(A series of essays "imagining" what Bible events looked like in real life!
Once a few more have been posted they will be set in Bible/chronological order.)
Posted on 22 Apr 2025 in category The Plan by The Pensive Pastor
Shabbat had ended at sunset the previous evening and immediately three of the women had dashed to the market and bought the myrrh and other embalming spices they needed. Praise to Adonai, the wealthy Tzaddick Yussef of Ramatayim had paid... Read more...Posted on 22 Apr 2025 in category The Plan by The Pensive Pastor
For two days (in the Roman reckoning) the eight soldiers that made up a contubernium had sat and complained, as soldiers do, at the pointlessness of their task. As Roman soldiers, however, they had not questioned for one second the... Read more...Posted on 21 Apr 2025 in category The Plan by The Pensive Pastor
In the temple, flies gathered round body parts of the first sacrificial lambs of the day and worshippers filled all the courts of the Jewish sanctuary as light turned to unexpected dark [1]. The timetable for the sacrifices that remembered... Read more...Posted on 1 Jan 2025 in category The Plan by The Pensive Pastor
Miriam sat with two other women outside her small house and watched their children playing dustily together in the warm afternoon sun while they took a break from the daily chores of living a humble life in a small Judean... Read more...Posted on 21 Dec 2024 in category The Plan by The Pensive Pastor
She knew the time was close. The birthing pains had started in the early evening and were beginning to come more frequently. Between spasms of pain the girl thought back over the events of the past year.It had all... Read more...Posted on 24 Nov 2024 in category The Plan by The Pensive Pastor
With his first shuddering breath came strange sensations... smells... sounds... feeling... a sense of colour and light... although there were as yet no words to describe these things.Something touched... soft and yielding yet persistent and nudging... and the man... Read more...Posted on 10 Sep 2024 in category The Plan by The Pensive Pastor
They had always been. No created angel could say how long that was because each of them had their own beginning within eternity; beings that sprang from the creativity of endless, measureless love.They had always dwelt in unending and... Read more...