INTO THE CATSKILLS – MOUNTAINS AND STREAMS

by | Oct 4, 2014 | Devotionals

  Ps 98:8 Let the floods clap [their] hands: let the hills be joyful together.   Let me share with you something interesting as I read my Hebrew Bible sitting here by a stream flowing from the mountain. The word for floods in Hebrew is naharot which comes...

INTO THE CATSKILLS – ENJOY THE MOMENT

by | Oct 3, 2014 | Devotionals

  Jeremiah  20:7,  “O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.”   Most modern translations will say that the Lord deceived Jeremiah.  Some will say he was...

INTO THE CATSKILLS – FIVE SMOOTH STONES

by | Oct 2, 2014 | Devotionals

  1Samuel 17:40,  “And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd’s bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling [was] in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.”   This...

INTO THE CATSKILLS – THE COOL OF THE DAY

by | Oct 1, 2014 | Devotionals

  Genesis 3:8,  “And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.”   Maybe it is just me but when I read this...

INTO THE CATSKILLS – OOH AND AAH

by | Sep 30, 2014 | Devotionals

Jeremiah 1:5, “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee,   This morning as I sit here with my laptop looking out the window at the Catskills I felt God was trying to tell me something  Suddenly...