Tag Archives: Sin

This is my fourth and final blog of the series on my gleanings from the book, “Intimacy with God, Ourselves and Others.”   In the first blog, I shared three nuggets of truth I gained from writing the book.  In each of the next two blogs, I wrote about two of the truths:  how we hide from God and each other and the importance of humility in the giving and receiving of grace. In this blog, I will write about the…..

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It is Spring and with it comes weeds.  In the case of my yard, lots of weeds.  As I have been pulling the weeds out of the ground, I am amazed at how the root systems of the different weeds get entangled.  It is like they are helping each other stay rooted.  I had to pull several out at a time because of the way they held onto each other.  Then I would have to dig to find the roots that got…..

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“And the serpent said to the woman, ‘You surely shall not die!  For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.’  When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make on wise, she took from its fruit and ate…” Genesis 3:4-6. When we look…..

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