• Animals - Genesis - paradise - relationship - wonder

    God, Man, and Animals: A Kind of Paradise Explored

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    That bulls are dangerous animals is without question.  So when one attacked my friend, Mike, I was hardly surprised.  After all, I lived in Kentucky and witnessed firsthand a bull taking out the corner of a neighbor’s brick house in a frenzied rage.  When his dairy cows had acted as a unit to save his life, Mike entered the Dairy Farmer’s Hall of Fame (Well, he would if there was one). His girls, as he called them, were docile and affectionate.  His farm was small enough that he knew each of his cattle by name.  Theirs was a relationship of…

  • delight - Heart - laughter - relationship to God - Self Awareness

    Delight: the Ministry of the Holy Spirit

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    Delight did not come easily to me as a child. I had a somewhat lonely childhood. I even suffered from a lengthy stint of childhood depression. So when a lovely older lady named Winnie, from the house with the luscious orange and lemon trees a block away, invited me to milk and cookies in her backyard, I immediately agreed. This was back in the seventies when parental supervision was more relaxed. “You are such a good girl!’ she would say to me, and such was the pleasure in her tone that I was forced to reconsider my idea of myself.…