From My Journal

Welcome Home

I AM WRITING THIS FOR ONE PERSON. One person needs to hear this. One who may be feeling fearful, estranged or lonely. You once had faith. You believed the Sunday School Bible stories. You sang the songs. “Jesus Loves Me, This I Know.” “The B-I-B-L-E”. You prayed the prayers, and memorized the verses. “For God […]

Whatsoever?

Whatsoever Ye Shall Ask — A Prayer And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. John 14:13 Lord, Whatsoever? Anything? Really? All that I ask You will do it? But I see there is this one qualification. You say, “Ask in My […]

Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. Jeremiah 33:3 God is ever inviting us to call upon Him. Our burdens are heavy. We are heavy ladened struggling to handle that which we are not designed to manage in our own capabilities. Then tragedy […]

If God's in His Heaven, What's Wrong with the World?

“God’s in His Heaven, All’s right with the world.” All’s right with the world. Really? Hmmm. That’s not what I was thinking! These familiar lines popped into my head as I was having coffee and my quiet time on the deck this morning. They are taken from a poem that was written by Robert Browning in […]

Red Sun in the Morning

From my journal, 6/6/23, 8 AM Today the sun is veiled with smoke and particulate matter that has migrated into my neighborhood from the Canadian wildfires up north. (That’s the meteorological explanation, courtesy of my weather app. ) My husband called me from the porch a short time ago, “Come outside, you’ve got to see […]