Psalm 94:19

In the multitude of my anxieties within me, your comforts delight my soul. (NKJV)
I love that picture and I have found it to be an accurate description of my experiences in relationship with God. My anxieties don’t go away, but there, right in the middle of them, God’s comforts do delight and help me.
For the [...]

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Prayer for the World–The Elderly in the U.S.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses….
Hebrews 12:1

This week I am thanking the Lord for elderly believers, whose lives testify to the faithfulness of God, every single day, no matter what. To be able to come to the end of your life, still trusting and giving glory to God, in [...]

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Mindful of Reality (and the people in it)

I know I’m a traditionalist in a lot of ways. Stuck in a rut. Not always open to new ways of doing things.
Even if there is some truth in that, I don’t think it is completely true of me. It’s more that I don’t think just because something is the newest or the latest that [...]

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Dealing with Pain

I am just starting to read a book by Paul Brand, who was a leprosy doctor in India and then in Louisiana. The book is called The Gift of Pain.  I’ll probably be posting some quotes from it or maybe a review later. But, today, a quote from another book, The Inner Voice of Love, [...]

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