A hymn by Susan TernyeyCopyright 2019 Susan Ternyey With Joy we rise and lift our PraiseTo God for this new Blessed day.New Hope, new Start, new Birth and Life, By Grace from darkness dawns new Light. With this New Year let us embraceThe converting power of His Grace,Which gives us means to become as ourContinue reading “With Joy We Rise”
Category Archives: God
Exodus from an Impossible Situation
by Susan Ternyey, Dec 2024 A few weeks ago I felt myself in an impossible situation. I saw no way for it to be resolved, other than disaster. My thoughts turned to the story of Exodus, when the Children of Israel were faced with the impossible. Moses was born into an underclass inContinue reading “Exodus from an Impossible Situation”
Birth Day Gifts
by ST, Oct 2024 My Birthday This year for my birthday I took a trip to Prosser WA for their States Day Celebration, partly as a treat for myself, partly to gather content for my Travel site. Birthday gifts: how that came about and how it all worked out. (My travel site: https://www.travelpacificnw.com/destinations-in-the-pacific-northwest.html ) AsContinue reading “Birth Day Gifts”
Comments on the Story of Isaac from the Old Testament
The story of Isaac’s life begins long before his birth . . . possibly 75 years before his birth, with the hopes and dreams of his newly wed parents, for children. But his mother, though beautiful, was barren. Despite the promises of God to Isaac’s father (for at least 10 years) that he would haveContinue reading “Comments on the Story of Isaac from the Old Testament”
Faith & Science
by ST–May 2024 Enlightenment vs Faith in God The Enlightenment freed us from a superstitious belief in God as the explanation for whatever we don’t comprehend. Science can explain more and more, so we don’t have to fall back on God or the miraculous for an explication of things. Right? We understand the development ofContinue reading “Faith & Science”
If Life Were a Painting, And I Were the Artist
by ST, 2019 If Life were a painting, and I the artist, what would I paint (assuming I had the ability)? A landscape? I do love landscapes, serene landscapes, and dramatic ones. I’m not sure all of life could be shown in a landscape—even if it were a collage. A still life? Such can beContinue reading “If Life Were a Painting, And I Were the Artist”
Trembling Faith or Fear
by ST Although I know That Thou art Good and Kind I know Also That I do not know Thy Mind. So when I fear, It’s not my faith that’s undermined, My fear is, then, That my suffering fits Thy Plan Divine.
A Journey and a Struggle
thoughts of Gen 31-32, by ST 1980s Taking a journey to the Promised Land: A fight, a flight, a struggle on every hand. Life’s former employ all left behind, Seeking now gods of a different kind. Though my past come to challenge, Search my integrity–Let God avenge The promise made with subtlety; This Stone witnessContinue reading “A Journey and a Struggle”
The Labor
by ST, 1980s Born one night– no room in the inn: crowded–every place filled full. The burden of the taxing: Payment must be made. The Only, the Humblest abode where the Lamb was kept: the Stable, the Christ was there born one night. Bourne one night in agony while others slept, a Man of constantContinue reading “The Labor”
In the Last Days, Before the New Arrival
by ST, in the 1980s From early spring, in the season of the Lamb, We waited for news from the distant land: How fares the Vineyard, shall the tree give the fig? When harvest time is here, shall ought fill the crib? The month of Julius, then Augustus, the days were wasted, To pregnant fields,Continue reading “In the Last Days, Before the New Arrival”
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