Month: July 2023

Yep, more questions. Psalm 103: 6-12 AMPC 6 The Lord executes righteousness and justice [not for me only, but] for all who are oppressed.7 He made known His ways [of righteousness and justice] to Moses, His acts to the children of Israel.8 The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and plenteous in mercy and loving-kindness.9 He will not always chide or be contending,…

“God loves us NOT because we’re lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.” C. S. Lewis This song has been in my head all week. God is doing it again, supplying my need at the perfect moment.

Here are some thoughts from the book, The Furious Longing of God, by Brennan Manning. It always amazes me when my “random” reading turns out to be something I really need to know. ********** “The revolutionary thinking that God loves me as I am and not as I should be requires radical rethinking and profound…

I would hurry to my place of shelter,    far from the tempest and storm.” Psalm 55:8 NIV My son was outside playing as a summer storm mumbled its approach. Still pretty far away, I thought. But suddenly there was a close crash of thunder. The door flew open as small boy hurtled his way in and…

The Lord appeared to us in the past. He said,“I have loved you with a love that lasts forever.    I have kept on loving you with a kindness that never fails. Jeremiah 31:3 NIRV “There is a tremendous relief in knowing that {God’s} love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the…

When I was very small, I spent a lot of time at my grandparents’ apartment in Chicago. I must have been about 3 when this happened. Granny and Paw Paw’s home was not particularly child friendly. I remember it being fairly elegant, with porcelain figurines on various tables. On this occasion, I had made myself…

“A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I’m not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me.” Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers ********** The…

A friend of mine, who had actually met and talked with Corrie Ten Boom, told me this story. ********** Corrie Ten Boom would come out with a heavy suitcase. She would hoist it onto a table and begin to pray. “Dear Father,” she said, as she lifted out a book and placed it on the…

“It will be celebrated with pomp and parade, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.” John Adams You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4th,not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and…

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,    the people he chose for his inheritance. Psalm 33:12 NIV ********** On July 3, 1947, the day before Independence Day, U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall prayed: God of our Ancestors, whose almighty hand has made and preserved our nation; grant that we may understand what it is we commemorate and celebrate…