fish: Red Letter Challenge

Fish. Fishing. Fishermen. Fishing for men. If you’ve been around church at all, you’ve heard it. Jesus calling his first disciples, fishermen, to join in his work of “fishing for men” and sharing the Good News. (Check it out in Matthew 4:18-22, Mark 1:6-20, and Luke 5:2-11) I have always liked the play on words […]

tree: Red Letter Challenge

Oh, little oak tree, what are you doing? All through the winter you stubbornly held on to your leaves. Through wind and snow and ice and all manner of creepy, flappy, chattery critters, you clung to what you once were. Perhaps you looked to some of your older, taller siblings, and saw how they too […]

hurt: Red Letter Challenge

When I was a kid and I’d scrape a knee or an elbow, mom would sometimes break out the mercurochrome (since discontinued because it is toxic…ah, simpler times) and if there was a little bleeding, she’d slap a bandage on. With a kiss to “make it better” and a proverbial, if not actual, pat on […]