What was it like? There are times people will ask us to tell how we felt about something we experienced. I remember well the drive from Colorado to Kentucky after we received the devastating news of the death of our twenty-six-year-old son. The pelting rain matched the tears that flowed from my eyes and dropped…

Problems. We all have them, problems big and small. Some are easy to fix, others not so much. As we end our “aha” journey through Exodus, we find the Israelites responding to God’s instructions to build a tabernacle. More importantly, they were responding to a request for anyone who was willing to bring and/or make…

Wow! There are times Moses makes me wonder what was going through his mind. From the scriptures in Exodus, we know Moses was tasked with a big job, but then so are we. Moses was to bring the chosen people of God to the land God had promised.  We are to bring all people to…

Waiting can be hard. It can be exciting.  Have you ever seen a flash of lightning and counted to see how far away the impending storm was by when the boom of thunder came? Whether it is barely a minute or several, there’s a time of waiting for what we expect will come next—the sound…

Decisions, decisions. We make so many decisions, often without really thinking about them. Most of us can probably think back on a decision we made that, in retrospect, was not the best one we ever made. We might even say, “Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time!”  Our “aha” for this week…

The rumbling of stomachs couldn’t be heard above the noises of the children and animals. It had been many days and the food supplies were running so low families began rationing what little they had. The hunger created desperation. Can you hear the thousands upon thousands of people complaining?  Long desert nights and squelching hot…