How the truths of Scripture change the way I live
I went out in the backyard to catch up on a little watering this morning. The sweet peas have risen like a curtain of green and delicate pinks and purples to hide the unsightly rickety fencing that surrounds the old chicken yard…Their fragrance is everything I remembered it to be when, daring to hope, I […]
Last week the question came up: What unfulfilled wants hinder me from being fully satisfied with God and worshipping Him with a joyful heart? In other words: What excuses do I make for postponing joy? I’ve been thinking about my strategy for getting what I want—prayer. And I’m asking myself just how long I am […]
If you’re happy and you know it…but nobody else can tell! Despite being married to a man who laughs every day, I’m a pretty serious somebody. Side-splitting laughter seldom shakes my frame (unless my sister’s at hand). Nor does the face brightening kind for that matter. If you’ve been reading my ‘columns’ here for long, […]
…it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant, and a song of praise is fitting. Ps.147:1 Morning. And with my feet landing on the floor came a nudge to remember to SING, to bless the Lord, to keep my focus there…I needed the reminder. I find it easy to obsess […]
“until Christ be formed in you…” Mary said ‘yes’ to the angel who announced she would give birth to God’s own Son, but there were still nine ordinary months of gestation before that baby would be born. Just as regeneration, being ‘born again’, is a work of the Spirit, so is growing in grace to […]