Bible at Home

The two female hummingbirds that daily visited our feeder have disappeared. The males had gone almost a month earlier. It happens every year around this time, and moves me to think of these beautiful, fragile creatures traveling from here in Northern Texas to South America, possibly crossing the Gulf of Mexico alone to arrive at…

One of the many miracles that Jesus performed stands out for being a lesson and a demonstration to his disciples and to us, of God’s plan and interaction with His people. It is the story of the man born blind who was healed by Jesus as a display of God’s works and of the workings…

My older brother and I used to argue over whether or not there exists such a thing as “truth.” He insisted that “truth” is entirely relative, having no reality of it’s own, but defined differently by different cultures. I refused to accept that, and our arguments were never resolved to our mutual agreement. In the…

In reading Exodus 18:13-23 I have often wondered at this scene of Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, visiting Moses and the entire body of the Hebrew nation after they had escaped from Egypt. It is a seminal moment in the entire Exodus. Jethro said to Moses, “The work (of settling all disputes of the people ) is…

When Helen Keller (1880-1968) was seven years old, she was visited by a young woman who had been hired by Helen’s parents to instruct the little girl who was both deaf and blind. It was a visit that Helen later called,”my soul’s birthday,” for Annie Sullivan brought language to the blind and deaf child. It…

Both of the two museums I have visited in Fort Worth, the Kimbell and the Amon Carter, allow visitors to photograph most of their exhibits. When I learned this I returned to the Carter to revisit a water color painting I had seen there, of three crows in a winter landscape , one upon a…

“My sheep listen to my voice; I know them and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish.” (John 10:27) In this passage Jesus is responding to a request from Jews who were gathered around him: “If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.” (John 10:24) Here Jesus suggests that…

When our grandson was about ten months old, Jack and I were baby sitting with him for a few hours in an afternoon. He was a happy baby and we stayed in his room as he would creep around and pull himself up by a chair. Once or twice I noticed that he let go…

He who does not have faith can communicate concepts, but only a person of faith can communicate faith. (St. Pope John Paul II ) One day when I was with a friend, we went into the kitchen of my parent’s home. My grandmother was sitting alone at the kitchen table with her head bowed in…

From the time that Jesus turned water into wine, and his disciples saw it and believed that Jesus was in fact from God, miracles accompanied Jesus in his ministry. There were countless miracles of healing, a miracle of walking on water, of feeding thousands of people with a few fish and a a few small…