The Mysterious Road to Jesus
I wonder though, how many times in my grief and burdens of life, I miss seeing Him or realizing He is with me because I am too centered on myself and my circumstances.
What if I just stayed in His presence all the time? What if I spent more time in prayer and communing with God? Would I have more peace in my life? Would I know Him when I saw Him?
Bookstore Wonderings
There are two places I get creative in the most. Bookstores and Chick-fil-A. Here’s my latest creation upon wandering around aimlessly in a bookstore recently. What gets your creative juices flowing? Is there a special place or room that helps you?
Where Have All My Words Gone?
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. Psalm 109:105
This poem is my song of lament to the Lord. I have tasted the dry dust of the desert the past few months, not able to find the “water of words” needed. Oh, don’t get me wrong. I have longed to sit and write, but I just couldn’t seem to find a creative bone in my body.
In all transparency though, it helps to drink of the Living Water. Something I have been struggling to do.
Hold On!
I know Winter is a cold time. Many of us hate the cold and can’t wait for it to be over. But what we must remember is, if it weren’t for death, there would be no life.
When Jesus allowed himself to be nailed to the cross to die for us, that my friends is when hope truly was poured out to us. Because without his death, he could not have risen from the dead and given us new life.
So, it’s in the newness of life we are saved. It’s in the newness of life, we have hope. Hope for a future. Hope for healing. Hope for love. Hope for whatever we need hope for.
A Quiet Respite
I think we often want God to speak to us directly, in the loudest way possible. We want to make sure we haven’t missed Him or His message to us. So, we look for Him through the thunder, lightning, earthquake, hurricane, tornado, and any other way in which our attention is immediately drawn to.
How often do we marvel at the sheer beauty of the day or the river just rambling along its way? Do we recognize God in the gazelle as she leaps or the bunny as it hops? Where do you see God in your day to day living?
The Ivy Door
This year feels a bit like a gift. Maybe a wonder. I’ve been opening it carefully, unwrapping one side at a time. Peeking inside, trying to figure out what God has for me this year to learn, to do, to be, and to go.
My word for this year is healing. Spiritually, physically, mentally. I turn 49 in a couple of months and I want to enter my next decade of life in a good space. As I prayed about this word and asked God what Bible verse might go with it, He led me to Isaiah 40:31.
ALL IS WELL ~ A New Year’s Eve Blessing
Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart, All you who hope in the Lord. Psalm 31:24
All is well, all is well
God has blessed beyond compare
Though trials came throughout the year
He’s been faithful to stay near.
Kindle My Heart
Dear Jesus, rekindle my heart for you. I want my mind renewed. Help me dear Lord, to focus on You, instead of the things of this world.
I think so often we forget this world is not our home. But who could blame us when it is all we’ve ever known?
I just want Your presence Lord,
Your love within my heart.
Hope Need Not Be Deferred
Hope begins when you stand in the dark
and look out at the light.
~The Christmas Train (Hallmark Movie)
Of all the things we need this year, it is hope.
Hebrews 11:1, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
Right now, I know we all are hoping for life to get back to some sort of normalcy. Often this year we have been told we need to adapt to this “new normal” for “unprecedented times”. And while we’ve all done the best we could to adapt, we quickly realized how much we didn’t want to.
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