Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a soul. – John Keats At the height of the Starr chamber, a wonderful friend handed me a 3X5 Index card with the above quote handwritten on it. I continue to hold on to…
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Walking With God
Oh for a closer walk with God A calm and heavenly frame; A light to shine upon the road That leads me to the Lamb! – W. Cowper Y’all know my affinity for the image of “walking with God.” I love the line in Genesis 3:8 about God walking in the garden of Eden…
Lot In Life
Who hasn’t thought, wondered, or wished at some point for a different lot in life, a different sphere assigned to you; that your birth, your education, your job decisions had been different. But all the thinking and wishing won’t change a thing, and don’t ever think that God doesn’t understand his plan or that he isn’t…
Burdens
He doth Himself our burdens bear, He doth for us take care, And He, our God, knows all our weary days. – B. Schmolck I have written before about a good friend’s grandmother chastising him when he was feeling sorry for himself. She said, “Son, the good Lord never gives you a load, you…
God’s Love
For I am persuaded that neither death, not life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God…. – Romans 8: 38,39. Think Paul is trying to drive his point home? Perhaps…