This time of the year tends to be bittersweet for me. The advent of Autumn (“Fall’s fall” – in my internal dialogue) represents a sad farewell to the luxuriant sunbathed summer, and forces an unenthusiastic acknowledgement of the cooler, gray-skied, year-ending months. My one consolation for this undesirable seasonal change …
(The contents of this post were first written and published on this site in March of 2022 under a two-part series of the same title and are consolidated and updated into the first part of this new series). Like others with a similar spiritual constitution, I have a driving passion …
It goes without saying that human development has been shaped by people of great renown across a wide spectrum of endeavors – the sciences, arts, technology, sociology, and others. History is replete with records of the names, distinguishing characteristics, and notable deeds of the people who have contributed to the …
I have the honor of serving in the health sciences, and I love what I do and would do it without monetary incentive if I had to. The science of medicine (both the practice & principles of the field and the pharmacology of the drug entities used to treat disease) …
Beyond being the proper noun for the eighth month of the year, the term “august” is homonymous, its variant pronunciation being an adjective meaning “of supreme dignity or grandeur; majestic, venerable or eminent.1” It describes something or someone who inspires reverence or admiration, often carrying with it a connotation of …
This the day the Lord has made … (Psalm 118:24) In a recent conversation with God, I found myself expressing deep appreciation and telling Him He had made my day. The dual implication of this struck me almost immediately. Thanking Him is pretty commonplace for me, but my use of …
Shakespeare’s popular play of this title depicts a comedy of errors in the truest sense of the phrase. From complex love triangles, ardent lovestruck pursuers, and mystical fairy kingdoms to love potions gone awry and pathetic playwright performances, this tale is nothing short of a comical, convoluted, cacophony of characters; …
… to the right and the left you will BURST OUT … waters will BURST FORTH in the wilderness, and streams in the desert … (Isaiah 54:3a; 35:6) Last week, we examined the Red Sea “STRETCH” and its connection to the fifty-fourth book of Isaiah. Always fascinated by the various nuances words convey, I was delighted to learn about …
After the instruction to raise God’s rod of authority at the cusp of the Red Sea, the directive given to Moses was ” … stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water …” This suggests to me that in this journey of life, we will often need …
I seem to find God in the most unexpected places, both in the world and in His Word. I encountered and fell in love with the Father amid all the woes, deviations, admonitions, and restorations of the book of Isaiah, and Jesus the Son in the Gospels and the behind-the-scenes …