Truth Compendium

Recently my husband and I had the time to drive out to west Texas to the Davis Mountains. I had long wanted to see the “stars at night...deep in the heart of Texas.” I had often wondered what it would have been like to look at the stars as Abraham did when God said that his descendants would be as numerous as the stars of the sky. Living around so many lights in the city has kept me from even being able to imagine stars that numerous. I wanted to see them for myself. How could the God of such inexplicable creation have an interest Abraham, or in you or I, for that matter? King David in writing Psalm 8 must have had a similar sense of wonder, for it says,   “When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained;   What is man that You take thought of him, And the son of man that You care for him?” While at the welcome center at the McDonald Observatory in West Texas we were shown the Orion nebula through a te...

It‘s been well over a month since my trial by snow. To quote the poet Robert Frost, “I took the road less traveled, and that has made all the difference.” I ventured off the path in the Tennessee Pass, snowshoeing for pleasure and exercise, but not having a map, and a poor sense of direction that day, a 1 hour trek turned into 3 ½. Usually I have a good sense of direction, but on that day, with the sky cloudy and snow falling, but bearing right took me too far away from my destination and the little lodge where I should have bought a ticket. The scriptures say in the book of Isaiah 53 “All of us like sheep have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way.” Each of us, I might say, would like a little bit more. It’s not only Adam and Eve, the parents of each and every one of us, who wanted more than what God had already given them. It is in each of us. So with “tongue in check” I made my own personal list of the mistakes I made the day I traded Larry’s Loop green ...