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All too often we forget or make light of the cost of love; the cost of sacrifice in loving others, whoever they might be. This entry spoke deeply to me as one of my co-seminary friends was on this very trip and was present with Dr. Laniak and co-horts when the knife did not work. She intimately shar...

I was very interested in these two “lion� entries because of my friendship with Dr. Laniak and my families’ past trip of Africa where some of these lion images came from. I am reminded of the image of God as a “growling image over his prey,� A God who “hagahs.� So hungry and anticipato...

I remember in one of my first Hebrew classes with Dr. Laniak when he shared the story (from day 10 “Lost and Found�) about the woman whose lost sheep heard her familiar voice after months of separation and came running to her. It brought tears to my eyes that day and was pivotal to my call to mi...

I love how God has inspired Holy Scripture to use His creation to speak His Life and Kingdom into our midst. Just as we have to be diligent to understand various Scripture genre and metaphor, we also see God's ability to speak to us in the very physical human beings that we are and experiences that ...

I am reminded of the gift of life in water. From the very beginning of life, God has used ordinary water for his extraordinary purpose. Water is basic to life and through the gift of water God sustains all living things. In creation, God’s Spirit moved over the watery chaos calling forth order and...