“Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.” (Luke 2:19) We Americans are not a particularly pondering people. We like action. We run here and there, doing things. We get nervous when we have to sit still. Something going all the time. We count success by the stuff we have been able…
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The mantel clock that I rescued from a flea market hums and rattles quietly over the fireplace. Last year it sat forlornly on a jumbled counter among other flotsam. Its wooden casing looked like it had a skin disease, with its finish all cracked and peeling. Its face and inside works dangled collapsed inside. Its…
“I have esteemed the words of [God’s] mouth more than my necessary food.” These words are spoken by Job as he defends himself from the accusations of his three friends, who are trying to explain his sufferings. My subject is not Job’s sufferings, but the necessity of the spiritual nourishment that God’s word provides. What…
Time Out, Ladies for Tea, Toast, & Talk, Since our last meeting in March, we certainly have had time to think about and do some of the things we discussed that day. I have missed you and pray you are well, encouraged, and trusting God in this time of uncertain circumstances. Oddly, we should be…
Ladies, are you feeling like you’ve been put in time out during this quarantine? Personally, I didn’t use time out with my children as I thought it best to deal with the issue immediately, administer appropriate discipline, and then it was over so both parties could get back to living. Why drag out a problem…
Psalm 102 begins, “Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come unto thee. Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily” (verses 1 and 2). Psalm 102 is twenty-eight verses long, and God…