Archive for March 2016

Keep stirring up the dust  Have you ever thought about dust? It’s everywhere! One no sooner dusts off the living room furniture, but in a day or two it needs to be done again. Haven’t you watched the sun shining through a window in a dark room, when it reveals the seemingly countless number of…

Reflection: The navel of the universe  3Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we…

Reflection: An unexpected souvenir  He humbled himself and became obedient unto death – even death on a cross.  Philippians 2:8  My most unexpected souvenir of our trip to the Holy Land is a small tattoo on my right wrist. As my shocked children would attest, I am probably one of the least likely candidates for…

A life of praise  “My mouth is filled with your praise declaring your splendor all day long.”  Psalm 71:8  Leon and I sat down and tried to come up with his favorite Bible verse and decided we would go with a verse that re-minds me of Leon, his life experience and his personality. Psalm 71…

Gravitating to God in times of need  Many people gravitate to God in times of need, and I am no exception. My dad, Frank O. Gebhardt II, died January 2013. I grew up in the church and have always considered myself a Christian, but at the time my dad died I was not regularly attending…

The Lord has planned a path for each of us  This is the day that the Lord has made; rejoice and be glad in it.  Psalm 118:24  Expressing my thoughts through the written word is unusual for me. So I asked the Lord if this was something He was leading me to do, and this…