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Dear Reader– A faith-building thought for the day: Death reminds us that we are creatures.
Yet as fearsome as death is, it is nothing compared with meeting a holy God.
When we encounter him, the totality of our creatureliness breaks upon us and shatters the myth that we have believed about ourselves, the myth that we are demigods, junior-grade deities who will try to live forever.
RC Sproul
My prayer for you is that you will be overwhelmed by the holiness of God. Lord, you have been our dwelling place You return man to dust Psalm 90:1-3 And that in that overwhelm, you will draw near to know him in all He is…Because not only is He the holy God who made us. He took on flesh and came to redeem us from that inevitable death. And He remains as our place of refuge–our comfort, our dwelling place. God bless you, Darlene TO UNSUBSCRIBE from these 2025 Kickstarter REMINDERS (and the KS special bonus ALERTS) Click here |
Do Earwigs Climb into Ears?
From the Desk of Darlene N. Böcek Faith-building Sci-fi Fantasy Stories Reader**– Research can sometimes put you in a worse place. Let’s talk about the Earwig. The other day friends and I were discussing how REPULSED we are by earwigs. And we asked the common question–Do earwigs actually crawl into ears? Then we made the interesting observation. The earwig is called kulağakaçan in Turkish. That means the-one-that-runs-into-the-ear. We wondered why both Turkish and English uses practically…
