The stars submit to His command;The heavens of His glories tell. He measures galaxies by hand,Yet with us Jesus deigns to dwell. His glory hid in infant skin,His vastness humbled to a womb, And He whose breath upholds all men,Obeyed to death and lay entombed. How should I celebrate this King, Who bore my death that I might…
I thought the nap was going to prosper, but after the third interruption from the same child, the baby decided against sleep. Still I held him, rocking though he fought my hold, absently singing “God Is So Good,” and raging at wasted efforts and ruined agendas. And then I realized what I was singing. And…
Each drive through the neighborhood reveals new colors. The wonder and relief I felt at spring’s misty green can’t compare to the triumph these golds and reds engender. Only deciduous trees change colors, stopping the photosynthesis process that kept them green through the long warm months. But the yellow and orange tones are not new;…
“He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings” —Daniel 2:21 I’ve seen the posts on social media, months on end now. People claiming that our now president-elect has received some special anointing to “save” America, and others disgusted that anyone would think God chose this man for anything. But I am…
I will keep your law continually, forever and ever, and I shall walk in a wide place, for I have sought your precepts. —Psalm 119:44-45 Long before James described God’s word as “the law of liberty,” God’s people understood this truth. The way of God’s commandments is “a wide place” in which one may run…
The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want. This past Sunday we heard a sermon on the 23rd Psalm, and it’s a psalm I sang again and again this past year, through an anxious pregnancy and overwhelming fourth trimester. And it is true. The Lord is my Shepherd, and He has been my Shepherd,…
“That you … may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” —Ephesians 3:18-19 I had the privilege of studying Ephesians with my ladies’…
His cheerful acquiescence surprised me — I’d expected pushback when I redirected him from Legos to the back yard — and I hastened to praise him. But he immediately spoke to stop me: “I wasn’t even thinking about it. I wasn’t trying to obey cheerfully.” THAT, I contend, is cause for rejoicing: the automatic, thoughtless…
There’s no rule stating that a petite nose introducing itself into the top of one’s communion cup must interrupt a devotional frame of mind, but the mind must be stronger than mine to remain unperturbed. Fearful of a spill, I moved the cup away. Then came the gravelly whisper: “I’m just smellin’ it. It has…
Then when Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he changed his mind and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders, saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” They said, ” What is that to us? See to it yourself.” And throwing down the pieces of…
Between Blue Rocks 