Category: Stinktier

Things That Go Bump

In the Night

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Can Be Deadly

God Knows

And Brings the Light.

Daniel 2:22

He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and light dwells with him.

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John 17:25

Jesus prayed: Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you; and these know that you have sent me.

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Words of Grace for Today –

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In the cold dark of night

intruders, hollering, laughing, snickering, partying drunk and high,

on an adventure, the think,

enter the meadow, my home, such as it is.

Home Invasion, almost, as threatening.

What they do not know is …

is what is hiding in the cold dark, out there.

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Skunks meandering after a meal of mice.

Coyotes laying in wait for whatever moves slowly.

Lynx, the hunter predator that silently stalks its prey, including vulnerable humans.

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Life treats us similarly.

Venture into the cold dark,

into the dark of human sloth, scheming, striving, or revenge,

into the dark of the soul, where past sin accumulates a semi-truck overwhelming load of dark-matter, where regret rules and all hope is lost,

into the dark of the valley of misery, disease, and death,

venture into the cold dark,

and one is likely going to lose it all, entering the vortex that sucks one down, down, down forever …

unless

God sends the light into the cold darkness.

Caught in the darkness? Pray for the light to come, and soon.

Hard Winter Coming!

Saturday, October 15, 2022

What to Do Now,

Without Raising a Stink?

Micah 7:7

But as for me, I will look to the Lord, I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.

Colossians 3:2

Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth….

Words of Grace For Today

So the hard winter is coming, ready or not!

Will you sit and wait for God to make your preparations for you, your god of privilege, power, prestige, and wealth?

Will you sit and ponder the sky for signs of someone coming to rescue from the coming storms, icy, fierce, destructive, cold?

It is fine to say we must set our minds on things above and not thing on earth, yet experience has taught us again and again that the Boy Scouts had a motto to choose because generations knew something true: to be unprepared can be disastrous, and being prepared is sometimes all one can do. Things may still be disastrous.

The choice we make again and again is who or what do we trust as we prepare, endure, and survive (or succumb, for eventually we all do)?

Do we trust our own doings? Our own accumulations? Our own wisdom?

Or do we trust God, who created the universe, and each of us? That trust in God does not mean we hear voices telling us to sit in the wilderness, waiting for winter to come and trusting that God will provide all we need! Trusting God entails among other things that we do not let ourselves be consumed so much by our own survival, security, and comforts that we forget all the people who have no way to prepare for what comes their way: conflict, storms, fire, earthquake, floods, other people’s unjustly taking the essentials of life from them.

There are millions, billions of people, who need help preparing for what will come their way, and for enduring, in order that they may survive, or at least die with dignity.

Look, See, Do.

God makes it all possible for us saints: this is the trust we have in God.