Last week I attended the first portion of my final class at Phillips Theological Seminary. The class consists of two 3-day intensive sessions with this past week on Zoom and then I’ll travel to Tulsa in April for the second portion for three days of intensive work on Women in the Hebrew Bible. It is...
Yo howdy All Y’all – it is a beautiful day! “What kind of place grows waves of weeds? Thick weeds, thin weeds, weeds that grow in stacks. Tough weeds, fuzzy weeds, even weeds that grow in cracks – are wild weeds, native wild weeds – the kind of weeds that love to bloom!” I like...
I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. – John 15:1-2 No one likes the process of pruning and the pain of loss, but...
Yo howdy All Y’all – it is a beautiful day. Yay, the days still short are getting longer! Gardening with God in our “Garden of AUS” (Austin’s Urban Sanctuary) is challenging. TheyThemThy alwayspresents opportunities to steward towards accepting abundance and it is hard to keep up. I’m learning toaccept the abundance – unexpected flowers and...
Create in me a clean heart, O God and put a new and right spirit within me.-Psalm 51:10 Happy New Year!! 2024 is here! A new year gives time for pause, a time to reflect, and a time to reviewwhere we have been and where we are each going. What new traditions or habits do...
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. – Alex Haley You are members of God’s family. Together, we are his house, built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets. – Ephesians 2:19-20 As I write, Michyl-Shannon and I are back in my boyhood home on the...
