My God who Amazes me! The moon is full. Lighting tonight's clear sky like a Beacon in the darkness. "Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth below..." (1 Kings 8:23) My God who Adopts me! Our "pack" is back together tonight. Our adopted "pup cat" -- Skippy...
Here we go again, Lord... Packing up to head south -- back Home -- for the next seven months. We always know it's coming. We set the departure date weeks in advance. So how do we always end up running around like chickens without our heads??? :) Or, at least, I do. Maybe because...
All ten were... Untouchable. Unacceptable. Incurable. Incapable. Outlawed. Outcast. Desperate. Determined. "Jesus, Master, have pity on us!" (Luke 17:13) You, Lord... Heard. Heeded. Helped. Healed! "When He saw them, He said, 'Go, show yourselves to the priests.' And as they went, they were cleansed." (Luke 17:14) All ten were... Wide-eyed! Welcomed! Joyfully healed... in body. Obediently...
When did the world get so upside down, Lord? So... all turned inside out? "When the woman saw...and ate...and also gave some to her husband... and he ate..." (Genesis 3:6) OK, so it started way back then. But is it my imagination, Lord... or is it actually getting worse? When did Right become Wrong? And Wrong...
There are times when I dance JOY-fully in radiant SON-light, Lord! When I think of how far You have brought me! From pits beneath valley floors. Sometimes, to mountain plateaus... to see with Your eyes. More frequently, through those valleys... with You by my side. Loving me. Encouraging me. Carrying me, when my own strength was gone....
No phones. No TVs. No Internet. Two acres of green space. Surrounded by acres and acres of forest. Right in the middle of a bustling college town??? That's where I've been since Friday night, Lord. My City Oasis. No... Our City Oasis. Mine and my college suite mates'. Seven of us. At our third annual...
It finally happened! The drought has broken. The rains have come. Slow, steady, soaking rains. For twenty-four hours now. With more to come. It has been many weeks since it last rained. We are over four inches below normal for this time of year. It takes a lot of water to saturate hard, dry ground....
It was dark this morning. Dawn came, but the skies were overcast. Misty. Dense. Chilly. It felt (even inside me) like the "MONDAY of all Mondays." Maybe that's why all I could say was, "Oh, Lord..." Followed by a deep sigh. The culmination of days and weeks of physical pain that had ignited (and/or, perhaps, resulted from) some measure...
What he said stunned me, Lord. "I knew without a doubt that God had put me on Earth to paint." What stunned me the most was when he said this. He was only four years old! He's much older now. Late sixties? But the Dream You had placed in his heart so long ago is...
My cute stuffed lion sits on my desk here. A reminder of Aslan -- the representation of You, Lord, in the movie version of the C.S. Lewis classic, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. I look at this cuddly toy and I marvel, Lord. Because You, too, are cuddly. The Lord of the Universe... cuddly? In...
