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"Hey Moses, the bottom line is … I'm not asking, I"m sending and I know what you can and cannot do and have already taken that into consideration and made provision for it. You will do and be much more than you think you are and can do. Just get up off your hind parts…

The mystics have "studied" the works of the LORD. They have engrossed their hearts, minds, and eyes in the intense delight of sheer observation. The reverence of a John Muir, the childlike joy of a St. Francis, the eager eye of an artist studying the works of the LORD humble me. More delight and less…

"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have fa good understanding. His praise endures forever!" – Psalm 11:10 If the fear, awe, and reverence of God provide the starting point for wisdom, it would behoove me to begin there daily with simple acknowledgement and soul-deep realization of…

I have often availed myself of the wide place. I was having a moment of gratitude the other day when I realized that I was not wobbling, staggering, and swaying as I had been some months back. I was sure happy for the wide places when I was. " You gave a wide place for…

If you like this clip art sample, order it from the link above. That is an example of killing two birds with one stone: I used some art to make my point and I advertised the clip art company. But. let's start with this: I like birds and I don't want to kill them. So,…

I'm prayerfully musing over multi-tasking with multiple purposes and the benefits versus dangers of losing one or both in the process of serving both. I feel a blog entry coming on. I think we can accomplish more than one thing at a time, but one thing will be primary focus and the others, peripheral and…

Hard times are creeping all over. Everyone looking for a four leafed clover. Life as we know it isn't so easy. Verses like this getting mighty cheesy, Days are long. Rewards come slowly. More time to waste, less time to be holy. Everywhere I go, huddled masses huddling Folks talking about hard times and muddling.…

Psalm 109 is harsh. It is the song of a king who vows to recompense those who walk over others and persecute the poor, who disregard God and disrespect their neighbors. We are tempered by grace from acting harshly. We are called by Jesus to absorb and resist injustice at the same time. But we…

  "Let no iniquity get dominion over me." This is the prayer of any person who fears addiction to anything. It is the cry of anyone who knows the danger and potential of anything gaining that sort of dominion. What might it be? How might it disguise itself? What attraction might it offer? More important…

Art credit - https://www.redbubble.com/people/aprilann/works/9943039-he-will-regard-the-prayer-of-the-destitute Eugene Peterson calls Psalm 102 "A Prayer of One Whose Life Is Falling to Pieces, and Who Lets God Know Just How Bad It Is." The brother is broken, downtrodden, depressed, angry, and abandoned … Go to the Garden of Gethsemane and to Golgotha. It is all there … poured out in…