Per Venia

23 [They are] new every morning: great [is] thy faithfulness. I find this to be true on so many levels. When I wake up and hear my wife’s voice say she loves me. As I walk down the hallway I hear one of my boys thump the wall with his foot as his [...]

It’s been a long time since my last post. Life seems to have a habit of going nuts for a while and then slowing down for a bit. Baseball season dominated the entire month of May, and then gave way to open house preparations. Throw in visiting with family home from the [...]

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Jesus wants you and I to be with Him. To experience and share in everything the Father has given Him. He states this desire shortly before His crucifixion (John 17). It’s a heady thing to consider that God himself wants to share himself with me.

Charles Spurgeon writes in “All Of Grace”, of man who hung a cup on a chain near a roadside well. Later it was mentioned to him that it’s design had been criticized by some famous man. He responded by asking, “but have very many thirsty people slaked their thirst ?”. He was assure that [...]

I’ve been reading in Colossians for the last couple of days. In this chapter Paul is focusing a bit on warning them concerning a falling back on the ritual of the OT. I like how he puts it, the ritual of the OT is a shadow while Jesus is the substance or the [...]

One of my kids uttered those words at some point in the past. I’m sorry to say my memory on who is a little fuzzy. The reality is that they probably all said it at one time or another, so have I and probably you to. We all need to be noticed, [...]

I love good, strong hot coffee in the morning (and other times) , an ice cold Diet Pepsi with a meal, a glass of ice water when I’m hot and sweaty… they all “hit the spot” but not at the same time. I’ve been reading a lot of scripture about passions, desire, thirst, and [...]

When I was a kid , I couldn’t wait for the new Sears “wishbook” catalog to arrive in November. I could and did spend hours poring over every item in the toy section. It was a great source to use in making our Christmas list for mom and dad. This was a [...]

I’ve continued thinking about what my soul craves.  I believe just about every human craves much the same things.  We express those cravings in a pretty diverse manner but ultimately we’re all much the same.  We were all shaped in the same pattern after all, Genesis says we’re made in God’s image.  I’ve looked up [...]