Greetings! Yesterday, as I read excerpts from the Old Testament book of Genesis, via the lens of an aging Abraham, and his equally elderly wife, Sarah, it occurred to me that God’s deep understanding of the human condition, is upheld by a wry sense of divine humour. Throughout Scripture – from Genesis to Revelation, and…
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The Illusion of (Temporal) Certainty
Greetings! For some as yet unexplained reason, I awoke this morning feeling rather low in spirit; my devotional time was…let’s just say perfunctory. Even now, I remember little of what I read or heard, except a passing allusion to transformation as part of the Spirit’s ongoing work in us. What I do recall, however, is…
THE PAUSE THAT WILL (BY GRACE) REFRESH
Greetings! I trust that you are holding on, in and by faith, to the One in whose hands are our times cf. Psalm 31:14–15. Much has happened since our last conversation, and it is difficult to know where to begin; but as Julie Andrews sings in the memorable “The Sound Of Music,” the beginning is…
‘NININ’S’ WISDOM
Sometime, following the passing of my father, I cannot now recall how long it was between his going and her coming, my maternal grandmother, [who resided in the city of Kingston] came to live with our family, in the rural town of Morant Bay. Ninin, as she was affectionately called, had lost sight in her…
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