Tag: Godliness

  • Wakey Wake, Cupcake

    It used to annoy me when my laptop kept telling me it needed a software update or virus scan or some other preventative maintenance. Ask me later, I clicked on the screen: “Can’t you see I’m busy?” But then, the inevitable happened. I got a computer virus that wiped out my entire hard drive. Important…

  • On Outsmarting a Smart Watch

    It’s easier to fool a gadget than God.

  • Let Me See Your Tongue

    As water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man. Proverbs 27:19 My mother grew up on a 160 acre cotton farm in the sandy hills of southwest Oklahoma. The nearest town, of any size, was 15 miles away. Such isolation made self-reliance a given. Because the farm was a ‘far piece’ from…

  • God Doesn’t Make Junk

    For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10 Many people considered famous today were once oddballs who refused to do their art the established way. The painter Jackson Pollock laid a humongous canvas on the floor of his barn…

  • “Cat”astrophe

    Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life. Proverbs 4:23 Our neighbor’s cat, Peanut Butter (she’s the same color), likes to come over to our house and taunt our dogs through the patio door. She stretches out on the welcome mat, leans against the glass and preens herself like a…