Even There
Father God, I come into your presence so aware of my human frailty and yet overwhelmed by your love for me. I thank you that there is no human experience that I might walk through where your love cannot reach me. If I climb the highest mountain you are there and yet...
No Prompt Friday
Today is Friday. I usually join in with Lisa Jo and do her Five Minute Friday link up. Except today there is no prompt. No link up. In the few minutes it took for me to figure this out, I also came to realize how much I look forward to this one word prompt each...
A Battle Worth Fighting
My children are each raised and married, one now with children of her own. They each turned out good, in spite of our many imperfections as parents. We were young ourselves when we first became parents, just twenty four years old. There was no way we could have been...
Make Us Willing
Trouble. It can just seem to find us at times. Trouble, as defined by dictionary.com --> disturbing our mental calm and/or contentment; inconvenience; pains; annoyance. Based on that definition, we all can experience some sort of trouble on any given day. "God is...
Memorial: The Mystery of Mary of Bethany
At times, I can become familiar with a story and in thinking I know it, completely miss what may lie just beneath the surface facts. There are truths in Scripture which are meant to be mined; we need to dig a bit to find the treasure hidden in the well known stories....
I Can See Clearly
For much of my life, I had better than 20/20 vision. Reading glasses entered my life at some point. And then ... mono vision. I now wear contacts, with two different strengths, enabling my right eye to be able to read and see up close; my left to see in the distance....