In the words of Mother Teresa, I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world. I don’t claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does the thinking. He does…
Category: God Sightings
Seeing God in the Everyday
A Perfect Fit
“That which fits together perfectly.” Sounds like a God thing. And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son…
That 1st Lie
God can make good use of all that happens, but the loss is real. C. S. Lewis “We’ve fallen for the devil’s lie. His most basic strategy, the same one he employed with Adam and Eve, is to make us believe that sin brings fulfillment. However, in reality, sin robs us of fulfillment. Sin doesn’t…
A Choice
“Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities.It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend…when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our livesbut are grateful for the abundance that’s present—love, health, family, friends, work,the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us…
Living Abundantly
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. Tom Waits ********** Fear of the future makes people settle for things in the present that completely defy Abundant Life. Beth Moore ********** Not what we have but what we enjoy,…
More “Abundance”
How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.They feast on the abundance of your house; you give them drink from your river of delights.For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light. Psalm 36:7-9 NIV The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too…
Petunias
… Consider the lilies of the field … Matthew 6:28 KJV Last spring, we went out to select some annuals for our garden. We were shopping by color, looking to find complements to our yellow and purple perennials. We chose salvia and petunias. I had forgotten, though, how much the rabbits love petunias. In a…
Queen Elizabeth II
There is – and will continue to be – a lot written and said about Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, and her life, but one thing stands out to me: She did her job. “When I was 21, I pledged my life to the service of our people and I asked for God’s help to make good…
Just about “Enough” …
“The longer I live, the more I read,the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire,the less I seem to know…Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough.”John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams O God, I beg two favors from you … First, help me never to tell a lie. Second,…
Happiness
“Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.”Tryon Edwards (American Theologian, 1809-1894)