by Space Welch | Nov 8, 2021 | Miscellaneous Musings, Redemption and Grace
I sat at a friend’s dining room table, the sunshine pouring over my left shoulder and warming the back. She tells me she has been studying James, specifically where He tells us to “consider it all joy… when (we) encounter various trials” because our trials produce...
by Space Welch | Oct 29, 2021 | Celebration and Wonder, Miscellaneous Musings
I used to read Ecclesiastes and scratch my head. Solomon was just a little too wise for me, and his melancholy nature didn’t resonate with my desire to see a cup half-full. But after this clarifying past year and a half, I am starting to understand the book a...
by Space Welch | Oct 27, 2021 | Celebration and Wonder, Intimacy with Christ, Miscellaneous Musings
We drove the Kancamagus Highway in early October, prime time for the spectrum of Fall colors… but it wasn’t. The colors were beginning to pop, but they hadn’t hit peak yet. In fact, many of the colors had yet to change. Smiles kept remarking on...
by Space Welch | Sep 15, 2021 | Miscellaneous Musings, Redemption and Grace
Twenty years ago, my dad walked me through a field on a misty Fall day, to meet the man I had already committed my life to. With a twinkle in his eye, and a smile on his lips, he asked, “Last chance. You wanna turn back?” “No way, Daddy,” I...
by Space Welch | Aug 26, 2021 | Celebration and Wonder, Intimacy with Christ, Miscellaneous Musings
Lately, my brain has been feeling like a bouncy ball someone unleashed on the inner walls of my skull. It’s not pleasant. In fact, today I was feeling snappy and unkind in my heart because of the anxious feeling in my brain. I think I might be trying to spin...
by Space Welch | May 6, 2021 | Miscellaneous Musings
I watched a video of a pastor being interviewed from a country where his faith is illegal. He lays his earthly life aside for the heavenly Kingdom daily, and goes right on preaching the Gospel to anyone who has ears to hear. Because the worth of the Gospel surpasses...
