Were You laughing as hard yesterday as we were, Abba? In light of the head-shaking, mind-boggling, body-challenging difficulties we were encountering in our Once-in-a-Decade Adventure? Life at the margin. That's where we were yesterday. "Margin: a bare minimum below which or an extreme limit beyond which something becomes impossible or is no longer desirable." (Merriam-Webster Online...
I love seeking You in the early morning hours, just before dawn. Before the pace of the day has a chance to shift into fifth gear. Before the world wakes up. When it seems like it's just You and me in the silence... and I can hear, "see" and even feel You. I seek You this morning,...
Sometimes I wonder. Why does cancer -- or any illness (life-threatening or not) -- hit some people and not others? Would faith "as small as a mustard seed" prevent a Christian from ever getting sick? Would faith "as small as a mustard seed" prevent a Christian from dying of anything other than "natural causes?" Did...
Some walls are meant to be... others are not. You had me camped out in the book of Nehemiah this morning, reading about the rebuilding of the walls around Jerusalem after the long exile of the Israelites in Babylon. Before I began to read out loud, I prayed that You would use Your Word this morning...
You and Paul Harvey must be having a good chuckle together! The kind of joy that two people share when they know a third one they love is discovering, step-by-step, the Surprise they have prepared. When "the rest of the story" is sill far off, because the joy is in The Journey. I was emailing...
Heart of My Heart, Once again, You have so filled me with Your Living Water that it has overflowed from my eyes... in tears of JOY! I just got off the phone with a newly-found Sister-in-Christ. I met her ever-so-briefly several weeks ago, at a Christian street outreach. She had helped organize the beautiful event...
You are the ROCK on which I stand... and the One who ROCKS my world! I heard a wonderful quote recently. It was attributed to John Piper in his book, The Pleasure of God: "God takes great delight in putting His Name at stake in your destiny." Wow. That really rocked my world! Could it...
This morning, You spoke -- as You often do -- through a whisper that "sounded" in my spirit more like a shout. An Encouraging Word. A Call to Arms. I was on the floor, on my knees... then on my back, looking out my window at the sky above. The dark clouds in the sky...
I saw today how war can be just one heartbeat away. We drove to Fredericksburg to exchange a piece of broken furniture for its new replacement. We pulled into the parking lot behind the retailer and parked between the only two other cars there. As we got out and moved to the rear of our truck, I saw...
What a roller coaster of a day! This morning, in the pre-dawn hours, I was acknowledging the reality -- the ferocity -- of the enemy's activities in our day... AND rejoicing in Your precious promises to see us through. Your precious promises to accomplish what would be impossible in our own strength. I was crying out...
