by Darlene Schacht | Feb 18, 2021 | Scattered Seeds, Uncategorized
As I’m reading Acts, I stop at chapter 3 where Peter and John are going up to the temple for the hour of prayer. As they’re walking by, they noticed a lame man begging for alms at the temple gate. Perhaps they had seen this man daily, but on this...
by Darlene Schacht | Feb 18, 2021 | God the source of our, Scattered Seeds
In grade ten, we had an incredible art teacher. She taught me how to mix colors, how to hold my brush, and that the first rule of art is to draw what you see, not what you think you should see. You have to accept that reality and perception are two different things as...
by Darlene Schacht | Feb 16, 2021 | Scattered Seeds, Uncategorized
I started reading Acts this week, and when I got to the part where the 11 apostles chose a replacement for Judas, I got to thinking about Paul, a man who was late to the game. Paul was different from the other apostles. Not only was he absent from the early church, he...
by Darlene Schacht | Feb 15, 2021 | Scattered Seeds, Uncategorized
Do you know what’s interesting about trials? They’re not so much what we think. They aren’t here to break us or to make our lives miserable. They come for the purpose of testing our faith. In other words, they show us where we’re at, and in...
by Darlene Schacht | Feb 14, 2021 | Scattered Seeds, Uncategorized
Today’s Scattered Seeds Nearing the end of my journey through The Book of Joshua, I came to chapter 22 where the Eastern tribes return home. You see, not all of the Israelites went on to live in the Promised Land West of the Jordan River. Two and a half of those...
by Darlene Schacht | Feb 11, 2021 | Scattered Seeds, Uncategorized
In Ruth Chapter one, we come upon the story of a woman, a prodigal woman of sorts. Naomi was blessed with a husband and two sons, but as the Bible tells us there was a famine in the land of Bethlehem, and so she and her family left their people behind to live in the...
