For me, there are several signs of spring: *Daylight Saving Time leaves me a grouchy mess.Check. It takes about a week to reset my internal clock. (sigh) *The spring bulbs start to come up.Check: I already see little green shoots. *The mallards return.Check: Each year a pair of mallard ducks visit the bird feeders in…
Category: A Faith in Process
Notes from the Journey
Contentment
Nine Requisites for Contented Living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough…
More Than
We are all more than a fragment of time in our lives.” I pulled this sentence from an article in the Washington Post. The author had followed three elderly people for some time to write a story about their relationships. When the article was finished, however, she remained in touch, because they were more than…
Supply
(From my Journal dated 5/8/18) Jenna was invited to go to Champaign over Memorial Day weekend to play bridge with some of her long-time friends. She agreed to go, figuring it would cost about $300. I felt that it was something she really should do, but with property taxes just around the corner, knew I…
Psalm 28: 6-9
6 I praise you, Lord, for answering my prayers.7 You are my strong shield, and I trust you completely.You have helped me, and I will celebrate and thank you in song. 8 You give strength to your people, Lord, and you save and protect your chosen ones.9 Come save us and bless us. Be our shepherd and always carry us in…
Lost and Found
Jesus did not give the parables to teach us how to live. He gave them, I believe, to correct our notions about who God is and who God loves. Philip Yancey Parable of the Lost Sheep Even with 100 sheep, the Shepherd immediately realized one was missing. Perhaps it had been distracted, wandered away, or…
It’s Daylight Savings Time!
This is the weekend that it all begins – or ends, depending on how you look at it. At 2 AM Saturday night, “spring ahead” by setting your clocks forward one hour. (I actually knew someone who set and alarm and got up at 2 AM to change the clocks. Personally, I do it sometime…
Psalm 27, Part 2
The one thing I want from God, the thing I seek most of all, is the privilege of meditating in his Temple, living in his presence every day of my life, delighting in his incomparable perfections and glory. There I’ll be when troubles come. He will hide me. He will set me on a high…
Confidence
If God were not Omnipotent, then would it fall to meTo hold the stars in heaven and the water in the sea?To bring the summer sunshine and cause everything to grow,To dress the trees for autumn and then send the winter snow?But if He has sufficient strength to keep the stars in line,Then surely He…
Re-Minding
Last week, when I was so full of grief, I couldn’t function at all. It wasn’t until a questioning, “Meow?” at 5:30 in the morning made me leap from bed. I had completely forgotten to feed the cats the night before! Their bowls were licked clean. Heaping praise upon my good kitties for not waking…