Heavenly words – changing earth. I am blessed to talk to you in English. It is not my mother tongue and I had to learn it and use it as a second mother tongue, for which I am endlessly grateful. By Grade 8 I started to do Latin as my father was adamant that Latin…
Month: May 2020
185. Expect heaven’s abundance
I have been reading Luke. I enjoy the atmosphere of the narrative of this report of Luke on the life of Jesus. He uses a very sober, almost analytical style, but now and then the raw excitement about this man Jesus that he describes, breaks through and the sheer magnificence of a miracle shines in…
184. Entering the darkness.
I cannot really say it is my favourite story, because I have many favourites – equal favourites… non-gradable. I have some of the stories of the Bible so burnt into my mind, that it is part of my basic outlook on life for as long as I can remember. So, let’s us have look…
183. Called for the gap
Walls and gates have been prominent in our world since ancient times. As soon as the nomads of the earliest history settled somewhere, they built dwellings of some sort. Villages became cities and almost immediately had to be defended against enemies of all kinds. Cities needed walls, with gates and towers for the watchmen. The…
Pebbles of Perpetuity 