Many years ago, soon after we moved to the prairie, something went ‘thump’ in the night. Because it was a new house, I decided to wander around to find what caused the unknown sound. As I walked slowly through the semi-dark house, I noticed raindrops sticking to the windows. I decided to go to the large sliding glass doors in our dining room to watch the rain fall. Each raindrop sparkled like a prism in the light of a nearly full moon. As the drops fell, something materialized …
Month: January 2013
Rainbows, Circumcision, Sabbath
What do a rainbow, circumcision, and the Sabbath have in common? Today I looked up ‘sign of the covenant’ in my lexicon and three verses popped up.
What’s in a Name? My Unborn Children
Some years after having my four wonderful children, I was listening to a radio program about healing after abortion. I never had an abortion, but I had five, perhaps six miscarriages. I had never thought much about my miscarriages because I understood and still do the verse in Job 21 that says, “The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be praised.” However, on this day, one of the comments in the discussion caught my attention. It had to do with asking God to reveal the name of the baby since he knew the baby before the foundations of the world. I turned off the radio and began praying for the LORD to reveal the names of my miscarried babies.
My People Called By My Name
The letter ‘dalet’ in Hebrew means ‘door’. In the name of Y’hudah, the dalet or door is central to knowing God. It is through ‘a door’ in Judah that יהוה would reveal Himself.