Ministering Sisters

            The meaning of talent has changed through the centuries. In Biblical times it was a measure of weight of 75.6 pounds. King David’s crown weighed one talent. (See 2 Samuel 12:30 .) Can you imagine a neck that could support 75 pounds? We may in the future experience what it feels like to be hit with a talent. Revelation 16:21 prophesies that before the great battle of Armageddon a mighty hailstorm will occur “every stone about the weight of a talent.” On August 8, Delta flight 1889 made an emergency landing after baseball-size hailstones hit it. The largest hailstone on record hit Vivian, South Dakota in 2010. It was eight inches in diameter and weighed not quite two pounds. Makes you wonder what the diameter of a 75.6-pound hailstone will be. Look out below!             In Jesus’ time, a talent was a measure of money equal to 20 years of wages for the common worker or $666,000. That is how much the Lord in the Pa...

            “Everything has to come to an end, sometime,” said L. Frank Baum who wrote “The Wizard of Oz.” Mr. Baum’s famous story tells of Dorothy who is homesick for Kansas. He ends the story happily when, after many adventures, Dorothy wakes up in her own bed and says, “There’s no place like home.”             Some endings are predictable. When you start a book, you know it will have a last page. When you begin a movie, you know it will have a final scene. Some endings are gradual like the changing of seasons and the almost imperceptible reality that today you are a day older than yesterday.             “Everything has to come to an end, sometime,” including summer vacation. For some mothers of school-age children, the end of summer brings what could be called end-of-summer blues. These moms begin to feel gloomy as the fun and freedom of summer wind down. Summer is exhilarating for them. Other...