It wasn’t the pending medical appointment that I was dreading so much as the necessity of my driving into the big city alone for the first time and finding the doctor’s office! I got up just a bit early and over toast and tea I opened the Word to my regular set of readings and […]
I had a hurried time in the Word one day this week, catching just a few snatches, a short Psalm, but even a few snatches are powerful when the Spirit applies them to the heart. I read Psalm 93: “The LORD reigns…the world is established; it shall never be moved…The floods have lifted up, O […]
The Lord is the refuge of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? Ps.27:1 I was struck this week by Nehemiah’s confident perseverance in the face of fear. He had undertaken a daunting project—the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem. He was surrounded by enemies opposed to this work. But he didn’t succumb to […]
Once again my worst fears have not been realized. The long deliberated, long awaited, long dreaded surgery is history. I did not die from the anesthesia. I am not blind. I am not even in pain. The sun is shining and I am home with orders to put in antibiotic eye drops 3x a day […]