The "Pensive Pastor" Posts

Posts in category The Plan

(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.)


Two Years after Christmas

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...

This Child

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...

The Man (1)

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...

From Eternity

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...