Then I looked, and, oh!–a door open into Heaven. The trumpet-voice, the first voice in my vision, called out, “Ascend and enter. I’ll show you what happens next. 2 I was caught up at once in deep worship and, oh!–a Throne set in Heaven with One Seated on the Throne, 3 suffused in gem hues […]
Royalty Realm
Like most people, entering a new year gets my most hopeful juices flowing. I admit I was ready to wave “buh-bye!” to 2011. Then without so much as a hiccup, the New Year came splashing in upon us like a jet boat churning up water. We’ve been riding the wake the past two weeks. 2012 […]
Desert Days – Leaning on Her Beloved
“Who is this that comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her Beloved?” (Song of Solomon 8:5 LITV) Some attribute these words to the bridegroom in the love story of the Song of Solomon. Others cite the question as being posed by the Shulamite’s friends. Both may be theologically correct. But I know what resonates […]
Climbing Your Mountain
God must have had fun when He created Earth’s mountains. I wonder what He was thinking when He pulled off Mt. Everest, the world’s summit of all summits. Perhaps He had Sir Edmund Hillary in mind as He spoke to that particular peak, shaping it higher and higher until it towered with a distinction all […]
Rest On Every Side
Before Tolstoy ever lived to pen his epic War and Peace, God had already put into operation the ebb and flow of wars fought, battles lost, victories won, and then… peace. Last week’s post about Jehoshaphat and the vast army that came against him and God’s people (The Place that Overlooks the Desert) was full […]
Southern ‘Springs
Sometimes a northern wellspring needs to find true grit…uh, grits. My husband and I just returned last weekend from a 16-day cross-country trip to visit our three sets of married kids, two little grandchildren, celebrate our 35th wedding anniversary, and salute a physical toast to the end of a 15-month journey through breast cancer, reconstruction, […]
Undivided Loyalty – Hired by Heaven
It was one of those scrubbing bubbles moments. I was bent over the tub cleaning on a Saturday at the end of a long work week. It was 2009; a time, when recollecting certain difficulties, I refer to as “the year from h-e-double toothpicks.” By now, I had worked in executive assisting for over two […]
Undivided Loyalty – Without a Double Heart
Before he became king of Israel, God made sure David had plenty of friends. It was no small thing, this taking of a kingdom. So He sent David no small cadre of fighting men. Saul was not making any brownie points; the icing on the chocolate chunk was his death by his own sword in […]
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 – 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 […]