From a Pilot’s Vantage

Tears blurred my eyes and sobs caught in my throat as I grabbed an umbrella to hurry outside. I rushed to the grass-covered airstrip. Looking up, the sky had only thick ominous clouds. It was “last light.” If the small Cessna didn’t land now, then darkness would prevent it from landing anywhere in the jungle—and my family on board would die. I heard the buzz of the plane as the pilot tried to find the short runway near the village where we lived as missionaries in Papua New Guinea.
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Right Angle Right Hand

Have you ever thought about the phrases, His right-hand man, seated at his right hand, and extend the right hand of fellowship as being anything more than just a clever way to say that someone is important? I never connected the three phrases until the other day when I was sent to the garage to get a right angle for some work my husband was doing at the house. As I stared at the pegboard looking for the needed tool, I began to think about that term and all the other ways we use the word, right. The dictionary defines the word right as conformity with standards or truth, just, set straight, vindicated, or in a vertical position. Then the light bulb went off. Jesus is our right angle, vindicating us, setting us straight with the Father and, when placed alongside our hearts, He connects us to our Heavenly Father. When we extend the right hand of fellowship to someone we are in essence saying, “I am symbolizing, by extending my right hand to you, that we are connected in spirit because Jesus is our right angle, vindicating and setting us right with God.”

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Wrinkled Music

The young man scuffed the toes of his laceless shoes. He stared at the twelve-inch squares of linoleum on the floor of the music department’s practice room.

“Yeah, I’m not what you’d call prepared for today’s lesson.”

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Cross Your Heart

“Cross your heart?” my friends and I would ask each other after making a promise. Somehow saying cross my heart was enough to ensure the validity of the promise. If the promise was broken we would decry, “But you crossed your heart!”

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God’s Billboard Company

I love to read billboards. Of course, there are some vulgar and inappropriate things on some and I have to quickly avert my eyes. But for the most part, I find a lot to think about on these giant-sized commercials.

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