Drawing his neck upward, he wrenched his mouth open in a final, silent cry — the last gesture he would ever make. The bull’s severed head, pooling now in it’s own blood, stood upright by the stump of his neck in the dusty arena. The nearby ritual of the Malaysian priest was lost to me. All I could see …
Proserchomai
My precious child, Draw near. Approach Me. Proserchomai. It saddens Me when you cower so. I do recognize your fear. I saw it first in the eyes of your earthly father, Adam and your earthly mother, Eve. They too ran and hid when they acted independently of Me (Genesis 3:8). But you’ve been adopted away from …
Sprouting
See those red pod things sprouting off the tree bark? Know what that is? It’s the seeds of the cacao tree. Or in layman’s terms: the beginnings of chocolate. Honestly, it’s very odd looking. Like no tree I had ever seen before. All around the bark of this fairly large tree, there are outgrowths of blooms which, …
Revisiting Trouble’s Trouble
In the allegory of my pet calf, Trouble, it hit home how ridiculous it is to expect a cow to do humanly tasks. No matter how much Trouble might want to help, it would be “udderly” impossible for him to do so (sorry…I couldn’t resist). The Trouble illustration has been good for me because it has revealed how …
The Trouble with Our Trouble
Living the life as a human didn’t solve all of my pet calf’s trouble did it? I loved Trouble. I had raised him with a bottle from a week old. But when my dad wanted to sell him, I wanted desperately to keep him. I decided that giving him a human nature would be the answer to keeping him. …
The Trouble with Trouble, Part 3
Today, I want to revisit my pet calf, Trouble.(If you haven’t read the earlier posting on him, you’d probably ought to do so. Otherwise, you will think I have totally lost it!) What if I’d been able to change Trouble’s cow nature into a human one? Magically reaching down into him and transforming his desire to eat alfalfa into …
The Hidden Treasure
After 30 years of living in 27 rentals around the world, Mark and I bought our first home. It was a little terrifying. When we took possession of the house, we begin to discover little things that we hadn’t noticed before: a hidden sprinkler head, an antique table and even a dirty storm shelter. We hadn’t known that the …