First quiet Saturday morn’ alone in 2 yrs:
“The joy of God, not any positive situation or feeling, will be our strength to sustain, keep, and maintain us until His appearing.
It is the joy of God as our strength, that keeps us standing for Him and going forward with Him. ”
We’ve probably hosted over a hundred times this past year but having 20+ in our cozy 450sqft apartment — eating, praying and praising together this noon was something else.
As the year end approaches, I often become sober, considering all that have transpired. In these considerations, thankful for the shining and seeing: “As the Lord shines, He saves. The shining is His saving, and the seeing is the deliverance”.
Reading this question, “Do you believe that in today’s tumultuous world situation God is still moving in man’s history?” and having a confirming answer several sentences later, — “But God moved even in Cain’s history”.
We shared our college application essays with each other today — and I was quiet for a long time after, imbued by waves of both surprise and nostalgia.
My 19-year old self wrote about a butterfly’s cry; silent yet acute, mourning for the trees falling in the woods.