Herod and Pilate, who had been enemies before, became friends when the two insecure leaders of people in different districts didn’t know what to do about Jesus. Both Herod and Pilate knew that Jesus was an innocent man, but the Jesus haters wanted him put to death. The haters cried out with loud voices. Although the entire council took Jesus to stand before Pilate, one man, Joseph of Arimathea, a member of the Jewish high […]
Read More »Is there something that you absolutely must accomplish before leaving planet earth? I had a lifelong habit of doodling until a friend asked, “What are you always writing?” My strokes were always the same but I never paid attention to “what” I scribbled. The marks on the paper looked like chicken scratch. I examined them by turning the paper around and discovered “BOOK” in seven different places. After making that discovery, my doodling habit disappeared […]
Read More »
This morning after reading a message from U S Senator Diane Feinstein about the shenanigans occurring on Capitol Hill, I was inspired to meditate on the book of Obadiah, the shortest book in the Old Testament. Entire Democratic Caucus Urges GOP Leadership to Drop Repeal Efforts and Work in Bipartisan Way to Improve America’s Healthcare System Edom, a prideful nation that showed indifference to Israel (God’s people), received a warning that it had been condemned […]
Read More »Every day is good because it is a precious gift from God. But Good Friday is good because Jesus the Christ, the Son of the only true and living God, willingly gave his life for everybody’s past, present and future sins. He died like a slaughtered lamb knowing that 3 days later he would rise again. Since the Jewish day begins at sundown, any part of a day is counted as one day. So […]
Read More »My manuscript is being formatted while people are reading about issues I’ve shared in my latest book, Bliss and Blisters in Love and Marriage. I am painfully aware that the story is a familiar one. Yet, there’s still a need to remind people to open up and speak out about the pain too often present in our homes and in our hearts. Synopsis Young Vincent Henderson, fearful that he might be killed in the Vietnam […]
Read More »Prologue I am delighted to share my story of love and loss during the Vietnam War era. Perhaps our marital relationship would have been quite different had the military draft not been a reality in our young adult experience. We’ll never know. Yet, on behalf of the 58,220 young men and women who lost their lives in combat and for other causes on foreign soil (per the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, DC), I felt […]
Read More »