My devotional reading this week is in Hebrews. It’s been very enouraging, because life seems to be a deliberate putting of one foot in front of the other to move foreward. It’s not a smooth or easy gait; it takes thought and prayer and courage. It takes hope.
I read from the ESV Reformation Study Bible, [...]

“Heaven is not here, it’s There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long [...]

Breathe on me, Breath of God,
Fill me with life anew,
That I may love what Thou dost love,
And do what That wouldst do.
Breathe on me Breath of God,
Until my heart is pure,
Until with Thee I will one will
To do and to endure.
Breathe on me, Breath of God,
Till I am wholly Thine,
Until this earthly part of me
Glows [...]