When I pray, you answer me, and encourage me by giving me the strength I need. Psalm 138:3 TLB I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him. Francois Rabelais Hear…
Month: August 2021
Signs in the Garden
Prayer in a Garden
by Bert Hinckley Quite a bit of me is notWorth keeping, Lord, and You could blotWhole sections out and and I be none the worseScrap them without diminishing Your universeOne jot. Aid me to nurture what You can approveAnd help it grow and smother all the weedsThat You find hateful, and I cannot love,So that…
The Weed
Outside my window are two hummingbird feeders. I love to see those exquisite birds perch and take their time. Do they feel safe as they drink the sugar-water? I smile every time they visit. A week ago, I noticed a slender vine with arrowhead leaves climbing the shepherd’s hook. A google search suggests that this…
Easy Road
There are two paths before you; you may take only one path. One doorway is narrow. And one door is wide. Go through the narrow door. For the wide door leads to a wide path, and the wide path is broad; the wide, broad path is easy, and the wide, broad, easy path has many, many people on…
Danger All Around
One day last week, I set out to do some work outside. “I’m going to get on the ladder and hope I don’t fall off,” I jokingly told Jenna. “The best way not to fall off a ladder,” she replied, “Is not to get on it in the first place.” She’s not wrong. The same…
August
August (the word) “Marked by majestic dignity or grandeur.” (from the Merriam-Webster dictionary) August (the month)In 8 B.C. the Roman Senate honored Augustus Caesar, the first Roman emperor, by changing the name of their month “Sextilis” to “Augustus.” ********** As Sunday is a restful pause before commencing the work week, August is the pause before…