February always brings celebration for our family — a daughter’s birthday, our anniversary. In our morning devotional time, we pause for celebrations…anything in the last few days which deserves a shout out. The kids’ comments run the scope from I’m so glad I found my shoe! to other thoughts as I did well on my essay....
con.va.lesce :: to recover one’s health and strength over time similar words :: recuperate, get better, get well, get back on one’s feet :: :: She came to me recently, this church sister. Right in the middle of all-church campfire activities, kids running, people laughing, coffee brewing. The annual celebration we all anticipate. In the...
We speak often of being at peace… having peace :: wanting it, seeking it. Have we considered also simply being peace? I’ve been thinking on this lately, how Peace lives in me. How a God of perfect calm chooses to make residence in this sometimes chaotic and restless soul of mine. He chose this —...
“Do not look down on the small amount of work done so far…” (Zechariah 4:10) *** We’re not a society content on waiting, on taking things slowly. I want idea birthed today to be reality tomorrow. Or tonight. I am impatient within. Small steps, patient movement is not to be despised or thought less of...
We speak of creating time… but really, time has already been created. It’s a finite gift at our disposal, an offering from One who is timeless. From He who has no need for hours and days, minutes and moments. He fills all of time, beginning to end. And we are given a slice. A blessing...
Jesus is coming. We find ourselves between the Advents :: his first humble entrance and his second triumphant return. Yet in this place, He still comes. Daily Christ makes his way, hoping to make more known to us who He is, why He came, what He is about doing — in us, through us, around...
