Yesterday, Lord, You gave me words from A to Z. Words that honored numerous aspects of Your countless qualities. But there’s another way to “hallow” Your name… isn’t there, Lord? Today, You whispered: ‘Choose one and soak in it.’ The one You put before me was BEAUTY. I love the reference cited at dictionary.reference.com: Beauty = …
How do You do it, Lord? Make every encounter with You so very different?! Like this morning. As I drew near to You, I whispered from my heart, “How would You like me to ‘hallow’ Your name this morning, Lord?” It is, after all, how You said we should pray: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be …
We made our way to the mountain ridge today. Or, at least, we tried to. The path was totally overgrown… as if it had never been there before. So we got out the tools. The hand-held, gas-powered Bush Hog. The long-handled snips. The hand-held pruning shears. And we made our way up the mountain, like …
I hadn’t planned to go there today. But You apparently had, Lord. Because that’s where You took me… first thing this morning. “I will continue to rejoice, for I know that through your prayers and God’s provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ what has happened to me will turn out for my deliverance.” (Philippians …
As I entered into Your Presence this morning, Lord — consciously, deliberately, joyfully, expectantly — You immediately brought a song to my mind: “How Great Thou Art.” So I played it. “When I, in awesome wonder, consider all the worlds Thy hands have made… I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder… Thy power …
The last night on our two-week trip, we stayed at an RV campground with cable TV. For the first time in two weeks, TV news and other programming was invading my Cocoon of Silence. The Cocoon where You and I had spent so many precous and peaceful hours together, Lord. Noise Pollution. Is it just one …
We are back home now, in our bike riding “Comfort Zone.” We went out to do our normal 8.5 mile ride today. But something was different… We were different! While we were in Canada, we had broken our previous distance record by two miles, going a total of 10.4 miles! We hadn’t planned it. We …
This was a first. An “Emergency Communicaton” from the National Weather Service. I had been listening to some distant thunder when I heard the phone ring. I saw that emergency message on the Caller ID before I answered the call. The automated warning gave me goosebumps. “The National Weather Service has just issued a Code Red …
Our vegetable garden looks like a war zone. Except the “troops” that moved through it were of the four-legged kind. Bears, no doubt. The fencing is mangled, crushed out of shape. Our sweet, Silver Queen corn? Totally gone. The stalks are all smashed flat to the ground. The ears? Stuffed into one or more bear …