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June 15, 2017 | Leave a Comment

Mephibosheth’s dad

Mephibosheth is hardly a household name. Thank goodness. Imagine the t-ball games with Mephibosheth at bat. “You got this, Meph!” Or little Mephibosheth rounding the bases. “Go, Shethie, go!”.

No, thankfully, Mephibosheth is not a household name. It’s a name that appears only briefly in scripture. Yet, his short story speaks volumes to us about the power of fathers to shape our lives for good.

Mephibosheth was the son of Jonathan and the grandson of Saul, [Read more…]

Family, God, Old Testament, Praise Tagged: 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, Father's Day, gratitude, Jonathan, King David, Mephibosheth


September 1, 2015 | Leave a Comment

A terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day

I arrived at my 7 a.m. meeting, wearing my sweater inside out. The wifi was down at church. The printer was jammed. The school nurse called; my daughter came home sick. The church credit card denied. The only person with the combination to the safe where we keep the church’s other card is out of town. The network at the college denied my password. The projector bulb in the lecture hall is burned out. A mosquito bit the back of my leg in three places in the time it took for me to read three verses of the Book of Isaiah where I was turning to try to get my bearings again.

It was terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

Or not.

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Praise, Psalms, Suffering Tagged: Bad days, mosquitoes, Psalm 18, Reinhold Niebuhr


This is the day that
the Lord has made;
let us rejoice
and be glad in it.

– Psalm 118:24
Rev. Dr. MJ Romano

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