Tag Archives: soil

Working at weeding

click on the link below to listen to Beth reading this blog post: https://unionu.instructuremedia.com/embed/9007a0a6-9e91-4853-acf5-ed8d2563689d James 4:17 TLB Remember, too, that knowing what is right to do and then not doing it is sin. My most disliked job growing up was weeding. It was even worse than picking okra or cucumbers without gloves while wearing aContinue reading “Working at weeding”

Green grass

SCRIPTURE: Your old sin-loving nature was buried with him by baptism when he died; and when God the Father, with glorious power, brought him back to life again, you were given his wonderful new life to enjoy. –Romans 6:4 TLB MEDITATION: Immediately upon arriving at my parents’ home earlier this week, I saw my father’s latestContinue reading “Green grass”

Returning to dust

click on link below to hear the audio version of this blog post: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/ehFVExyXlvb Psalm 103:14. AMPC For He knows our frame, He [earnestly] remembers and imprints [on His heart] that we are dust.                                                                                                                 To this soil scientist living with chronic illnesses, that verse speaks deep to the soil of my soul on a daily basis. TheContinue reading “Returning to dust”

Last segment for modern parable

This first link is for the podcast of this blog post: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/ugsQLBbIVub Here’s the links to the three other segments of modern parable: https://soulscientistblog.com/2022/10/23/modern-parable/ https://soulscientistblog.com/2022/10/30/modern-parable-continued/ https://soulscientistblog.com/2022/11/06/more-on-the-modern-parable/ Even large memorial stones can be quickly covered over when placed on thorny soils. Those pesky persistent thorns can and will take over anything in their path, just likeContinue reading “Last segment for modern parable”

More on the modern parable

this link is for the podcast of this blog post: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/ByK8SDbIVub click on links below for the previous segments of the modern parable series: https://soulscientistblog.com/2022/10/23/modern-parable/ https://soulscientistblog.com/2022/10/30/modern-parable-continued/ Rocky soils are as distinctive as hardened paths crisscrossing a field. Rocky soils aren’t always marked by boulders sticking up above the soil surface because they might be underlainContinue reading “More on the modern parable”