Author: thespiritofmemories

• A Parable On Experiencing The Father’s Love

  

  The music from our Father’s house radiates. Walk in His love and dance to His song.

  thespiritofmemories

  June 19, 2023

  forgiveness, grace, Jesus Christ, journey, life, relationships, Sorrow

  conviction not condemnation, dance, dancing in joy, friends, God, grace, grief, healing, HESED, life, love, mercy, music, relationships, salvation, sin, songs of forgiveness, songs of grace, songs of love

• Baptism

  

  Baptism, identity, and science.

  thespiritofmemories

  March 27, 2023

  grace, Israel, Jesus Christ, journey, life, relationships, religion, Sorrow

  birth, Dead Sea, death, friends, God, grace, HESED, Jordan River, life, love, mercy, Messiah, Qumran, rebirth, relationships, waters, Wilderness of Judah

• Birth

  

  The question he asked was, “Why don’t we know Jesus better?” I swear I heard, “Why are you even here?” Why don’t we know Jesus better? The flight to Israel from Germany was a nice 5-hour ride over mountains, waters, and lands I couldn’t name. Millions of people speaking in tongues not heard much in…

  thespiritofmemories

  March 11, 2023

  grace, Israel, Jesus Christ, journey, life, relationships, religion

  Bethlehem, friends, God, grace, HESED, Israel, life, love, mercy, relationships

• Time Escapes

  

  Breath in slowly drinking the seconds as they pass. Breath out even slower releasing those hurts that built up. Grace.

  thespiritofmemories

  February 15, 2023

  forgiveness, Germany, grace, journey, life, relationships, Sorrow

  cobblestones, God, grace, grief, healing, HESED, life, living, love, loving, loving kindness, mercy, relationships, space, time

• Who Is My Neighbor?

  

  A heavy day in the history of mankind.

  thespiritofmemories

  February 4, 2023

  forgiveness, Germany, grace, journey, life, relationships, religion, Sorrow

  Buchenwald, concentration camp, evil, friends, God, grace, HESED, life, love, mercy, neighbor, relationships, the Good Samaritan

• Thoughts on Gardens of Kindness

  

  Yeah, we boarded a plane in our desert land to explore a country green and rainy with red roofed houses. The flight was long. Hours of playing airplane games, watching an airplane movie and a documentary, reading my fantasy novel, and attempting to sleep. And spying my boys as they shared words and ideas with…

  thespiritofmemories

  January 28, 2023

  Germany, grace, homeschool, journey, life, relationships

  adventures, Airplanes, friends, Germany, God, HESED, mercy, relationships, Soviet Cemetary, travel, Weimar

• The Breath of God

  

  I watched my uncle’s life escape his body. I watched as his daughter cried and his sisters sighed at the loss of someone they love deeply. His last breath came and went to the aether. His heart stilled like all the relationships with his children, his sisters, his friends. The pallor colour took over his…

  thespiritofmemories

  December 21, 2022

  forgiveness, grace, Holidays, Jesus Christ, journey, life, relationships, Sorrow

  friends, God, grace, grief, healing, HESED, life, love, mercy, relationships, Sorrow

• Ornaments, those odd orbs permeating life

  

  Ornaments are temporal. Relationships are eternal. Decorations are material. Souls are immortal. Baubles are breakable. People are redeemable.

  thespiritofmemories

  November 30, 2022

  forgiveness, grace, Holidays, home, Jesus Christ, journey, life, relationships

  Christmas, decorations, God, grace, HESED, kittens, life, love, mercy, ornaments, relationships, temper

• Lament: Joy in the Mourning

  

  A heavy heart is born of a broken relationship, but for the Christ follower the heart gives way to lament and the soul releases tears mingled with joy. The promise of Joy in the Morning. Joy in the Mourning is sure and true just as the Word made flesh. Those moments when my heavy heart…

  thespiritofmemories

  June 15, 2022

  grace, Jesus Christ, journey, life, relationships, religion

  broken relationships, brokenness, death, eternal life, grace, HESED, joy, lament, Risen Christ, tears, tomb

• Weary Travelers & the Kindness of Strangers

  

  the sojourner has not lodged in the street; I have opened my doors to the traveler  Job 31:32 Traveling through space and time interacting with other travelers in their journeys varied and unknown whether for a minute or a lifetime, changes the course of history with every traveler’s path we cross. We, every moment, have…

  thespiritofmemories

  June 3, 2022

  grace, journey, life, relationships

  America, farmland, grace, holy, hospitality, journey, kindness, life, mercy, strangers, travel, travelers, traveling