First of all, THANK YOU to everyone who made my birthday amazing. 🙂 Cards, texts, facebook messages, balloons, flowers, food, hugs, and more. It was wonderful. I was especially in awe of God when as I went to bed last night, the follow prayer by Metropolitan Tryphon “just happened” to be the closing prayer in… Continue reading Glory to You on a Day to Celebrate Life
Category: Devotional
words that feed a hungry soul…
A Hymn… When morning gilds the sky, My heart awaking cries: May Jesus Christ be praised! A new song… Turn down the music Turn down the noise Turn up Your voice, oh God And let us hear the sound… Words that comfort… You are blessed when you’re at the end of your rope. … Continue reading words that feed a hungry soul…
Messages in Ash
(This is a repost from a Facebook note I wrote on Ash Wednesday 2009) Messages in Ash The pastor’s thumb makes contact with my forehead 2 strokes Vertical… Horizontal Law… Gospel Condemnation... Salvation Death... Life. Black ash falls from his hand down my face A reminder of the sin in which I drown The… Continue reading Messages in Ash
Demolition gives way To a Beautiful Rebuilding
The basement renovations are well under way at First Trinity. At the end of last week I peeked in down there and was amazed at all that has taken place. Partitions were taken down. The ceiling removed. Construction workers spent an entire day demo-ing 3 steps into the old storage room/soon-to-be prayer chapel. A whole… Continue reading Demolition gives way To a Beautiful Rebuilding
My Blogging “To-Do” List
Wow. There are so many things I’ve been wanting to blog about, but because of all the awesome things happening right now, I have has less and less time to actually write about it. So, before I forget what they are, I’ve started a list, right here on the blog. I hope to get to… Continue reading My Blogging “To-Do” List
Cleaning House.
Cleaning house. Okay so really it’s an apartment, but whatever. Most of the time, I keep (most of) my living space pretty neat. Certain areas of generally more “homey” and less organized than others. For example, my kitchen is one place that I can’t STAND to be messy. Yet, in my music/craft/prayer/extra room rarely… Continue reading Cleaning House.
One Thing
You probably know the story pretty well. Jesus shows up to his friends’ house for a visit. Martha runs off and begins preparing the meal in the kitchen. Mary goes and listens to Jesus. Martha gets mad, and starts complaining to Jesus. Instead of agreeing, Jesus says, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and upset about… Continue reading One Thing
A Bold Prayer…
It seems that a couple times a year, I stumble upon this prayer that I once read in a book. And this morning, as I glanced back through some journals, I read it once again. It’s a bold prayer… A scary prayer… A prayer that maybe we don’t really want to pray, because we… Continue reading A Bold Prayer…
Questions
Questions. They surround us everyday. Some arise over trivial things that really don’t matter much. Others pound at the door of our hearts begging for answers. Questions like “What now?” when one loses his job. Questions like “How long?” when a loved one hears that dreaded “C” word, “Cancer”. Questions like “WHY?!?” when a… Continue reading Questions
Joyfullyblessed… with HOPE!
Hope. We use this word so often that I think it has lost some of it’s meaning. “I hope it doesn’t rain today.” “I hope ‘such-n-such’ sports team wins their game.” ”I hope I did okay on my test/work project/etc.” But truly, hope is a much greater concept. When we really look at hope,… Continue reading Joyfullyblessed… with HOPE!
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