The morning I saw the spider I read Psalm 85. Restore us again, O God of our salvation. Steadfast love and faithfulness meet; righteousness and peace kiss each other. Faithfulness springs up from the ground, and righteousness looks down from the sky. Yes, the LORD will give what is good. I woke up early that day. And some reason I was just sitting at my desk. I was waiting for the coffee to brew and I hadn’t yet opened my…
Down the street from our house is an empty lot. It wasn’t always empty. Once there stood a house. A family lived here. They fed the deer in our neighborhood, so we always saw our deer herd in their yard or on their porch. They had a red car and a brick house. One day, as we were driving by, we looked over and the house was gone. We knew the family had moved out a few weeks prior. We…
O God of all comfort, comfort my heart tonight. I wrote out the words to Ellie Holcomb’s song the other night and it was because I needed the words. I am a practical person. I like black and white. I’m not a “ride the fence” kind of girl. I am a let’s all play by the rules and I feel safe. I like to see the boundaries. I like to understand how things work and keep safe. But sometimes God…
7 Things We Get When We Rely on God’s Strength I don’t think I’ve been sleeping well. I was at a conference last weekend and one of my roommates for the weekend is convinced I have sleep apnea. Her husband suffers from it, and she was telling me I stopped breathing for almost ten seconds several times the night before! Shocked, I texted my husband to ask him if he had ever noticed it too! His reply was: No, you…