When she was in her 80s, my mother bought some balls of yarn and started crocheting six-inch squares. She intended to sew them together into a large afghan, but she never finished the project. After Mother died last year, my daughter Michelle took her leftover yarn and started crocheting and sewing to carry on the […]
MONDAY Reading for Today:Matthew 27:27-44Romans 13Psalm 68Deuteronomy 22–26 Deuteronomy 22–26There might be some things in life you want to forget: painful memories, for example. The Israelites might have wanted to forget their years of slavery in Egypt. Moses, however, told them to remember. In Deuteronomy 24:18, 22 Moses told the people to remember their slavery. […]
“When deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. . . . Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future” (Mary Karen Read, last journal entry before being shot to death in the Virginia Tech shootings, April 16, 2007). Lack of granting forgiveness is a major hindrance […]
I have read the New International Version of the Bible for many years, but for a change of pace, recently I have incorporated the King James Version into my personal devotions. The King James’ phrasing often has a familiar ring to it, like “Our Father, which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name” (Matthew 6:9), […]
Use one or both of these questions to introduce the lesson: 1. What offenses against you do you find easy to forgive? What offenses do you find difficult to forgive, or even unforgiveable? 2. In the New Testament, two different Greek words are translated forgivein English. One literally means “to write off or dismiss” and […]
