Why You Never Stop Being Needed
The plan was supposed to be that we would take him west. That he’d turn 18 and go west. That we’d pack up his room, his dog-earred G.A. Henty books,…
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when you are looking for His steadying hand
That is what came at the end. At the end of the day, after the pots soaked in the sink and the books and the remnants of the day stacked…
Simply Stilled
Because the knowing Him on paper needs to lead to knowing Him in person. Because one is only onto superficiality. And the other alone onto salvation. :: :: He…
Journaling as a Spiritual Discipline: An Act of Prayer
This is praying time, and the act of listening in prayer is the same act as listening in writing.” ~Madeleine L’Engle I read Scripture. I listen. I pray. I pick…
Table Talk
We lay ours aside, the words that normally fill our mouths, and sit around the table, slipping our forks under squash from our dirt, meat from our barns, and we…
Snapshots of Grace
Great is the LORD and most worthy of praise;his greatness no one can fathom. One generation will commend your works to another;they will tell of your mighty acts. They will…
The Lord enjoys to hear it…
Those thick Dutch fingers, farm worn and time-tested, have pecked again, one small key at a time, pressed send. Good morning, all, Yes checking how it is with you all,…
Come in from the Cold…
Winter winds blast and the Branch holds me and I forget not all His benefits, just, sadly, too many, when I was formed just for that, to bless the Lord,…
Inked in Green: Nature Table
“God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.” ~Martin Luther So we go out and gather it all up…. and…
All Decked Out
verses from Psalm 5, a morning Psalm…. “Listen, Yahweh! Pay attention!Can you make sense of these ramblings,my thunder-clap cries?King-god, I need your help. Every morningyou’ll hear me at it again.Every…
Psalm in Pocket
Visit “Of Poets and Saints” for the why of “The Psalm in my Pocket”…. “Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving and raise a loud shout to him with…
Psalm in my Pocket
Visit “Of Poets and Saints” for the why of “The Psalm in my Pocket”…. “Let us come before his presence with thanksgivingand raise a loud shout to him with psalms.’…
The Psalm in my Pocket…
Visit “Of Poets and Saints” for the why of “The Psalm in my Pocket”….Posting today’s Psalm in the Pocket…. Ps. 16:1, 5, 9-11 (MSG) “…O God, I’ve run for dear…
The Psalm in the Pocket of my Heart
The Psalm I’ve tucked in the pocket of my heart today… O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above…
