Day by Day
Bloom where you are planted
Francis de Sales (1567-1622) spoke these wise words as Bishop of Geneva: "Truly, charity knows no bounds; for the love of God has been poured into our hearts by his Spirit, who dwells in each of us, calling us to a life of devotion, inviting us to bloom in the garden he has planted, and instructing us to radiate the beauty and spread the fragrance of his providence." This idea of blooming in the garden of God is fascinating. A flower has...
Written on his hand
“I always picked him up in my arms. But the people in Israel didn’t realize that all the good things that happened to them came from me.” (Hosea 11:3)While rummaging through my toolbox, I came across an old cigarette pack, probably from the 60s. It had been cut open to create as large a surface as possible. On it were a drawing of a three-point connector and instructions on how to wire it. Whoever wrote that knows…
A new heart
Am 3In December 1967, the South African transplant team, led by Christiaan Barnard, performed the world's first human heart transplant in Cape Town. The patient, Louis Washkansky (Waschkanskie), had a heart that was not viable. The Bible describes the heart as the fundamental motivation of our lives. The heart guides all our thoughts, words, and actions, and influences our behavior. In choosing the king from among Jesse's sons, God looked directly at…
