Yesterday, Lord, You sent me to our little church... to walk around it and pray. I -- and others -- have been grieving for this small congregation. Watching its membership dwindle. Watching the concerns for its very survival rise like a flood tide. Before I started my prayer walk, I asked You to help me pray as...
Was it just yesterday, Lord, that the number 10,000 was so much on my mind? And my body??? :) I had no sooner uploaded my blog, "10,000 TONS," when I had to do a double-take. I had turned to the devotional guiding my 40-day season of prayer and fasting... and read this quote by A.W....
What a terrible place to be, Lord: Anyplace You are not present. I saw a documentary today by that name: "When God Left the Building." It was about a church building. Not just one, but many. Right here in our nation. The landscape of "organized" church is changing. This film referenced the rise of a...
Sometimes, Lord, You just take my breath away! And it isn't all "hot air"!!! :) Like this morning. I have begun a new season of prayer and fasting. Forty days of seeking You in new and deeper ways. I'm on "pins and needles"... feeling a great sense of anticipation. What are You going to...
It's hard to imagine, Lord. Can there really be Beauty beyond the brutality of betrayal? The friend I wrote about yesterday is still reeling from the pain of her "friend turned enemy." What the name for that? Frenemy? This particular "frenemy" doesn't know You, Lord... at least, not yet. She's lost. So it's no surprise that she's...
There's no "sugar coating" a betrayal. It leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Unless we submit to Your prescriptions, Lord. You are the Great Physician, after all. Great for whatever ails us. Even betrayal. A dear sister and I spent a lot of time with You today, Lord. Asking for Your help in making...
There are so many moments like that, Lord. Those "If Only I Had a Camera" moments. Like the one I had this morning. A neon-yellow gold finch flew from our bird feeder to the bird bath in our front yard. Bright yellow against the grey metal. Made brighter still by the cloudless, sunlit sky. A...
It's a joke. About a man who was "sizing You up," Lord. He asked, "How long is a million years to You?" You said, "A million years is like a second." The man then asked, "How much is a million dollars to You?" You answered, "A million dollars is like a penny." The man smiled and...
By Your Grace, Lord, I have lived in many places over the years. Very different kinds of places. Big cities. Small towns. And now? The Boonies. :) Where, today, Your Blessings have filled me to overflowing! Waking up to the sound of steady rainfall. Unhindered by man-made sounds of any kind. Vegetable seedlings poking up...
The skies were pale grey this morning. Or, at least, the dense cloud cover was. All the better to see the "wind chimes" You had placed forty feet off the ground, Lord. Two tall trees, side-by-side. One... a beech? The other, a poplar with its distinctive leaves. The beech stood stately and still. But the poplar? A...
