Thank you so much for all your prayers yesterday and the past weeks. Greer's surgery went very well and she is already off the vent this morning!! Please keep praying ... I'm posting her mom's Facebook note from last night below. So...the baby girl is out of surgery and all plugged up. How crazy is that? Many of you may think that the device they put in is just like a pacemaker and helps the heart pump...that is what we thought at first, but we have become somewhat educated pretty ... [Read More]
Someone Has to Die
Ash Wednesday .... the beginning of Lent. My plans included a post on simplicity and the beginning of my 40 bags in 40 days project. The puppy has an appointment at the vet. I'm going to lunch with a friend. There's some laundry and dishes in the sink. And my plans included prayer ... confession, preparation, praise, and wonder. Wonder at the God who became flesh. Wonder at the ugly beauty of the Cross. Wonder at the grace that is truly greater than all my sin. Wonder at the gift of ... [Read More]
Practical Suicide
Got your attention? I'm reading this amazing book ... The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath by Mark Buchanon. Do you ever have a book you KNOW you are supposed to be reading ... RIGHT NOW? This is that book for me. Scott bought Buchanon's book for me for Christmas and I added it to the large stack of books I received. In January, I was reading (again) One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are and noticed a few quotes that resonated within me ... guess ... [Read More]
The Bigness of the Small
Do not disdain the small. The whole of the life - even the hard - is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. ~ Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts The minute parts ... how often are we, am I, guilty of disdaining the small? How often do we, do I, need reminding of the beauty of the tiny? How often have we, have I, lost the magnitude of grace in the minutiae of daily life? Pairing socks, planning menus, packing lunches ... the mundane tasks of every ... [Read More]
Praying for Sweet Greer
Isn't she beautiful? This precious nine-year-old is our niece Greer and we are so thankful for each of you who have lifted her situation before the Father. We are trusting Him in all things and immeasurably grateful for the healing He has already brought to her situation. For those who are unaware, Greer was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy this past Saturday. She is in the hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. Her condition is very serious but she is doing so well. Many people been praying ... [Read More]
Where are your roots?
The roots of our hearts have grown down into things, and we dare not pull up one rootlet lest we die. Things have become necessary to us, a development never originally intended. God's gifts now take the place of God, and the whole course of nature is upset by the monstrous substitution. (22) A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God Have the roots [of your being] firmly and deeply planted [in Him, fixed and founded in Him], being continually built up in Him, becoming increasingly more confirmed and ... [Read More]
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