The Daily Memo | December 7, 2023 | Order Please | An Excerpt from Embracing Brokenness
There was order in the Garden. Everyone had an assignment. Work was part of the creation story. Adam was to tend the garden, with Eve’s help of course. The ground wasn’t cursed so work was a joy. Imagine that! Joy at work. The word joy is not often associated with work. But with no sin […]
The Daily Memo | December 6, 2023 | Unexpected Calamity
All 41 workers who were trapped in a collapsed Himalayan tunnel for 17 days were successfully rescued last week. The men were tunneling through a mountain as part of the $1.5 billion Char Dham highway project, which aims to connect four Hindu pilgrimage sites, when a landslide trapped them nearly 3 miles from freedom. The […]
The Daily Memo | October 30, 2023 | In the Garden
My dad loved being outdoors in God’s creation camping, fishing, and rock-hunting. He also enjoyed working in his yard and garden. But it took lots of work! He spent hours pruning, hoeing, planting seeds or flowers, pulling weeds, mowing the lawn, and watering the yard and garden. The results were worth it—a landscaped lawn, tasty […]
Paradise Lost | An Excerpt From Our Upcoming Book | Embracing Brokenness
So, we bit the fruit . . . then what? We were thrust into a world at war. Paradise was lost. But not forever. Genesis 3: 21-24 describes it in this way: “And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them. 22 Then the Lord God said, ‘Behold, the man has become like […]
The Daily Memo | June 13, 2023 | More Than We Are Now
We all—men and women—were created in the image of God. Fearfully and wonderfully made, fashioned as living icons of the bravest, wisest, most stunning Person who ever lived. Those who have ever seen him fell to their knees without even thinking about it, as you find yourself breathless before the Grand Canyon or the Alps […]
The Daily Memo | June 7, 2023 | The First Marriage | An Excerpt from the Upcoming Book Embracing Brokenness
I wondered early in my walk with God – was there a wedding in the Garden of Eden? Then it occurred to me, of course there was. After all Eve came from Adam. They were one before they weren’t. That sounds like a Yogi Berra quote. But it’s true. Then the Lord God said, “It is not […]
