Category: Mornings with God

I have been traveling the last few weeks… And while traveling about, I observed people… people running here and there, this way and that, going places. Traveling… traveling to visit family and friends… traveling to some exotic locale for a change of view… traveling to work, for business, or to start life anew…. I observed,…
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“There are many paths of loneliness” (Elliot, 1988)… One such path is being in a room filled with close friends, allies and family of which, you are an outsider. Watching as they connect… listening to the reliving of shared moments… previous encounters, places, events, mutual relations… watching eagerly, patiently waiting and anticipating the conversation to…
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Yesterday’s post contained an important concept from Elizabeth Elliot’s book, The Path to Loneliness; Death the New Beginning. If you haven’t read it… Click the link and take a short moment and do so. You will be blessed. If you did read it… Click the link anyways, it is worth the re-read. This concept is…
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…Continued from, It’s a Good Day To Trust a Promise… I have been quite intrigued by the wisdom in one particular chapter of Elisabeth Elliots’ book, The Path of Loneliness… Chapter Ten: Death is a New Beginning… Listen to her words and the wisdom of them… “Deeper and deeper must be the dying… [which]… sounds…
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Hi Ho! Been workin’ and traveling… will leave again this weekend, but wanted to tell you about another wonderful book… it was given to me to read leisurely on a Sunday afternoon outing to the beach… light reading, per chance… inspiration for the coming week. But this book is anything, but light and not for…
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Rather unexpectedly, this weekend I fell in love… Remember that giddy, heart throbbing… almost nauseous feeling that sweeps over you… exciting every nerve, causing mind and body to tingle with electricity and feeling young, vibrant, alive. I was taken aback… love. Really? …love at my age. Oh, it’s not what you think. No, not at…
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Spiders… I don’t know why, but today has been all about spiders. Yes, spiders. Couldn’t sleep so I finally tackled cleaning out the pantry … It was a job, put off far too long. So here I was up and at em’, ready to go, arms full of Lysol products, broom, mop, and dustpan. I…
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Sometimes life events are so distracting… overwhelming… loud… brash … in your face… we long for a bit of peace… mind whirling, swirling… jumbling thoughts falling end-over-end, caught in a spinning vortex… Thanks be to God who will lift us up, bring us truth… himself… His presence…and clarity of focus not because we now have…
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This morning just before sunrise, while walking my dog and praying… praying for a specific thing, beseeching God for his mercy, grace, favor…. I saw Him in the twilight! The Morning Star of Heaven. God is so merciful… so gracious… so loving. He answered my prayer a Prayer from the Injil

That awkward moment… when you realize you’re acting like a 5 year old because you can’t get your way… the project nixed and reputation discredited, slandered or at a minimum, marginalized… Yesterday, driving home from the airport, God brought out a mirror and the reflection looking back was not very pretty. How does one truly…
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