Tag: Faith
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Compassion
For years, I’ve awakened at 3 and 4 and 5 in the morning, no matter when I go to sleep. I often struggle to get back to sleep. In recent months I find that this is a most precious time in my day. It’s a time of quiet and an almost holy darkness. For even…
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Faith
I began this year, 2014, planning to document the little miracles of my life as they occur along the way. And there have been so many: Our daughter’s job loss and her subsequent move and reemployment; her house sale, house purchase; our grand-daughter’s birth, my ability to be present when she was born; and so…
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When His magnificence eludes me
I’ve recently have felt little…little connection to God or to His children in my midst, little motivation to reestablish a connection (or connections) with Him, a sense of apathy and a ‘maybe tomorrow’ attitude. Is this dryness? That aridity of which some write? Oh, I go through the motions. I pray the standard prayers. I…
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Meditation 9 – What we ask in faith, God provides
Do you dread something painful? Is there in your soul a vague fear, which seems unreasonable, and yet torments you? Trust fully in My providence. I am here, I see everything; I will not leave you. I’m such a weenie! I’m still concerned about that dinner party. It’s tomorrow night and it has me losing…
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Miracle of answered prayer
My daughter caught one of these darn bugs that are going around this winter. We get particularly concerned about her because these bugs can often trigger her asthma. So, when she called to tell me she was at Urgent Care one Sunday night, I was immediately lifting her up in prayer, asking that God strengthen…
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Seven steps to a deeper faith
I prepared a little mission statement and annual plan for this blog for 2014. It goes like this: Mission: In 2014 I want to achieve a deeper understanding of God’s purpose for my life. Objective: To achieve this I will document here life’s little miracles as they happen to and around me. Kind of formal,…
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God’s Lost and Found
For years I have gone to God when I’d lose stuff…keys (top contender, by far), earring-backs, books, files…nothing terribly important in the whole scheme of things, but stuff I needed at one particular moment in order for my life to continue to run smoothly. The way it started is kind of embarrassing, actually. I wasn’t…
Walking With My Brother 