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No Room for Error: Exodus 25-28

No room for Error: Exodus 25-28 I love trying out new recipes. Depending on the complexity of it, it is tempting to want to add my spin on it. I am not a novice cook after all. After years of cooking trials and errors, I've picked up some things. Using your sense of smell and your instinct when adding spices; the perfect stroke angle when beating egg whites; the proportion of dry to wet ingredients when making cookies or a cake; the importance of that tiny pinch of salt or nutmeg- all this comes with experience. So a new recipe seems to call on my whit and wisdom in the kitchen. Sometimes, however, things get a little, lets say, wrong. What happened? I didn't follow the directions, exactly. In this passage God gives Moses direction for the building of the temple " that I may dwell among them". It excites me as I read the precision and the creativity of the temple's architecture. When you get past all the lines and measurements, the rearing of the tem...

Hand in Hand: The Word and Prayer

Hand in Hand In m opinion, nothing goes more perfectly with oreo cookies than a nice hand-dunkable-sized glass, or mug if you will, of ice cold milk. Yum! There are other things that I feel pair well together: a hot cup of tea and a good book or crossword puzzle; mashed potatoes and gravy; my husband and I. The list most certainly goes on. I have been inspired to take a deeper look into this Word reading business, and I have come to recognize that all the reading of the bible will not do as much good if not accompanied by its counter part- the gift and privilege of prayer. Here are some inspiring words that I thought were worth sharing: " If you abide in my word, you are my disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free" -John 8:31-32 "If you abide in me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire,and it shall be done for you" - John 15:7 Abide means to live, to dwell, to reside. "You have to live w...