shorter the stay, the fewer the suitcase number.  The…