Monthly Archives: October 2022

By nature, I am not a detail-oriented person. I tend to think in generalities. I would choose the broad brush before I would choose the one for the more intricate work. As I’ve gotten older, I have seen more and more the importance of details and how they affect the larger picture. One particular verse has been of great help in my re-education. Most people, including myself (up until recently), when asked if they could quote I Peter 3:15 would say something along the lines of; always be ready to give an account of the hope that’s in you. If that was their answer they would be both right and wrong. Right, in that the verse does have that thought and those…

  “Yesterday, today, forever, Jesus is the same. All may change but Jesus never, Glory to His name.” This song, written by A.B. Simpson was one that was sung often at my home church during my earliest years. I remember it well. It had a very distinct sound that made it easy to remember, though I never gave any real thought to the words and their implications…until many years later. When we are young, we know virtually nothing of “change”. We pretty much, subconsciously, think that, when we wake up in the morning, all will be as it was when we went to sleep the night before. It’s mom or dad who alert us to changes. When I was growing up, and…