Everyday life can pull us in so many directions. A single day can have multiple issues tugging at us all at once. Our minds are consumed with so many worries about our jobs, families, house, car, food, pay check, health and the list can just go on. Without even thinking sometimes when the pressures of …
Tag: scripture
Being Righteous Not Perfect
Proverbs 24:16 “For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again, but the wicked stumble under adversity.” As I was taking a walk one day this past winter with my camera taking pictures of the beautiful snow fallen land around me a scripture popped in my head, Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, and …
I Am Not a Sinner Saved By Grace
This blog is inspired by comment on a thread made in a facebook group that I am involved in. I want to make a few facts known at the beginning here. Some people I talk with in some groups I am in do not believe that I understand Christianity; they make comments in this direction …
Returning to G-d
I recently began a journey through Tehillim/Psalms. Along the way I decided that I would journal the words and passages that spoke to me. Helping me in this journey is the 2 vol set of Tehillim part of the Artscroll Tanach Series which is full of information and commentary throughout the ages from the Sages …
The Leaf, The Twig and The Acorn
Yom Kippur 5774, September 14, 2013 was a very beautiful day in the southeast USA. Although I am a Bnei Noach and am not commanded to observe the day as a Jew, I did take some time to do some reflecting. There was a slight breeze blowing and the temps were in the low 70s. …
Read The Fine Print
I have been pondering this for a few days now and have decided to write on this issue. Just the other day while standing in the checkout line in a local craft store I saw standing on the top of a shelf there by the register a Christian cross standing about a foot tall with …
In The Shadow of Giants
I originally wrote this in 2011 Honor, privilege, and responsibility are three words that come to mind when I think about what it means to take on the status of becoming a Ger. What is a Ger you may ask? The word ‘ger’ is the Hebrew word that is usually translated as ‘stranger’; today the …
The Falsehood of Ownership
There are many lies that this world spreads to its inhabitants. So many trails that lead to nowhere, one of these lies and dead end trails is the falsehood of ownership. We work many long hours and years to make money so that we can have a piece of the pie but this pie is …
Got Your Ears On?
“Got your ears on?” is CB/Citizens Band Radio slang for, “Are you listening?” Today the world seems to be in turmoil, there is devastation and harsh violence all around us. Just recent in the USA alone there has been hurricanes slamming into areas where it is not normal; crazed people with guns shooting up schools, …
Lesson From The Kiddush Cup
A Kiddush cup is a special cup that is set aside for a specific purpose. Israel is commanded by G-d to be holy as He is holy. The word holy in Hebrew is, kadosh, it means to be set apart – not for common use. The kiddush cup is a holy vessel. It is used …
Emuna Trek 