Lilies of the Field

  Though the nations may rage around us, life must go on with the day-to-day mission we’ve been called to as aliens in this world. That doesn’t mean we don’t have questions and a longing for righteousness. When life seems to be spiraling out of control, when this world is careening toward Judgment Day at what seems to be breakneck speeds, we will exult in our LORD. Like Habakkuk, we can rejoice in the God of our salvation because He is our strength and makes our feet like hinds’ feet, the One who makes us able to walk on our high places.   I’m back. Life has thrown a lot of diversions at me for the last two months—all good, all God-ordained, but diversions, nonetheless—from some sense of normalcy. All the while, I’ve been itching to get back to blogging and ‘the ordinary’, which really doesn’t seem to describe my life in any way at all. But it is my normal and my ordinary.   I live with my two middle sons who graciously brought me into their home the year after I was re...

As you read that title, you no doubt thought, What in the world? I must apologize for being MIA for the last three weeks. It’s funny how things happen sometimes. In my last blog I had mentioned the hot cultural issue of our day regarding vaccine mandates as it relates to our Christian’s convictions. I got Covid about a week later. What surprised me was just how quickly it hit me. One day I was sneezing, the next I was wheezing with every breath with a hacking cough that seemed to never end. Gladly, I can also say it was gone just about as quickly as it came. I have asthma, so I have learned to fight hard against the ordinary cold “going to my chest”. Nevertheless, about every three years, I get a case of bronchitis that lasts for a couple of months before I am feeling even close to normal again. In essence, during those months, I may make several trips to the doctors for prescriptions and generally feel miserable for the duration of the illness. Covid was very different. I didn’t feel...