As I turned to the Scriptures one draggy, hollow-feeling morning, I was searching for a steadying hand and a word to give purpose for just doing the next thing. My own strength is rarely sufficient to get me out of bed. I read Psalm 46, and my heart was refreshed by the picture of a […]
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures, He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness, for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, […]
The God who sees me. I was alone in the car and feeling the utter aloneness sink deep into my spirit. It was perhaps the most alone I’ve felt – with burdens my own to carry, persistent sickness, spiritual weariness, exhausted from long and tiring (sometimes aimless-feeling) days, while my husband was overseas. I sat […]
“We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on You.” On the day he heard the alarming news that a great multitude was coming up against him from Edom, King Jehoshaphat stood in the house of the Lord. With the people of Judah and Jerusalem together and fasting with him, he prayed, […]
“Oh, how abundant is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you and worked for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of the children of mankind!” – from Psalm 31
(found here) this has sooo been my struggle this week. ugh. i feel too tired to do things, then frustrated about things undone, or half-done. trying to let God set my priorities trying to be content with being less than perfect… …in my housekeeping, in my friendships & even in my own skin. trying to […]
my tulips opened up yesterday…! In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul. – Psalm 94:19
“And the word of the LORD was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision…” 1 Samuel 3:1 I’ve been reading from 1 Samuel for devotions lately. This phrase struck me and rolled around my mind for a few days. It’s a painful and sad thing to feel distance from someone you love. How important […]
Autumn at our house is a fresh venison meal made by the hunter himself It’s an evening spent on the porch with a fire and guitar, singing “Knowing You” together. It’s a fall piano-scape with flowers from the mother in law… It’s a sleepless night with a crying baby whose first tooth is arriving… And […]
So a few weeks after {mostly} sweet baby K was born, I started keeping a journal for her. One day it will be a gift for her from me {when I write in it I often feel like I’m dying and writing her my last words of love and instruction…lol my mind just goes to […]
