“Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. To draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil,” the Preacher wrote in his book of Ecclesiastes. This past Saturday, there were a lot of things I could haveContinue reading “A Prayer Listen”
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Planting Abiding Seeds
It is almost time to decide which seeds to buy for our garden. I want to take my time in choosing because I almost always make mistakes. One year, I bought round zucchini seeds (Round zucchini are the worst kind of squash and only fit for pigs), and last year, I bought pole beans insteadContinue reading “Planting Abiding Seeds”
Attentive Hearkening
The older I get, the more my hearing is impaired by background noise. Noisy rooms are the worst, and if I am nodding and smiling at you, you can be fairly confident that I can’t hear what you’re saying. Ephesus was a noisy city. Besides the regular hustle and bustle of city life, there wasContinue reading “Attentive Hearkening”
Sarah Dixon Young 