A Few Comments on The Creation

by Susan Ternyey, originally written in 2014 Its the beginning of a new year, perhaps a good time to contemplate our Beginning–Comment 1“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,and the Word was God.The same was in the beginningwith God.All things were made by him;and without him was not any thingContinue reading “A Few Comments on The Creation”

With Joy We Rise

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”

What Was “the Gospel” Jesus Preached?

by Susan Ternyey, March 2025 “. . . Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, And saying, The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.”Mark 1:14-15 This is recorded in Matthew and Mark after the Baptism and Temptation of Christ,Continue reading “What Was “the Gospel” Jesus Preached?”

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”

Grandma’s Gardens: A Parable of Life

by ST, 2019 A New Start A certain woman, a paralytic grandmother of 50, acquired a lot in a certain city, in a subdivision, with certain covenants. The lot appeared level, and was chosen for that reason. But by the time the foundation was dug and poured, it was no longer level, and required aContinue reading “Grandma’s Gardens: A Parable of Life”

The Coat of Arms

by Susan Ternyey, 1980s Far humbler than the poet whom I appeal As tutor, in aspiring to convey And ‘scribe in characters of the Ideal Those worthy merits, in this worldly fray, Which we would urge on any that we may– Most ‘specially our children and their own– That seem to us appropriate array ForContinue reading “The Coat of Arms”