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  • Genesis 20: Fear & Infertility 

    Abraham and his family travel southwest across the Negev, a desert, past the place that Hagar went when she ran away to a place called Gerar. Abraham tells the local King Abimelech that Sarah is his sister and so takes her keeps her in his palace. It’s the same deal as in Egypt.  God visits…

  • Genesis 17: Covenant 

    When Abram was 99, God spoke to him and repeated his promise to bless Abram with children. Abram fell on his face. God gave him a new name, Abraham, meaning father of multitudes. God says he needs to live blameless in order to receive the blessing. God says kings will come from him and promises…

  • Genesis 16: Seen

    After living in Canaan for ten years, Abram and Sarai still do not have a child. Sarai plans to make her Egyptian servant Hagar sleep with her husband in order to obtain one. Abram agrees and Hagar gets pregnant. It’s almost the perfect solution.  Hagar looks at Sarai with contempt and Sarai complains to Abram.…

  • Genesis 15: Dreams & Visions

    Abram has a vision of God saying, “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.”  Instead of just accepting this, Abram questions God about his childlessness. He doesn’t understand how the promise of having countless descendants can be fulfilled without even having one kid. What gives? Now that his nephew Lot…

  • Genesis 12: Travelog

    God tells Abram to go from his country, his kindred and his father’s house to a land that “I will show you.” He promises to make Abram a great nation, bless him and make his name great, so he will be a blessing. All those that bless him, God will bless. God will curse all…

  • Genesis 2:21 Woman

    The Lord caused the man to fall asleep and took his rib and made a woman. The man said “at last, bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh.” He called her woman meaning taken from man. Adam saw himself in Eve.  The text says, “therefore a man shall leave his parents and join…

  • Salutations 

    Last night, I watched a movie adaptation of Charlotte‘s Web with Ivy. There’s a bunch of children’s shows that I never saw because they came after I was a grown-up, but before I had kids. I have recently purchased a paperback copy of Charlotte‘s Web for Ivy who is a new reader, so of course…

  • Foreign War and Family Lore

    Two weeks ago, Tim and I used the special computer down at the Brookwood Library that is dedicated to ancestry to search our family tree. Having a common last name like Adams makes it pretty challenging to search up at Tim’s family tree because there are literally hundreds of Adams, Adamses?, dotting the East Coast.…

  • A Mighty Whine

    Today is the first day I have not had a cough in three weeks, maybe four. Being medium sick is such a drag, especially when you are a Mom. It was a head cold I got hit with on a Friday that ran the most of February. By week two, it settled into my lungs…

  • 2 Corinthians 2: Love letters

    When reading other people’s mail, you have to figure out what is in the unsaid parts. Here, Paul is continuing to be sad about not coming to Corinth in person, and being forced into corresponding by letter. At the time of writing, he is feeling awful about not keeping his word to visit. As readers,…