For the past several days, I have been engaged by the television series Domina, which I believe you can view via Amazon Prime. I was prepared not to like this series, but when television is well done and seems to bear some semblance of history, I find myself wanting to know more. It is less…
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What My Church Taught Me Today – Be Teachable!
“Be Teachable. You’re Not Always Right.” – Toby Mac While we did not talk about Toby Mac today in church, I thought about his words throughout the lessons of the day. One of my first thoughts, however, was about a passage in Luke that I bet I’ve read 10,000 times before and yet, I have…
Hope & Advent + Faith & Light – The First Sunday of Advent is Hope Sunday – #Advent
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1 I have begun my preparations to Celebrate Advent, and today, I want to tell you what I will do on December 1, which in 2024, is the First Sunday of Advent. Advent takes place during the 4 weeks…
How to Prepare to Celebrate Advent – The Season of Light – #Advent — A Free Advent Calendar
This year something fortuitous has happened. Advent begins on December 1, and that is a much more tidy day than it has been in many years past. Advent ends on December 24. Therefore, in the year of 2024, Advent takes place during the first 24 days of December. I think that is special Many years…
A Look at Barbara Kingsolver’s Words about the 2024 Election — Quotes from The Poisonwood Bible
In The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver wrote: “Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened.” After the 2024 Presidential Election in the USA, she may have recalled those words, but from somewhere deep within herself she managed to say the following: “Truth and love have been smacked down so many more times in…
November 1 – The Beginning of a New Year – Blessing of the Water
Yesterday was October 31, which–over time–has become the date of Halloween. Today is November 1, which–over time–has become [for Catholics and Christians] the date of All Saints Day. I have said this before, but again, I want to add that the Catholic Church and the Early Christians evoloved out of a Pagan Culture, and I…
Amaranth – The “Never-Fading” Emblem of Immortality – Favorite Family of Plants of the Ancients — Including Globe Amaranths and Cockscomb
AMARANTH.— Love Lies Bleeding Image Credit: Eden Brothers A unique growth habit of cascading pink plumes to attract pollinators Annual with bright red hanging blooms Easy to grow summer bloomer that’s great for cut flowers Thrives in bright, sunny growing areas Image Credit: Eden Brothers Red Garnet Antioxidant filled fuchsia leaves makes wonderfully rich microgreens…
Alyssum – A Healing Plant – Believed to Ward Off the Evil Eye
“Sweet alyssum (Lobularia maritima) is an annual native to the Mediterranean area which is popular with modern gardeners. “The plant is low growing, about 20 cm tall, with dense clusters of tiny flowers in white, lavender or pink and a sweet scent. “Other Names Sweet alyssum, Sweet Alison, madwort, healbite, sweet Alice, seaside lobularia, gum…
Plant Encyclopedia
ENCYCLOPÆDIA OF PLANTS. ACACIA.—In the deserts of Arabia the finest tree is the Acacia Seyal, which is reputed to be the Shittah tree of the Old Testament. The timber of this tree was termed Shittim, translated by some as “incorruptible wood.” In Exodus xxv. it is recorded that the Ark of the Lord was made of Shittim wood, overlaid within…
Plants Associated with Witches, Wickedness, & the Devil
In the above video, it is suggested that Eve may have been based on the goddess Asherah Ras Shamra (Ugarit), Syria: Asherah Asherah, detail from an ivory box from Mīna al-Bayḍā near Ras Shamra (Ugarit), Syria, c. 1300 bce; in the Louvre, Paris “Asherah, ancient West Semitic goddess, consort of the supreme god. Her principal epithet was probably…