Psalm 2:12 Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.** I lift the blind-slats quietly, trying not to wake my husband, enveloped in sleep. I settle in to my morning-perch, hopeful on this particular day. Yesterday I entered the mental battleground. I ignored...
Psalm 29: 2 Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.** Just days before I stumbled on this verse (sweaty hands paging through my bible while my feet made mileage on the treadmill), I asked You to show me what beauty was. I’ve learned, am learning, what it’s not....
Isaiah 45: 2-3*** I will go before you and make the crooked places straight; I will break in pieces the gates of bronze and cut the bars of iron. I will give you treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that I, the Lord, who call you...
Psalm 23:1 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.** Bigger than me, over my life, You shepherd me. I wasn’t sure that I was a sheep – hungry, lost, desperate – until I saw You as my shepherd. And then there was safety to acknowledge what I already was. As big as...
I came home from that night and I wrote on a half-used mini legal pad I found in my dad’s desk drawer: “my new relationship with God.” This and the date below it, in red ink. Though my file system back then was not as necessarily-sophisticated as it...
