“Let us make a name for ourselves” Genesis 11:4b
I am a writer, by passion if not by trade. I’d like to be one by trade. At first, I told myself that it didn’t matter, that I’d keep writing even if I never get published. The second part is true. Writing is [...]
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Who Ya Making a Name For?
Posted in Genesis Snippets on December 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the Arms of a Loving Father
Posted in Genesis Snippets on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Then God remembered Noah” Genesis 8:1a
The storm raged, the waters rose, everything they knew was gone. I wonder if in the confines of that ark, it felt like God had forgotten them. Did they spend day after day looking for some sign that He knew where they were and what they were going [...]
Believing The Unbelievable
Posted in Genesis Snippets on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did.” Genesis 6:22
My daughter and I were driving along in the car one day, many years ago. After a long silence she asked, “Mama, if the rapture happens while we’re in the car, will Jesus be able to get us out without [...]
Never A Busy Signal
Posted in Genesis Snippets on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Then men began to call on the name of the Lord” Genesis 4:26b
My husband started an evening class tonight. It would have been silly for him to come home from downtown Seattle only to turn around and head back down less than an hour later. So, he shifted his work day. I [...]
The Who of God
Posted in Genesis Snippets on September 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” Genesis 2:9b
Why did God put the tree of the knowledge in the garden when He knew what Eve, and then Adam, would do? Why did He create Lucifer when He knew the [...]
Putting the Sacred Into The Mundane
Posted in Genesis Snippets on September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Then God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it.’” Genesis 1:28a
I was out working in my garden yesterday, trying to get some fall cleanup done before the rains begin in earnest. As I pulled weeds, cut back the Lithodora that wants to take [...]
