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Eddying Out – Africa Adventure

I have taken an extended “eddying out” from my posts on Walking on Water due to limited bandwidth…both for the internet and myself.  I have spent the last week in Ghana, west Africa.  This is my first trip to Ghana … Continue reading

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Drink up Evil Like Water

Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: “Would a wise person answer with empty notions or fill their belly with the hot east wind? Would they argue with useless words, with speeches that have no value? But you even undermine piety and … Continue reading

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Weathering

But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and as a rock is moved from its place,   as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy a person’s hope.   You overpower them once for all, and … Continue reading

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The Scent of Water

At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.   Its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump die in the soil,   yet … Continue reading

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Lord of the Dance…

To God belong wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are his.   What he tears down cannot be rebuilt; those he imprisons cannot be released.   If he holds back the waters, there is drought; if he lets them loose, they devastate … Continue reading

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Let the Sea Inform You

But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you;   or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you.   Which … Continue reading

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Eddying Out – Packing the Boat

I am preparing for a trip to Ghana later this week and I find that there is not enough time in the day for packing, preparations, and my walk with water so I am taking a day to Eddy out. … Continue reading

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Waters Gone By

Yet if you devote your heart to him and stretch out your hands to him,   if you put away the sin that is in your hand and allow no evil to dwell in your tent,   then, free of fault, you … Continue reading

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What can you Know?

Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:   “Are all these words to go unanswered? Is this talker to be vindicated?   Will your idle talk reduce others to silence? Will no one rebuke you when you mock?   You say to God, ‘My beliefs … Continue reading

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Wave upon Wave

I loathe my very life; therefore I will give free rein to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.  I say to God: Do not declare me guilty, but tell me what charges you have against … Continue reading

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