Doses of Faith

Human nature is a mystery.  Or, is it?  What makes people react without thinking through the situation?  Today, why do people take to the streets without thought of the truth or reality?  The good is made to be bad and the thousands honor the fallen thief.  With the media feeding the masses for their own personal gain, the masses go to the streets to loot and destroy those that will do anything to protect them.  It grieves me to see what we are in the twenty first century.  It is the century of greed with a few controlling the masses for the profit of the few.  William Wordsworth wrote these lines in “Lines Written in Early Spring” in 1798.         “And much it grieved my heart to think         What man has made of man." In my Bible study this week (Numbers 13 – 14), I see men without faith destroy man.  Following sensationalism and choosing to believe the bad re...

In studying the book of Numbers, chapter 12 and verse 1 makes Miriam and Aaron sound what we call racist complainers today.  We read just the one verse, “Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married.”   This sounds racist but did it come from a heart of racism? Maybe, a woman from Ethiopia would have darker skin than Miriam, Aaron, and Moses, but common sense and knowledge of the skin tones of most people from the Middle East leads to possible fact that the children of Israel had dark or olive colored skin.  The Bible doesn’t give Jesus’ skin color or the color of skin of Moses.  It doesn’t matter.  God created us all to be individuals and commands many times for us to love one another.  So, can we say that it wasn’t due to the Ethiopian wife’s skin color? If it wasn’t skin color that led to Miriam and Aaron’s complaint, it may have been the land of her birth.  I don’t know how a person from Eth...

I volunteered at camp last week.  There was this beautiful child.  She talked about her mother and grandmother.  She told me about her dogs and beauty pageants.  She made friends and loved singing.  As she left, my heart was broken.  Below is why. “You are just like your mother.” “You can’t do anything right.” “You always do everything wrong.” “You will never win doing it that way.” “You are no good.” “You are bad luck.”       Words break the heart and kill the spirit.  Are these words that a child should hear?  Words from father to son to son to son or words from mother to daughter to daughter to daughter kill the spirit of each generation.  Let me tell you about a beautiful girl from camp last week.     She is beautiful, smart, independent, and fun.  Last week at camp, she did everything like her mother and grandmother told her.  She brushed her teeth, used sp...