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!
James 1:17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. Got Gifts? About 250 BILLION dollars is spent in the United States on advertising with 1.9 billion being exclusively for Christmas gifts. No wonder we feel the pressure to…
Luke 1:37-38 NIV For no word from God will ever fail. I am the Lord’s servant, Mary answered. May your word to me be fulfilled. Then the angel left her. Oh! To Be Christie Just One Christmas!! I have been very blessed to have a friend for my entire life. No, seriously. Christie and I…
Is there really a period at the end of your sentence? As I note the one year anniversary of the passing of my father, it’s snowing in much the same way it did on the day of his funeral – a puffy quiet Christmas movie kind of snow. It is peaceful, and I am reminded…
Romans 10:9 If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Did you know that the public can adopt horses and burros from the Bureau of Land Management? As a means to create healthy population numbers, there is a…
Who Am I? Camp Polk Cemetery, Sisters, OR As the Apostle Paul, teaching the lessons of Jesus Christ, wrote in Ephesians 2:19: Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household. On a crisp fall day in 1905, a young cowboy walked into the…
Wizard Falls, Metolius River, Camp Sherman, OR Isaiah 43:2 GNT When you pass through deep waters, I will be with you; your troubles will not overwhelm you. A WWII veteran I once knew, told a story about training for an amphibious landing that would eventually be used during D-Day. Even though he was training, he…
Love Conquers All 1 John 4:8 The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. When the poet, Virgil, penned the phrase, Omnia Vincit Amor or Love Conquers All, around 37 BC, he was referring to love as in eros, romantic, passionate, sexual love. This later developed into representations such…
Horseshoe Bend, Glen Canyon, AZ 2 Chronicles 7:14 GNT If they pray to me and repent and turn away from the evil they have been doing, then I will hear them in heaven, forgive their sins, and make their land prosperous again. One of my favorite Denver, Colorado experiences is a restaurant called Casa Bonita. …
Mt. Rushmore National Memorial, Keystone, SD 2 Corinthians 3:17 NIV Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. What a priviledge it is to live in a country that asks you to vote, not tells you how and who to vote for! We celebrate July 4,…
Tumalo State Park, Tumalo, OR 2 Corinthians 4:4 They do not believe, because their minds have been kept in the dark by the evil god of this world. He keeps them from seeing the light shining on them, the light that comes from the Good News about the glory of Christ, who is the exact…
