My husband brought back some compelling photos of Ethiopia this trip. While I was perusing them, this old Steve Fry song rose up in my spirit and ministered to me so much as I kept leafing through the pictures. I felt the Lord saying to me, “If you want to know me, then look at…
Tag: Faith
‘Drawing Down Graces’
I have been savoring Brother Lawrence’s book, “The Practice of the Presence of God,” and have been deeply impacted by its timeless message of spiritual intimacy through the mundane rituals of life. Yesterday morning this quote moved me to tears, ” … the trust we put in God honors Him and draws down great graces……
The Awe Factor
The heavens are doing a good job declaring the glory and awesomeness of a loving God without our help!
The End of All Words…
Through the years, I have done my fair share of counseling. The truth is this: It is not my favorite aspect of the ministry. I groan silently when I hear of someone becoming a counselor or actually majoring in counseling in college. Doesn’t that sound cold hearted and distant coming from a missionary… even worse…
Stars and Promises
When I consider the heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you ordained; What is man that you are mindful of him? For you have made him a little lower than the angels and crowned him with glory and honor. You made him to have dominion over the works of your hands, You placed all things under Your…
The Definition of Light
I relish a long afternoon alone–with my husband and daughter out of the house and the sun saturating the room with that special end-of-the-day kind of light, where the shadows are long and the minutes tick away leisurely as I enjoy a cup of tea, a book, or sometimes… nothing… doing just nothing. These long,…
The Faith of a Post-Modern Man
My parents on their 60th wedding anniversary last January. This is really sad but true. The word “faith” has a negative connotation in our culture today. On the network or cable channels, people of faith are portrayed as a guy in lime green pants with an orange plaid flannel shirt with a navy blue down…
haiku: silently
proof that You are real star, stem, stick, and sea signal that truth silently
Seeking…
We are back home in Texas. The flight was long and the best kind ever–uneventful. On the way home, Wayne and looked at all the photos I took over the last three months–hundreds of them! It was like enjoying our three months abroad–again! I had forgotten that I had snapped the above photo one afternoon…