Sabbath Thoughts Blog

I am not overweight. However, if I want to continue wearing the same clothing I’ll have to do something! Today, once we arrived home, I typed into a calorie tracker program not only what I had for lunch but what I was going to eat for dinner. My parents had loaded us up with fresh…

Sometimes the Lord leads us into situations we would not have chosen for ourselves. We don’t like to be singled out or to feel awkward. Today was one of those times and the Lord used it to remind me of important Biblical truths that I already knew but hadn’t thought about in a while. We…

Well… not as early as Darryl’s mornings usually are but early for me (woke at 4:30 couldn’t get back to sleep).   Anxiety, like pride, cannot always be seen from the outside. I have had what I call “travel anxiety” since the second grade, only it took me almost all the way through college to…

Have you ever prayed to God to make your sins known to you? I have had mixed success with this prayer, which probably hinges on the spirit in which I have prayed. As my uncle once said, “Don’t pray for patience, because then God will send you circumstances to improve your patience!” So am I…

Ryan and I were discussing how to determine what activities were ok on Sabbath and what are not (as per some of our discussion in church today, spoiler: we didn’t come to a final conclusion). Ryan suggested that we should avoid things that take our minds off of Jesus. I told him then I wasn’t…

You know how some things kind of blind side you… it doesn’t necessarily have to be something bad, just an eye-opening experience. Well that was my afternoon today. I had two things along those lines but I’m only going to share with you the one for now. Carl sent me a message that Pastor Dan…

I’ve begun reading an old Sabbath School quarterly companion book titled “The Fruit of the Spirit.” During the modest time I’ve been awake this afternoon, yes… read back a week or so on the weekly emails and you’ll see my struggle, I read a paragraph that the author quoted from a letter from a martyr.…

You’d be surprised by the amount of thinking you can do between Goshen and Staunton. We buried my friend Irene’s ashes (today would have been her 62nd birthday) by a spring where her grandparents used to live in. One thing caught me off guard and gave me much to think about on the drive home.…

As per our discussion today, the Lord IS coming soon. Talking about this topic made me think about how much more I should be studying the Word than what I do… and Sabbath afternoon I sit with great intentions on the couch (so really… how good were those intentions…) to do some studying and I…

I remember when I first started to attend the SDA church people would say “Happy Sabbath” to me. And I thought… what strangeness is this? When I attended the Presbyterian church we didn’t go around saying Happy Sunday. (Maybe some do but not any I’ve attended.) Adventists I think use it mostly in place of…