Tonight, I want to sing but I am tired. I’ve missed singing, but this evening all I want is a lullaby sung over me. This Sunday evening puts to rest an intense week. It was full of physical activity and emotional draw in my workplace, as well as precious too-little time with family who lives […]
Desert Days – Diner Days in the Manna Cabana
I have the funniest greeting card with a Manna Cabana cartoon on the front. The daily specials are listed as 1) Manna, 2) Manna, 3) Manna and 4) Manna. Take your pick from today’s options. Manna it is! Though I laugh every time I come across that picture when digging through my card selection, it’s […]
Desert Days – When the Obvious Isn’t
Do we want to hear from God ourselves, or would we rather someone else tells us what God wants us to know? If we figure hearing from God directly is too intimidating, we tend to go with listening to or reading what others have to say He said. Before long, we’re into “he said He […]
Desert Days – The High Stakes of Inheritance, Part 2
This one’s for the girls… As I was reading and writing last week about Caleb, the “give me this mountain” man, I found in Judges 1 a continuation of his story – and that of his daughter, Acsah. You can read it yourself, but the upshot is that Acsah was given in marriage to Caleb’s […]
Desert Days – The High Stakes of Inheritance
One man stands out to me when I read about the children of Israel frittering away forty years in the wilderness: Caleb, Joshua’s partner in clandestine operations. The two of them, along with ten other men – one from each tribe – were commissioned by Moses to explore the territory of Canaan, the Lord’s land […]
Desert Days – At the Scent of Water
We’re not what I would call fully ‘green’ folks, but this weekend my husband was a definite tree hugger. The corner lot our house sits on was blessed with trees by the former owners. Planted twenty-five years ago, they were small clusters here and there of “little popsicle sticks,” they proudly pointed out when we […]
Desert Days – As a Watchman Waits
It has been extremely difficult to get the flow going these past two weeks as I’ve attempted to write. Thus, there was no post a week ago and this is now Monday morning. All I could do was wait. Two weeks ago I returned to work after these past ten months of breast cancer treatment. […]
Desert Days – The Gentle Gale of God
There’s a commercial that’s been running on television the past six weeks or so. The few times I’ve happened to catch it I’ve thought to myself, “There’s a blog post in there.” The setting is the desert with sand as far as you can see. In one quick scene there are two four-drawer file cabinets […]
Desert Days – A Heart Set on Pilgrimage, Part 3
I love God’s trees, even in the wilderness. Not sage brush and spiny cactus, but the ones that stand as sentinels of God Himself. He began with one tree of import in Genesis – His ‘kindness and sternness’ (Romans 11:22) instructing Adam and Eve (and me and you) the single one to avoid in His […]
Desert Days – A Heart Set on Pilgrimage, Part 2
Welcome to the next installment of Desert Days. There is definitely a specific focus to the writing these days, courtesy of the Lord. I find myself held in this place by His Spirit until He releases me on to something different. I wouldn’t wish it any other way (and pray you aren’t finding yourself saying, […]