Entries by Amanda Petersen

The Marvelous Message of the Messiah

I hope you’ve had a marvelous few days filled with good gatherings.  Whether it be this past week or weekend (or a combination of both), I hope you were able to make it home or get together with friends and family.

A Treasure Kept in Jars Like Us

I remember the side-street in Jerusalem.  There was a tourist shop where I bought for my grandmother two pictures: they were painted wall art made from a plaster depicting the Jerusalem skyline. 

From Storm to Shelter

When it rains it pours.  It certainly literally did yesterday.  When you hear that you may think of scenarios where you have said it or thought?

Hearing the Voice of the Lord

In “The Emperor’s New Clothes”, a children’s fable made famous by Hans Christian Anderson, a pair of dishonest weavers are able to convince the king that they made a fabric so incredible and so special and so splendid that only “wise people” are able see the clothes.

We Are Those Dry Bones!

The foot bone’s connected to the ankle bone; the ankle bone’s connected to the leg bone; the leg bone’s connected to the knee bone; the knee bone’s connected to the thigh bone; O hear the Word of the Lord!”