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Invisible Supernatural Bodyguards
Tonight I went to a new weekly meetup organized by my church community. There I met a kind, shy girl named Anne. We ended up chatting some more after the meetup until fairly late, being almost the last to leave by past 10 p.m. As we exited the building, we noticed a group of hooligans coming up our alleyway. Two young men, seemingly immigrants, who were clearly drunk and were hollering around rather loudly. This triggered Anne’s social anxiety rather badly and she was noticeably starting to panic. I, on the other hand, was almost unusually calm. Without a second thought I offered to accompany her to her bike, which…
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An Unexpected Healing Miracle
As it so happened at the gym yesterday, and coordinationally challenged as I am, I accidentally injured myself by slipping on a yoga machine and crashing my left knee onto a thinly padded metal bar – ouch. So much ouch, that I walked around with a slight limp today as to avoid the pain flares from what felt would turn into a formidable bruise. Especially the stairs at work had turned into my archenemy of the day. Of course, I took the opportunity to mope about it at God, telling Him about the annoying pain that dared to plague me on this fine day. As usual, He only lovingly responded…
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Devotional: Ruth & Mary
I was on the bus heading to downtown Salzburg for our church’s weekly youth group bible study meetup, when I suddenly and out of nowhere started thinking about Ruth and Mary (the Mary). Two women with undeniably significant, if not monumental biblical importance, who ended up playing major, even historical roles in the very lineage of Christ Jesus Himself. And in my old nature’s still persistent, almost obsessive desire to be ‘special’ for God—perhaps even just as famous as these two women—I thought to myself, “Wow, what did they do to be bestowed such a great calling on?” As if they had ‘earned’ it. Surely they must have done something…
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