Author Archives: GodChild

I really was looking forward to attending church (on-line) this week, but when Sunday morning arrived my heart wasn’t in it. My mind was filled sadness, and my heart kept trying to creep silently toward despair. I was grumpy about the sermon topic (“reviewing events of the past year?” really? do we have to?) andContinue reading “Sermon”

My favorite Aunt is now receiving inpatient hospice care. Her doctors say she will not live much longer, though of course only God knows when He will actually call her home. My Aunt became a Christian decades ago and was fairly active in her church when she was younger. Sadly, during her long struggles withContinue reading “Final Days”

In 1969 Buzz Aldrin was an Elder at the Webster Presbyterian Church in Texas as well as an astronaut. This is his own account of his activities in the Lunar Landing Module during the first manned mission to the moon: “So, during those first hours on the moon, before the planned eating and rest periods,Continue reading “The Lord’s Supper on the Moon”

Hallelujah!

Last summer I wrote several blogs about childhood abuse. I wrote “Your having been abused is not YOUR sin. It is a sin, but it is a sin of your abuser, not YOUR sin. You do not need to be forgiven for having been abused, because you did nothing wrong” Tough Topics, part 2 TheContinue reading “Broken Joy”

This is the first year that I have been a Christian on Christmas. I never liked the way Christmas was celebrated before I became a Christian – not (as some would suppose) because I “hated Christians” or because I was envious of all the presents Christian children received. I thoroughly disliked “Christmas” as celebrated inContinue reading “Christmas”

Let me just say that I love the I.T. Helpdesk at work. You call a number and tell them about your computer troubles and they provide solutions! Wouldn’t it be great to have a Helpdesk for so many other aspects of life? You cooked a soup that tastes too bland, call the soup Helpdesk! YourContinue reading “Helpdesk”

“Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice.” Philippians 4:4 Today’s sermon at my church was entirely on Philippians 4:4 This is a difficult time in my worldly life. My favorite Aunt is in hospice near death. And yet the Holy Spirit is with me teaching me exactly how joy in Christ canContinue reading “Philippians 4:4”

For my thoughts are not your thoughts,    neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.For as the heavens are higher than the earth,    so are my ways higher than your ways    and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:8-9 When troublesome things are happening around me it’s comforting to remember that the mere fact that I don’t comprehendContinue reading “Human”