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Safe Under Your Watch
Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. Psalm 127:1** Guard of the city, watchman of my heart, I breathe relief at these words. I have patterned my whole life around protection. Self-preservation. I have set up walls, big and small, around...
I Want My Life To Sing
Sing to the Lord a new song. Psalm 149:1** Death has its constant work in me and it's only Life's light that threatens it. Death says old. Stale. Never growing. Static. But yesterday's bread can't satisfy when I know I have new. You are new, oh God, and Your new...
Some Places I’ve Landed
Like my Morning Chai, this is a little interlude between normal posts. You'll probably see this again. I've had many send their friends my way, leading to sweet introductions like I had at church today from a random stranger-made-friend who found my blog in Maryland,...
Every Moment, Written In Your Book
"You number my wanderings; Put my tears into Your bottle; Are they not in Your book?" Psalm 56:8** You whisper this verse in my inner-me when my outer-me has already decided that today is a loss. It is not over in Your eyes. Unaddressed pain leaves me grumpy, but You...
Winning My Weak Minutes With Your Strength
"The Lord is their strength" Psalm 28:8** Long mommy-days and even longer lists of mommy-to-dos threaten adoration. They impose "schedule and demand" on my lifeline. My power cord teeters out of the socket, but the force of this against my heart is not stronger than...
You Speak To My Innermost Me
Therefore, behold, I will allure her, will bring her into the wilderness, and speak to her heart. Hosea 2: 14-15** You speak to my heart. My heart? Not my actions. Not what I’ve done or failed to do, but my heart. Not my playlist of a thousand sins I pick and choose...
God Who Is Pleased
But without faith is is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Hebrews 11:6** I wake up, weak, and read that even me, in my humanity, has the ability to please You....
No Hands
Sometimes even the one who finds words to be their heart's outlet needs to live the story and not write about it. The swirl in our lives and around this adoption has been rich with color and depth we didn't anticipate. I am living (daily) death and restoration through...
Come Away With Me
Draw me away! Song of Songs 1:4** I sit in the coffee shop, watching the clock tick closer to my return-to-the-real-world time. For a minute, I turn down the music piping in my ears to listen to the music overhead. Come away with me she sings, a song from a summer...
Declaring His Greatness
Men shall speak of the might of Your awesome acts, and I will declare your greatness. Psalm 145:6** Today my greatest declaration is to myself. My body holds a storehouse of testimony, yet the old in me wants to speak louder than Your new. Old lies spring up, in...