My ‘R’ word today is ‘Rainbow’.  God gave us His rainbow to “be the sign of the covenant between (God) and the earth.”  Now, I always think about when my daughter told God during our nightly prayers that she wanted to see a rainbow the next day.  During the next day, when we picked her up from school, there was a double rainbow in the sky above the school’s exit.  It was awesome, and for years has helped to reinforce in her that God hears her.

I saw this video today and was blown away by the faith of North Korean Christians.  Evangelism-through-tied-chair, thankfully, was not how my daughter got to know God.  Let us remember the Koreans, North & South, as we pray for our brothers and sisters around the world.

Today’s word was ‘Quenchless’, as in God’s love for us never dims, John 3:16.  In thinking on His Love, I saw this video of missionaries that went to the “Forgotten Islands” of South Asia, where the people had never heard of Jesus, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKFr5wWIc1A&t=281s.  Even for the places that have, all it takes is for one generation to not tell the next about Jesus to become like the “Forgotten Islands”.

Today’s word was ‘Proprietor’, Isaiah 64:8-type of reference, only I am the Real Estate property and He is The Proprietor.  I found myself wondering down the rabbit hole of Proverbs 23:7 and realized like in the movie, “Hondo, ‘Swimming Lesson'”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIJrIuLwjM8, the kid made his own definition of himself as someone who can’t swim.  This was then ratified by the boy’s mother, but after a quick assessment by John Wayne’s character, it was time to change that way of thinking.

Proverbs tends to leave people where they are at, a muddied fountain and a polluted spring, etc. Proverbs 25:26.  Should we be left to the limits of ourselves in our minds, we would mimic those in America.  They show their inheritance of madness to the world as they seek to live out fleeting desires.

I then turned to Ephesians 5:8.  Praise the Lord, we are children of Light!  We see that we are not left as polluted springs.  For Jesus lead the Samaritan woman from that life to one that gushed forth Living Water, John 4:4–42.  Jesus again, using a Samaritan, marked the change in his parable of ‘the Good Samaritan’ Luke 10:30-37.

John Wayne’s character ‘threw the baby into the (bath) pond water’ and taught him to swim.  That boy changed his mind from limiting thoughts to those that would forever change his story.  Jesus took it even a step further than merely learning to swim, Matthew 14:25-33.  Like Peter, if we keep our eyes on Jesus, He may lead us to walk on water.

“There is no spoon.”

‘Peripatetic’ was today’s word.  It helped me to think of Jesus walking around with His disciples while teaching them about the Kingdom.  I then looked up about Franciscan monks because they are an example to me of what modern day peripatetic followers are like.  I stumbled on †friar Mark Weaver’s obituary and read about how others remembered him.  Although I never got the opportunity to meet him, †friar Weaver obviously left a cruciform mark on those he did.

In Loving Memory †friar Mark Weaver