How Can This Be?

  As I read the Christmas story afresh this year, two questions reverberate within me.   “How shall I know?” and “How can this be?”   Zachariah, an elderly priest asked the first (Luke 1:18).   Mary, a simple, teenaged girl, the second (Luke 1:34).   Obviously Zachariah was a man of prayer for the angel assured him, “Your petition has …

From Glory to Glory

  “Show me Your glory,” I sang. From the depths of my soul, I craved Him Or so I assumed.   “Show me Your glory,” I asserted. And went to religion with pick and shovel as a gold miner Seeking his fortune.   “Show me Your glory,” I maintained. Perseveringly. Determined. I exerted to find the interior, Desiring the depths, …

100% Juice

I love passion fruit.    Although it is a little shriveled on the outside, it holds a delightful tart-sweet flavor within.    I had my first passion fruit at a local buffet in Taiwan. Nestled among the bananas and mango, the dark purple passion fruit had been sliced open to reveal the edible bright orange seed sacs. Like nothing I’d …