Why Believe in God?

Why Believe in God?
by Wendy Elizabeth Middleton

For God is not a God of disorder but of peace. 1 Corinthians 14:33

I have been researching the history of isms. Catholicism, Lutheranism, Calvinism, Baptism… Actually I started by looking up the Puritans and why they came to America. Religious Freedom led me through the different isms and why they became chasms. Which led me to start thinking about why I believe what I believe.

Awestruck

Awestruck
by Wendy Elizabeth Middleton

“By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.” Hebrews 11:3

I am a Wikipediate! I admit that I can spend days happily tracing all of the connections between articles on the Internet. Anyone can use Wiki but to be a true Wikipediate one must be an avid reader and I started early, way back before the Internet. Way back then I was an Encyclopediate. You know - the book form of Wiki. Encyclopedias come in sets, one book for nearly every letter in the alphabet. My mom got us a set when I was in grade school and I devoured them. It was in the Encyclopedia that i first met the duck billed, web footed, beaver tailed platypus.

His picture looks like a lot of left over parts joined together, but look him up, he is no mash up of spare parts. He is in fact, a really cool individual.

Z is for Zeal

Z is for Zeal
by Wendy Elizabeth Middleton

I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! Luke 12:49

What does it mean to be 'on fire' for the Lord?

We had to cut a tree down two years ago. The trunk was cut up and hauled away for firewood. The limbs were piled in the back of the yard. This year we began burning up the limbs. Pile after pile of twigs and small limbs. Seasoned wood, two years dead and dried out, and it burns pretty well. At the end of the day we hose the pile down, rake through the coals and hose it down again. 

Getting the embers in the center of the pile exposed and hosed is a bigger chore than hauling the limbs down to be burned. Ashes cover embers and keep them warm. If we don’t get the whole thing hosed down it could blaze up again in the night.