Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever. Psalm 125:1 ** I come to you, weak-kneed, and You offer to infuse trust. A trait not born in the heart of a woman, but birthed through history and declaration. I declare You to...
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...
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...
“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...
“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...
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...
