by debracelovsky | Feb 13, 2023 | One Year Bible, Random Thinkings
OYB Exodus 28, 31, 35 and 36 The very impulse to create is divine. Although we may agree, those impulses are often assigned the status of hobby. Should they be? In her little book, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art, writer Madeleine L’Engle speaks...
by debracelovsky | Jan 30, 2023 | One Year Bible
You’ve just got to try to do everything you can when it’s your time to do it. Sol Giunta, Army Staff Sgt, Medal of Honor Winner, 2010 Imagine you are an Egyptian woman living in 13th century B.C. Egypt. You and another highly skilled woman are heads of the Guild of...
by debracelovsky | Jan 23, 2023 | One Year Bible
Tell the story of the mountain you climbed. Your words could become a page in someone else’s survival guide. Morgan Harper Nichols So, if you’re reading Genesis, do these questions ever cross your mind? Where was Moses when he wrote it all down? And where in the...
by debracelovsky | Jan 6, 2023 | New Year, One Year Bible
How have you decided how to approach God’s Word this year? I was thinking recently about the relationship we form with the Bible over time: Close and personal? Hurried? Obligatory? Sporadic? Any relationship takes time and attention. When we are genuinely...
by debracelovsky | Dec 8, 2022 | Christmas
I like to begin with the priest in the Temple. We can begin our advent meditations in any number of places—the stable, out on the hillside, with the vivid Old Testament prophecies. I particularly love the opening of Luke’s account. He begins at the breaking of...
