Posted in Sin on Aug 21st, 2007
For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was turned into the drought of summer. Selah Psalm 32:4 A fighter who is said to have heavy hands is one who has devastating punching power, one who is able to hurt you or knock you out at any time. There is no [...]
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Posted in Love on Aug 14th, 2007
When watching a movie that has a seagoing setting and the cry goes out, “Women and children first,” you know that the peril is great and the ship is sinking. This tradition of putting the utmost urgency to saving the most precious among us reputedly goes back to the experience of the HMS Birkenhead. The [...]
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Posted in Love on Aug 3rd, 2007
Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. [...]
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