It’s Really Quite Easy I like a reading discipline and plan. In May I read a chapter of Proverbs each day along with a chapter of my book, 31 Days of Proverbs. Believe it or not reading my own work enlightens!!! I forget what I write and as I read along I think, “Wow that’s… [Read More]
Psalms
Spurgeon and The Psalms – A Book Review
Just In Time I was preparing my June discipline to read through the Psalms – five chapters per day – when I was offered the chance to review this gem of a book from Bible Gateway. This lovely leather edition of “Spurgeon and the Psalms” is a simple and straight-forward devotional. Presented in the New… [Read More]
Teach Me To Number My Days
It’s that time of year I get pensive, inward, quiet, reflective, meditative, and a bit disgruntled… Years ago this was my favorite week of the year – my happy birthday week – but when the five’s became sixes I didn’t like it so much! My friend, the man I work for, and I were talking… [Read More]
Quietude: September 24th 2017
The Lord will give increase to you and your children. Praying for our children in Autumn The Season of Change is Upon Us! Prayer changes things because prayer changes us. Psalm 115.13-14 xo The quiet hour of prayer is one of the most favorable opportunities He has in which to speak to us seriously. In… [Read More]
Quietude: September 17th, 2017
Your children and grandchildren will be established before the Lord. Praying for our children in Autumn The season of change is upon us. Prayer changes things because prayer changes us! Psalm 102.28 The children of your people will live in security. Their children’s children will thrive in your presence. (NLT) xo The quiet hour of… [Read More]
quietude: september 25 2016
Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth! Psalm 46.10 There’s a lot of going-on going on, isn’t there? Cities in rage. Friends with health issues. Drought. Wars and rumors of. Political frustration. Work stress. Gas Shortages. Chronic conditions plaguing loved ones…. [Read More]
quietude: september 4, 2016
Two of my kids are a little obsessed with beach-combing. They love the search and just went on an Epic Shell Hunt on a 9-acre shoal in the Gulf of Mexico with a Tropical Storm surrounding them. OCD? Maybe a bit! They didn’t have any fear about getting on that skiff and riding 45-minutes into… [Read More]
quietude: may 15 2016
Pretty amazing, isn’t it? When we humble ourselves before a righteous God, and confess our sins and turn away from those sinful ways – He takes them and casts them to the wind never to hold us in judgment for them. That’s a pretty amazing God. Wouldn’t you say? Are your sins “gone with the… [Read More]