Suggested Listening: Seek Ye First, https://youtu.be/xHfzAJS7IRc?si=19wpciyeuRL4OGrz “Be content with what you have;Rejoice in the way things are.When you realize there is nothing lacking,The whole world belongs to you.”~Lao-Tzu~ “The Lord is my shepherd,I lack nothing.”~Psalm 23:1~ What a comfort to know He is the shepherd of my heart: I have everything I need in this… Continue reading All These Things
Listening suggestion: Great is Thy Faithfulness, https://youtu.be/NT0HcAr9aeI?si=V_j_bJl0XFQm3blq “Summer and winter and springtime and harvestSun, moon and stars in their courses aboveJoin with all nature in manifold witnessTo Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love.”~Thomas O. Chisholm~ “As long as the earth endures,seedtime and harvest,cold and heat,summer and winter,day and night will never cease.”~Genesis 8:22~ Thomas Chisholm,… Continue reading The Rhythm of His Faithfulness
Suggested listening from George Winston, Spring https://youtu.be/eKb3N7KDhFw?si=cV6o0YWJj88ILQuv “And lo, it was April! With the laughter of April rain …the whisper of April rain …the trickle, the sweep, the drive, the lash,the dance, the splash of April rain.”~L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Ingleside, Chapter 15~ “We carry this precious Message around in the unadorned clay pots [pot… Continue reading Pot of Herbs
New Day, by Danny Gokey: https://youtu.be/0TrKXehB0pg?si=JA1Xuh0nK4yKAbDY “He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord requireof you?To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”~Micah 6:8~ “Get up! Why do you lie thus on your face?”~Joshua 7:10~ Lenten intention is about drawing us cross-ward. Parsing… Continue reading Get Up! Get Going!
Suggested listening: Breathe, https://youtu.be/k8PBakPWph4?si=miXDtYYR3fpV2vNr “Be still,and know that I am God.”~Psalm 46:10~ “Without rest, we respond from a survival mode,where everything we meet assumes a terrifying prominence …where everything seems more urgent than it really is,and we react with sloppy desperation …Sabbath honors the necessary wisdom of dormancy.”~Wayne Muller~ The memories of playing in a… Continue reading Exhale
Suggested listening: “It is Well” by MercyMe “My presence will go with you,And I will give you rest.”~Exodus 33:14~ This Lenten season, I am focusing on a different kind of fast. I am trying to pay attention to the wrestling places within me and give them rest. I give space to acknowledge those points without… Continue reading Sabbath
Screenshot Still Waters https://youtu.be/v1IaQvgPsfA?si=FzipvcbFDiX6ngeZ This is the Air I Breathe https://youtu.be/Rg9wV0nfvgg?si=NJ3tMPHZ1DHpGUT5 Rest On Us https://youtu.be/qFxmxTC_K4s?si=ePbLhOENqp_jU6wM The concept of breath bears so much significance, carrying more purpose than simply physical. Invisible and transient, breath is a life-force sourced in eternity. The Hebrew word for breath is Ruach, and its connection to the Spirit of God Ruach… Continue reading Breath
Suggested Listening: “Doxology” by Phil Wickham https://youtu.be/J228TzlS9Co?si=JmxRFkSko62EyXN1 Praise God from whom all blessings flowPraise Him all creatures here belowPraise Him above you heavenly hostsPraise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost~Bishop Thomas Ken, c. 1674~ “Let praise … not merely thanksgiving, but praise—always form an ingredient of thy prayers.We thank God for what He is to us;… Continue reading Doxology
Listening suggestion: “All Things New” sung by Big Daddy Weave “Summer and winter and springtime and harvestSun, moon and stars in their courses aboveJoin with all nature in manifold witnessTo Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love.”~Thomas O. Chisholm~ “Now the Lord God had planted a garden.”~Genesis 2:8~ Here’s to a new year, stretched out before… Continue reading New
“The wind is moving but I am standing stillA life of pages waiting to be filled.”~Place in this World, Michael W. Smith~ “Forget the former things;Do not dwell on the past.See, I am doing a new thing!Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?I am making a way in the wildernessAnd streams in the… Continue reading Solstice
A Walk Down Chamomile Lane 