Here is where Momentz With Mary began. Sometimes, I would get no rest until I wrote these Moments down. These are longer reads and often will have a corresponding YouTube video. Sit down a spell and enjoy!
El Ro’i: The God Who Sees Celebrating the 1st Anniversary of this website! Genesis 16:13 Hagar asked herself, “Have I really seen God and lived to tell about it?” So she called the Lord, who had spoken to her, “A God Who Sees.” I went for a walk in the park because I enjoy walking…
James 1:16 Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. James 1:13 No one undergoing a trial should say, “I am being tempted by God,” since God is not tempted by evil, and he himself doesn’t tempt anyone. I know a bit about deception. While serving in the United States Army, I was assigned to…
Joel 3:10 Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears.Let the weak say, “I am strong!” In 1959, Soviet Union artist Evgeniy Vuchetich, gifted his statue called, Let Us Beat Swords Into Ploughshares, to the United Nations. Ironically, based on the verse found in Isaiah 2:4, the Soviet Union was anything but peaceful. The Union…
Judges 16: 20 He did not know that the Lord had left him. Judges 16: 28 Then Samson prayed, Sovereign Lord, please remember me; please, God, give me my strength. Samson was supernaturally strong. Although he knew he had been dedicated to the Lord, he began to believe the strength was his and the feats…
Love comes in many forms…is yours true love? Here is a big lesson I learned from leaving a love note! And some true love notes from the Song of Songs (Solomon) My grandfather sat at the table sorting his key box. That box where you keep all the extra keys to cars, doors, stuff. He…
James 1:19-20 GNT Remember this, my dear friends! Everyone must be quick to listen, but slow to speak and slow to become angry. Human anger does not achieve God’s righteous purpose. A grizzled old logger from over 100 years ago wrote, “When I cut that tree, I heard the whispers of 1000 summers.” When I…
Ezekiel 37:1-14 NIV The Valley of Dry Bones 37 The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2 He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a…
James 4:8 Come near to God, and He will come near to you. As we prepare for Christmas and New Year celebrations, we are often surround by a cacophony of chaotic noise and a frenzy of activity! Then when it is over and life tries to resume a regular pattern, we are left with a…
Happy New Year Blessings to You!! Heceta Head Lighthouse, Florence, OR Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Someone recently asked me, “What was your best year?” So, what makes a best year? The year I was born? The year my children were born? The year I landed my dream…
A 1776 Christmas and Queen Victoria’s Christmas Tree The way we celebrate Christmas has changed through the ages, but giving Glory to God is timeless!! It is December 25, 1776. Is the future first President of the United States relaxing at home around a Christmas tree patting his overfull belly? No! He is rallying his…
