Month: October 2011

"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble."  Psalm 46:1 This Sunday is Reformation Sunday and that verse will be part of our worship time.  To state it briefly, the time of the Reformation was unsettling…

"…..when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void…."    Genesis 1:1-2 While those words speak to a little larger piece than I am thinking about, they do speak to the ways things sometimes are.  This…

"He has made everything beautiful in its time …" Ecclesiastes 3:11 RSV The sunflowers have toppled over, some with heads so huge that they snapped under their own weight.  The tomato plants, some still heavy with fruit, are pretty much…

"then he will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, …." Deuteronomy 11:14 Just seemed like the kind of verse to turn to on this day when the rains returned in…