Agape God, I wonder if I’ll ever learn Love’s way. “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life,” And the Love, Which was put on display In Your life, Your death. I wonder at the way of Love’s learning. “Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me,” To love, All who You love [...]
Archive > January 2007
money… the root of all upheaval
Money. Some take a vow of poverty and avoid it altogether, while others are willing to hurt other people to get more of it and keep it. Conflict over money been cited as the number one cause of divorce in America. Just like our government, people are borrowing more and more of it every year. [...]
weakly prayer – for the sick
Healer God, Is there more room in the house where the man was dropped down through the ceiling? Are the crowds so thick that more cannot touch the hem of your garment? Grant us the wisdom to place limits on the enjoyment of our resources, so that we can place limits on the sicknesses that [...]
“weakly” prayers
I’ll be posting prayers each week, written by a variety of people including readers, authors, friends, and me. Please feel free to post a prayer in the comments or send one to me via email. If you put it in the comments it will come to me via email and I’ll decide from there whether [...]
upkeep of the global garden
Today’s high in my neck of the woods was a chilly 38 degrees. However, I enjoy the irony of pointing out this story in the New York Times which tells of the massive changes in Greenland’s landscape due to the melting of the ice shelf. Do these observed climate changes represent a pollution problem on [...]
mlk
Sleep, sleep tonight And may your dreams be realised. If the thunder cloud passes rain So let it rain, rain down on he. So let it be. So let it be. Sleep, sleep tonight And may your dreams be realised. If the thunder cloud passes rain So let it rain, let it rain Rain down [...]
in search of the pool of Siloam
“[Jesus] spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man’s eyes with the mud and said to him, ‘Go, wash in the pool of Siloam’ (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.” – John 9:6-7 This is my favorite New Testament story because Jesus [...]
happy new year!
I have decided that with the turn of the year, it is time for a new direction with regard to my web presence–if you can call 39 hits a month a “presence.” Let me explain. The other day I ran into an acquaintance who had come across my web site. “You have quite a self-involved [...]
Jason Barmer
