Well, I did it--I sent in a book proposal to AMG Publishers. It's for a Bible study on Retirement:

Individualized
Retirement
Assignments
Seniors in Scripture

or IRAs for short.

I looked at seven seniors in the Bible and the assignments God gave them, then at how to apply the principles to our lives. 

Hope to hear soon--could be four months to process.
It's in God's hands.

I'm back.

Two years! Life's been keeping me busy. Still writing biweekly for www.Digdeeperdevotions.com.
I'm working on a book about retirement, a Bible Study. Hope I can send in the book proposal in May or June.

Maybe if I have short posts, I can write more often?? Anyway, that's all for now.

Studying Zechariah in order to write a devotion for www.digdeeperdevotions.com to be published next Thursday. This prophetic book is fourteen chapters full of Messianic prophecies. God will come to dwell with His people. Immanuel, God incarnate (2:10-13). He will remove their iniquity in one day: dying for their sins on the cross. His sacrifice will pay the debt of their sin (3:9). Others not now part of His people will be invited to sit under the vine and fig tree. Gentiles (3:10, 6:15).

The Messiah is described as The Branch (see also Jeremiah 23:5-6). He will be both priest and king (6:8; 11-13). He will be rejected, stricken, His followers scattered (11:12-13, 13:6-9).

But one day all nations will gather against Jerusalem and God will defend His people who have been refined as silver and tested as gold. They will look on the One they pierced and mourn as for an only child, a firstborn son (12:10).

New devotion on the website www.digdeeperdevotions.com today: Finding Hidden Treasure, God delighting, rejoicing, and singing!

Also check the Dig into Holidays section on the left of the page for some Thanksgiving devotions from past years.

I haven't been blogging, but I've been writing devotions for the website www.digdeeperdevotions.com
every other week. We've begun our series "Major themes of the minor prophets." I haven't written one on Jonah yet there, but I'll post a poem here that I wrote years ago.


Fleeing
from God

Silly Jonah
Turning his back,
Going the opposite direction,
as if he could flee
from God’s presence.

Silly Me
Closing my eyes
As if God couldn’t see me,
As I run away
from His presence.

Praise God
He never turns His back
He sends whatever it takes
To bring us back
into His presence.

The poem I posted may seem like a Christmas one, but I pulled it out of my collection as I was writing a devotion on Rosh Hashanah for the website www.Digdeeperdevotions.com. Known as the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah is a day of blowing of trumpets, shofars, a call to repentance to usher in Yom Kippur, the great day of Atonement which comes ten days later. The in-between days are called the Days of Awe, a time of acknowledging God's sovereignty, of repenting, doing good deeds, improving relationships, a day of asking G-d to remember His promises to His people.

Next Time

The first time He came
He was a tiny baby.
So few saw Him:
Some shepherds,
Wise men from afar.

But next time He comes
A trumpet will sound
Every eye will see him:
Those who eagerly await him,
And those who curse his name.

Not a baby next time!
Lord of Lords, King of Kings,
And the night will not be silent!
Nor will it be dark–God’s glory
Will shine all around!