As a child I watched a family friend find an underground stream by “witching” for water with a willow branch. I looked online to see if people ever found gas using a similar method. I found a person who claimed to find gas for a gas well using metal rods. I took a couple of old hangers and bent them into an L. I took them to where I’m hoping to have a gas well drilled. Holding the lower part…
Exodus 15:26 And He said, “If you will give earnest heed to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, the LORD, am your healer.” Deuteronomy 28:1 Now it shall be, if you diligently obey the LORD your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. The whole chapter of Deuteronomy 28 gives us a long list of blessings and curses. If we diligently obey the Lord…
Last month, an old acquaintance asked me to share a word with her online instant message prayer group for a certain day. Since I have no word except what the Lord gives me, I prayerfully opened my Bible to a scripture I hadn’t recalled seeing before. The passage is Jeremiah 7:3-7. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwell in this place. Do not trust in…
St. Louis is known for its famous arch, but there is another place that came highly recommended–the City Museum. It’s not for everyone. If you like slides that send you who knows where, an eclectic conglomeration of aquariums, bridges, castles, vaults, secret passages, playgrounds, ball pits, a circus and a train topped by a rooftop school bus and a Ferris wheel, come on in. Artists repurposed pieces of old cities to decorate this 10-story, 600,000 square-foot warehouse of the International…
One of the unique things on St. Simons Island, GA is the tree art. Some artist has carved images on empty spaces where a branch has been removed. Another tree suffered severe damage from a lightning strike providing fresh canvas for another creation. My hosts told me there are a total of ten or more artful trees on the island. The sad part, as the tree grows, the art will eventually be enfolded by the bark and be hidden forever….
When my son, Josh, and I left St. Simons Island, we headed north. I saw the signs for Savannah and decided since neither of us had seen that area before, we’d stop. Google routed us around a wreck ahead which took us longer to get there. The person at the visitor’s center told us we needed to walk to the famous homes, rather than drive–why, I don’t know. We set out on foot in the sweltering heat. After a few…
Another place we made a brief stop on our trip to Georgia was Cane Ridge, KY about 12 miles outside Paris, KY. The year after the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at the Red River Meeting House near Russellville, KY which I wrote about in my last post, another revival occurred in 1801. This was another boost to what came to be known as the Second Great Awakening in our nation. The place looks different from the drawing above because…
After looking for my great-great grandfather’s grave in Russellville, KY which I wrote about a couple of weeks ago (see here) my son and I traveled a few miles south on 431 highway to this simple log building. This is the Red River Meeting House, sight of the beginning of the Second Great Awakening that occurred in June of 1800. The Holy Spirit began to convict people of their sin and they came from great distances to hear the young…
Part of the fun of travel is discovering nuggets of history not taught in school. In 1735 early settlers of Georgia built Fort Frederica on St. Simons Island to protect Georgia and the Colonies to the north against the Spaniards who were already established in Florida. The fort was heavily supplied by the British crown. Six years later more than 3,000 Spanish troops landed in 52 vessels and were defeated by the British troops. Thus, Georgia remained a British Colony….