O Father, We’ve been like babies, awaiting strained food from pastors and personalities, rather than feeding directly from Your Hand. We’ve subsisted on spiritual smoothies blended from tweets, sound bytes, and media reports. So, in Your longing for us to grow, You’ve pushed time aside to begin our meal training. You desire that we increase in wisdom and favor (Luke …
My child, You seem to expect my walks with You to be like a picnic in the woods. From the minute you hear Me call, “Come follow”, you energetically begin the prattle about the destination and the buzz about the basket. You have dreams of rolling apple-green meadows and envision stream-side knolls where I am to unfold a patchwork …
Beloved, I know that the reality of your spiritual senses has been a new concept for you. The sight, sound, taste, smell and feel of the spiritual is difficult for you to grasp. But, do not let your heart be troubled (John 14:1). Too often your thoughts and emotions are like the agitator of a washing machine, twisting …
Holy Father, I worship You today, not only as Creator of spiritual senses, but for patterning them after Your reality. Just as You gave me physical senses when I was born, You have bestowed these spiritual ones to me at my New Birth. Thank You for giving me the option to connect with You. All too often, …
“Ze leemoun sorbet iz tu cleenze ze pahlayt.” I looked at the small portion of sherbet in front of me and then glanced at Mark to see if he knew why we were being served dessert before our entree. Mark had treated me to a premier French restaurant for our anniversary and I was having a “leetle” trouble …
“She’s not swallowing properly,” the speech pathologist assessed. It was like a light bulb went off within our minds. “So that’s the reason that Mom hasn’t been eating,” my husband said. “Yes, late stage Alzheimer’s patients often lose the swallowing reflex,” Maggie explained. “Although the swallow reflex is an automatic one, it actually is quite complex. It …
At some point during my mother’s alzheimer’s, she stopped eating. Granted, she stayed on a steady diet of Dr. Pepper for some time, but her body stopped taking in true nutrients over the course of several months. Although food would be offered to her, she either closed her lips tightly or just held the bite in her mouth. …
Manna. The only heavenly morsel described by its taste. “It was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey” (Exodus 16:31). You know, the Word is to taste just like honey to us as well. The Psalmist said “How sweet are Thy Words to my taste. Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth” …
