Crystal Lake Camps Christmas Post

Merry Christmas, everyone! http://crystallakecamps.wordpress.com/2013/12/24/the-christ-in-christmas-and-at-camp/

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Childlikeness or childishness?

I have been praying a lot in the past few days for the world’s children – to know they are in God’s loving care, safe, nurtured and appreciated.  I was thinking about how much Christ Jesus loved children, as is mentioned in Matt 19:14 But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come…

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Invariable good!

I have been thinking today of the invariable good of God’s children.  We are held PERFECT, “His likeness still”*, just as He created us. Can you imagine there being a principle of mathematics if numbers varied in value from day to day? If, for example, we would wake up in the morning and have to…

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Night dreams vs. day dreams

One night, I dreamed that I had lost my favorite ring.  It was a special piece of jewelry to me because my dad had given it to me decades earlier and it had been in his family for nearly 100 years.  So in my dream I was praying and frantically looking for it.  Before I…

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Harmony with neighbors restored

One morning the neighbor’s chickens came into my yard (AGAIN!!!) and were digging up my garden.  I had just HAD IT!  I was angry, disappointed, sad, frustrated at myself for letting it get to me, and at my wits end about what to do about those chickens.  My thought was not clear or uplifted. I needed…

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