by Lisa Forkner | Dec 11, 2024 | Advent, Writings
“You visit the earth and water it abundantly, enriching it greatly. God’s stream is filled with water, for you prepare the earth in this way, providiing people with grain. You soften it with showers and bless its growth, soaking its furrows and leveling...
by Lisa Forkner | Dec 8, 2024 | Advent, Writings
Creation calls us to worship! While all nature looks to the distant horizon for the healing and redemption God promises, it yet cries out His praise. With every spear of light, vibration of sound, and color of the spectrum it exhorts us to join its song of worship. ...
by Lisa Forkner | Dec 5, 2024 | Advent, Writings
While creation waits, it reflects. Here, the still waters of a river reflect clear sky, lush greenery, bounding bridge, and distant home in perfect symmetry. In a similar way, creation reflects its Maker and tells a story of the characteristics of God. Paul invites...
by Lisa Forkner | Dec 1, 2024 | Advent, Writings
Advent begins today. Once more, we step into a holy stretch of quiet waiting. We are not alone: All creation watches for Jesus’ return with us. Not only is Advent a declaration of Jesus’ birth; it is an anticipatory celebration of God returning to the...
by Lisa Forkner | Mar 31, 2024 | Lent, Writings
“He is not here; for He has been raised, as He said.” —Matthew 28:6 Everything seemed to be going so wrong, until suddenly it wasn’t. Mystified, they stood in the presence of a resurrected Savior, the Galilean man who had been their friend. In a...
by Lisa Forkner | Mar 28, 2024 | Lent, Uncategorized, Writings
Dry and dry and dry in each direction. Dust dry. Desert dry. Bone dry… —Jan Richardson, Where the Breath Begins) Have you ever stood on ground so dry that water flowing over it would not have a chance of penetrating it? Have you felt such dust in...
