New Melody Church

  Peace of Mind John 14: 27. “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” As a lad, I lay one day upon a ba le of hay. The days baling was done and rest required. Rays of fading sunlight pierced through the cracks in the walls of the dilapidated barn where I reclined. Chewing on a golden straw of newly cycled hay, I marveled at a spider on its web. Glittering in the sun ray, the web was in sharp contrast to the glistening black, red spot spider. The spider had worked a wonder beneath God’s helping breath. I did not know the spider. I understood not its net. I was ignorant of its threat. As the sun closed the day, I lay still upon the bale. In sleep my thoughts returned to the spider. She never made a move; content to wait. Her net was set in perfection. Her faith was strong. She did not jump here and there looking for a place to build a better snare. God would deliv...

  Recovered I Looking outside the hospital room’s slatted aperture, allowed a scene of a solid brick structure top to bottom - side to side except for a small opening in the upper right corner. There appeared, for a short period of time, a lone figure believed to be some maintenance personnel going about their daily duties. A vent of some purpose unknown to non hospital employees was the center of their focus. Beyond that another brick wall, without windows, extend back only far enough to allow a slither of sun lit sky to creep through. That little light was a welcome site to one confined to a bed of treatment. As days passed, that little twinkle of light became more and more the focal point of attention. God’s blue peep hole into eternity with all its preceding clusters of astonishing beauty opened the mind and confounded the spirit. Out there far beyond confinement, glared freedom and hope. If only people could meditate on the starry sky every evening, their days would p...