The Lord hears his people when they call to him for help. He rescues them from all their troubles. Psalm 34:17 (NLT) Speaking of deteriorating houses: Last month, I found a wet spot on the ceiling. My upstairs neighbor’s sink was leaking. The plumber came: all fixed. All good. We thought. As I waited for the insurance claim to…
Category: God Sightings
Seeing God in the Everyday
House …
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. Ralph Waldo Emerson I take great pleasure in housekeeping. Cleaning, tidying and organizing touch something deep inside me. I’ve taken gentle…
Praise Him! Hallelujah!
How else can one respond to such a great God?
Glory!
“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.” Isaiah 6: 1-3 New International Version (NIV) “The whole earth is full of His glory.” I pause at those words on a gray, rainy day, the kind of day I rarely associate with glory. Yet that is what the angels are continuously singing before the…
More Than Enough Bread
For years we attended a church where the Breaking of Bread service was the main gathering of the week. Every Sunday, after a time of singing and testimony, communion was celebrated with a loaf of homemade yeast bread. The loaf, broken in half, was passed through the pews. Each participant pinched off a small piece…
Right Where He Wants Us
Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It’s God’s gift from start to…
Persistence
In November of 1994, I started working through the book, Six Weeks to a Simpler Lifestyle by Barbara Degrote-Sorensen and David Allen Sorenson. This is what I wrote in my journal that first week. Persistence in spite of pitfalls. Nothing worthwhile can be accomplished without it. I have picked the most difficult time of year…
Someone You Should Know…
Amy Carmichael Amy Carmichael (16 December 1867 – 18 January 1951) was a missionary to India where she opened an orphanage. She served for 55 years without furlough and wrote many books about her service. Her words seem very appropriate to what we face these days. ********** Let us not be surprised when we have…
More Bits & Pieces
(Things I gleaned from my reading, although I don’t usually remember where I read it) Science has determined that both incivility and kindness are contagious. Like a virus, they’re transmitted from one person to the next. If we experience rudeness or kindness — even if we only witness them — we will tend toward that…
CoVid Shopping, update
On May 5 I wrote about the new way to grocery shop. It has been a real learning experience. In my first online order, I wanted 3 packets of bacon bits. I got 3 boxes (15 packets)! In the first local order, I ordered 5 pounds of rice. I got 10 pounds for the same…