Not Quite Wordless Wednesday: Revisiting Ruth

  A few years back, i did a vew Saturday Sister meditations based on my reading of several Ruth novels.

  Then i couldn't figure out what i could say without spoiling the plots of all of them.

  Recently, i came across some illustrations that i made for posts never written, and thought i'd share them anyway.

This one i could not get to scan nicely, so i redid it in Windows Paint.

Saturday Sisters: Looking at a Fictional Character

  When i began this blog, and the Saturday Sisters, i never thought i would write about a totally fictitious character.  But this one is hits a place a lot of us have wondered about.

Come to My Church (Be Sure & Listen Close the 1st time. . . .)

  i've generally made it a policy to not mention by name the churches & schools i'm associated with.  Not that there's anything wrong with them, but, in the natural course of events, life does not flow smoothly when humans get together. And, to a certain extent, the heart of blogging is discussing problems.
  My idea in this reticence is

Days Past Blogger Friend Debbie Remembers

Earlier i reposted one of my friend's posts.  Today, i would like to share another.
Never Once

Saturday Sisters: Rebekah Again

  One of the first Saturday Sisters which i did was about Rebekah's failure to always put God first.  Lately

Saturday Sisters: Rhoda

Acts 12:13-14, The Message

This is a story i need to back into. . . . 
       (or you can skip to Parts 4 & 5 for the actual Rhoda meditation)

Words on Wednesday: Recent Reading (Obsessions?)

One thing leads to another. . .

Saturday Sisters: Sarah: And After the Promise was Fulfilled

Our Family Snapshot of Abraham and Sarah 

 Sarah always spoke her mind.  Her husband listened to her. 
  So Hagar became the mother of Ishmael, but

Saturday Sisters: Sarah, A Time of Laughter

  Some things are too impossible to consider.
  When Abram and Sarai were 99 & 89 years old, God spoke to Abram again.

Sarah: Part 3: A strong Woman, Beloved

 

  She wasn't included.

  There was no way around the crushing news.  Her husband's promise did not include her.

Wordless Wednesday: God's Tree

       

Saturday Sisters: The Woman in John 8

  She's known as The Woman Caught in Adultery.
 Was she

Saturday Sisters: Having God in All Things

  The rich young ruler was asked to sell all he owned and give the proceeds to the poor.  Jesus was sorry that the man turned away, but we never know what became of him.
  i have some imaginative ideas, but they must remain in the realm of fiction.
  However, we do know about a woman who gave away AND kept her possessions.

Resurrection Sunday 2014

Saturday Sisters: Sharing Our Testimony

  So many of us KNOW what Jesus has done for us but have a hard time sharing.  Yesterday i got in my inbox a link to Liz Curtis Higgs' article, telling how she shared the difficult story of her own past with her children.

January 6: The Twelfth Day of Christmas

Frankincense and Myrrh

We returned home another way,

The Eternal One

Showed us Herod's lie.

No worshipper he, save of himself.

We followed along the path the LORD showed us.

We who love Him must always

Choose His path rather than men's,

It is the same choice He made

For us.

January 3: The Ninth Day of Christmas

PANIC

Who is this old man?

Who is this Babe?

Many fall and rise? Salvation to Gentiles too?

A sword pierce my soul?

What have i gotten into?

Adonai, is it too late to change all this?
i thought we'd come through the rough part!
 

January 2: The Eighth Day of Christmas

ARRIVED

And now

The day You promised has arrived.

I have seen Your salvation with my own eyes.

Please take me home, Lord, as You promised.

This is a special Child you hold here.

People will divide over Him, their thoughts known,

Israel's glory will shine through Him,

And your own soul be pierced. 


        Simeon in the Temple

December 27: The Second Day of Christmas

WORDS
          --Luke the Researcher/Writer Weighs In

In Philippi

The demon-possessed slave girl prattled good news,

Ceaselessly, unknowingly.

Vacated, she had nothing to say.

Paul, hit by divinely-touched sparks,

blesses us with sermons for the ages.

The mother of our Lord ponders.

Not for her the quick, glib turn of phrase,

But she meditates deeply.

I knew I needed her words

to tell the carefully researched story

of the Lord.

Even after all these years,

she haltingly recounts the events.

          She is a necessary witness.

Saturday Sisters: The Proverbs 31 Woman

   i think everyone gets tired when reading about the Proverbs 31 Woman.  She's everywhere, doing everything, and she does it perfectly.
  But