My daughter, I wonder why it seems you are always reaching out for anything you shouldn't touch...yielding to the allurements of scuttling scorpions, slithering serpents, your father's hunting tools glowing in fire- light. And fire. Some incoherent desire prompts your grasping fearful fingers. Lately, when I see your innocent baby hands reaching toward a glowing ember, …
Month: December 2015
Christmas 2015
Merry Christmas from the Schmucker family! We are so grateful for God's gift of Jesus at Christmas, and the gifts He's given us of family and friends and love all around! All photos taken on a windy day in November 2015 by Egging Photography.
Perspectives
I'm cleaning out a very jumbled dresser in the nursery, and I say to my four-year-old girl, "Desiree, why do you make such a mess in your drawer?" "I like it messy," says Desiree. "Because then I can't find the clothes that I don't like!" I giggle and keep sorting out too-small or too-stained clothes, …
God is Light
Do you ever feel yourself getting sucked into the darkness in our world today, and wondering if God is good? One of my dear friends is just now pulling out of a deep depression, in which he felt mired down in the hopeless groaning of creation. (Rom. 8:22) I feel sympathy for him, because periodically I …
The Fruit of the Spirit
Not long ago, I listened to a sermon series on the fruit of the Spirit, taken from Galatians 5. Midway through the series, I suddenly thought. Now wait a minute. Are we getting this mixed up? Reading the passage over added to my growing suspicion that the teaching we often hear on the fruit of …
A Song of Praise
The last few weeks before our trip to spend Thanksgiving in Kentucky, I kept wondering when I would get that phone call saying a baby was on the way. But the due date came and went, and I sadly resigned myself to missing the birth. Another birth assistant agreed to cover for me while we …
Enthroned on the Praises of Israel
"Where is God enthroned?" Will asked me as he loaded dishes into the dishwasher. My dishrag paused on the counter, still sticky with the remnants of a cherry pie I'd baked for a neighbor. I knew exactly what Will was referring to. Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. (Psalm 22:3 ESV) …
arabah rejoice 