Category: Musings

Time management is my achilles heel. I struggle with it, always have struggled with it. I’m frustrated that I don’t have enough time to do what I want to do (write fiction) yet thankful that I can make a living doing what I do (write nonfiction)! It’s the proverbial grass is greener on the other…

  A quick thesaurus search for the word repentance yields two definitions that stand out to me: self-reproach and remorse. I especially like “self-reproach” because it implies that it is the individual’s responsibility to align themselves with what is right instead of what the crazy society of today insists is everyone else’s fault. Before repentance…

Be sober [watchful], be vigilant [actively cautious], because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. – 1 Peter 5:8 KJV A quick word study of this verse leaves us with some interesting ideas. The Greek word  for “roaring” is ōryomai  pronounced ō-rü’-o-mī can mean the roaring of an animal, but…