Author: debanncuster

Cultivate, Kinetic Worship https://open.spotify.com/track/3Dvoip1pHnri5uBDb5uQvJ?si=3RFLbEjrQ3e6YBeGZFObsQ “If God gives you something that you can do, why in God’s name wouldn’t you do it?” ~Stephen King, ‘On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft’~ “Make us more like YouCultivate a heart that’s new, LordMake us more like YouEvery day we surrender our lives unto You”~from “Cultivate” by Kinetic Worship~… Continue reading Cultivating Your Craft

https://youtu.be/NwqTvmpnKeE “I had thought I was growing my garden,when actually my garden was growing me.Teaching me.Making me wiser.”Emilie BarnesTime Began in a Garden Now the Lord God had planted a garden.Gen. 2:8 …He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited.Is. 45:18“In the rustling grass I hear Him pass,He speaks… Continue reading Planted

https://youtu.be/3PdXmvMTyx0 “How lovely is your dwelling place, Lord Almighty! My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.” Psalm 84:1-2 “Man is a hungry being. But he is hungry for God.” Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World “Everyone…hungers for something.… Continue reading Hunger

https://youtu.be/xrAdbH28gIg He that follows me shall not walk in darkness.John 8:12 “Even though I walk through the darkest valley….”Psalm 23:4 It’s like waiting for a miracle. Hands dig in the dirt, uproot the weeds, fingers feel around in the cool darkness, ensuring that the seed will have a nice bed to rest in. Place the… Continue reading Dark

https://youtu.be/QZW4_8_zCBE And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. 1 Peter 3:10 If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established. Isaiah 7:9 Embedded in the Old Testament is the… Continue reading Established

https://youtu.be/F9vtRgjL2c0 The surviving remnant…shall take root downward and bear fruit upward. Isaiah 37:31 Once more a remnant of the kingdom of Judah will take root below and bear fruit above. 2 Kings 19:30 It is a landscape of contrasts now. It is early March, and I have seen Robin Redbreast twice now in our corner… Continue reading Rooted

https://youtu.be/TbLJyjfyACM “Only a weakling gives up when he’s becalmed!A strong man sails by ash breeze!” “She’s in ballast and riding high…Her topsails and royals are catching a breeze that’s too high for us.” “And now you’re becalmed.Just like I was…Wanted to make something of myself.But I didn’t have a chance.” “I will lift up my… Continue reading At My Wit’s End

https://youtu.be/OOKaircCiGI, Just a Closer Walk With Thee I am weak but Thou art strongJesus, keep me from all wrongI’ll be satisfied as longAs I walk, let me walk close to TheeJust a closer walk with TheeGrant it, Jesus, is my pleaDaily walking close to TheeLet it be, dear Lord, let it beWhen my feeble life… Continue reading Close

https://youtu.be/YihKbG8-X3U, Graves into Gardens by Elevation Worship https://youtu.be/xHJ8QKHr-jE, A Fragrant Offering by Rita Springer Every gardener knows that under the cloak of winter lies a miracle…a seed waiting to sprout,a bulb opening to the light,a bud straining to unfurl.And the anticipation nurtures our dream.~Barbara Winkler~ I look out the picture window in the wee hours… Continue reading Barren

https://youtu.be/ore7feFfD40 “Because you…ate from the tree about which I gave you the order, ‘You are not to eat from it,’…you will work hard.”Genesis 3:17 Adam was given the authority to Name. But after Adam Named,he was bent.The privilege of Namingwas removedwhen responsibility was rent. Work has always been a part of the equation. We were… Continue reading Known