This time of the year the weather normally turns colder.  We move from being able to go outside in a T-shirt, to donning sweat-shirts and coats.  When we enter the home of a friend, they will often say, “Take off your coat and make yourself at home.”  I do not particularly like wearing a coat.  I don’t like the bulky …

“As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. [42:2] My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God” (Psalm 42:1-2)?  I can easily picture a deer that has been running through the woods all day long, searching for a cool stream from which to …