Spring of Hope

Buy my book   " Joy in the Journey " on Amazon now 20% goes to missions               Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here   While You Wait A woman's car stalled in traffic. She looked in vain under the hood to identify the cause, while the driver behind her leaned relentlessly on his horn. Finally she had enough. She walked back to his car and offered sweetly, "I don't know what the matter is with my car. But if you want to go look under the hood, I'll be glad to stay here and honk for you."  Patience and waiting are becoming rare commodity in the modern world.  Waiting is hard to do, especially on the highways.  We all learned a lesson or two about patience and waiting during the last year or more since the pandemic hit the world.   In Acts 1,  we see that the resurrected Christ appears to the disciples and asks them to wait. “Do not leave Jerusalem, but stay in the city and wait for the gift my Father promised, wh

Buy my book   " Joy in the Journey " on Amazon now 20% goes to missions               Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here   A Comforting Companion The Journey to Emmaus story given in Luke 25:13-35 is one of Luke's most exquisite narratives. It describes the encounter on the road to Emmaus and the supper at Emmaus, and states that a disciple named Cleopas was walking towards Emmaus with another disciple when they met Jesus. They did not recognize him, and discussed their sadness at recent events with him. They persuaded him to come and eat with them, and at the meal they recognized him. Luke is the only one of the four gospel writers to include this story. It is a story that reveals to us not only something about who we are, but how the scripture opens our eyes to see Jesus for who He is and about how we can come to know Him. As followers of Jesus of Nazareth, Cleopas and his friend had been to Jerusalem during that tragic Passover