With all the extra crazy in our world, and quite frankly, in my own life, I’ve been meditating more than ever on the beauty of Psalms 23 and the unchanging promise of the Good Shepherd. Over the next several months I thought it would be good to revisit the power hidden within the comfort of …
“… beside the still waters.” (Psalms 23:3) Dear Friends, Led. Conducted. Protected. Sustained. By Christ. To where? Still water. A place of rest. A place of peace. A place of nourishment. Safe. Pure. Satisfying. Life giving. He, the source of life and fountain of living waters, accomplishes all that is necessary to bring us to …
“He maketh me to lie down in green pastures…” Ps. 23:2a Dear Friend, He maketh me… Those three words can sound harsh. Abrasive. Controlling. And in our independence-driven society the concept of ANYONE forcing us to do ANYTHING is anathema. Even if it is for our good. It’s easy to fall for the misconception touted …
They weren’t supposed to grow. It was one of those years for us. Although my husband offered, I passed on spending one cent on beautifying my back patio with flowers and living things. I wanted to, but everything else in life felt like a barren, stark, thirsty, hungry, parched land. For years our resources have …
Ben (my husband): “I have never regretted asking you to be my wife.”Me: “Really? Even when I embarrassed you so bad you were kicking me under the table?”Ben: “Well…there are days I celebrate it a little less enthusiastically…”???? Only Ben could put it like that ?
Kalli (my seven yr old): “Mamma – you are the BEST mom!”Me, glowing: “Thank you, Sweetie.”If she was going to make my day, she should have just stopped there – but in five seconds she continued…Kalli: “…even if you aren’t NORMAL – you are still the best.”Me, no longer glowing: “Thank you.” (I think??????)Kalli: “Besides, …
“Great peace have they which love Thy law: and nothing shall offend them.” (Psalms 119:165) This verse has long intrigued me. Not only because of the desirable promise of the elusive maiden called “Peace,” but also because of the high threshold of proof that confirms one has indeed a true love of God’s law and …
“My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.” (James 1:2-4) From the time I was small, I remember the pulpit joke that went something like this …
“I waited patiently for the Lord; and He inclined unto me, and heard my cry. “He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. “And He hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our …
(“Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ. And be found in Him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the …