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Type  Forty Rainy Days “Aslan, said Lucy, “you’re bigger.” “That is because you are older, little one,” answered he. “Not because you are?” “I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.” ( Prince Caspian, by C.S. Lewis.) I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you…

In his “Confessions” St Augustine mulled over the meaning of time and eternity. He passionately desired to discern their meanings. Augustine believed, as did everyone in his era, that the sun rotates around the earth. For a while he judged that time could be measured by the duration of the sun’s journey from east to…

Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the forty days of Lent when we tighten our hold on the hand of God, and loosen it on the hand of worldly cares and our private demons. There are several “forties” in the Bible, among them the forty days and nights of Moses on mount Sinai receiving…

My high school art teacher was passionate about “modern” art. Nature, he declared, was the raw material of art, but never art itself. Art required creativity, imagination and intelligence, none of which, he asserted, exist in nature. Even then I wondered how that could be true. On Friday when I stepped outside I saw on…

One of the most heart breaking stories in the Old Testament is the return of the spies from the Promised Land, and the general decision by the people not to attempt to enter the land: The land we explored devours those living in it. The people we saw there were of great size. We saw…

Once I had a neighbor who every fall stretched a line on a pulley from a tree near his house to the frame of the window of his study. At first he hung a bird feeder near the tree, and gradually, over a few weeks, pulled the feeder closer and closer to the window. “The…

Some fifteen years ago my husband Jack was given a small sealed glass globe containing two tiny shrimp swimming around a single small piece of coral. The globe was accompanied by instructions for its care and the admonition that the shrimps’ life expectancy was about two years. The larger of the two died within a…

Watching Nathan Chen on T.V. deliver an exquisite figure skating performance at the Olympics in Beijing was an exhilarating experience made even greater by the announcement that some of the combination of jumps he achieved had never before been seen at the Olympics. Nathan Chen performed five different types of quadruple jumps. He had committed…

Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest. (Mark 6:31) These are the words of Jesus when he and his disciples had been so pressed by the crowds seeking healing that they did not even have time to eat. They are sweet words of concern for his followers. They all…

When I drew back the draperies in our front room Thursday morning I was startled by the brilliant light that flooded in from the sun’s reflection off the snow outside. It was a sight that we rarely see in Texas. I had been reading about the white cloud that had flooded the tabernacle that Moses…