It’s been pretty quiet around this corner of blogland, but if you had turned up the volume you would have heard copious amounts of coughing and hacking during the past couple of…weeks was it?…it felt like a month. Like I’ve read from others of you, what little energy I had was put toward work, home, [...]

Do you often feel like parched ground, unable to produce anything worthwhile? I do. When I am in need of refreshment, it isn’t easy to think of the needs of others. But I have found that if, instead of praying for my own comfort and satisfaction, I ask the Lord to enable me to give [...]

I’ve been reading Oswald Chambers’ My Utmost For His Highest every morning for twenty years or so. By now, most of the passages are as familiar as old friends, but they still have a freshness that creates a longing for more of Christ. I love today’s reading:
We all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a [...]

When the methods of providence are dark and intricate and we are quite at a loss what God is about to do with us, “his way is in the sea, and his path in the great waters, and his footsteps are not known,” clouds and darkness are round about him, a meek and quiet spirit [...]

My shallow and ebb thoughts are not the compass Christ saileth by. I leave his ways to himself, for they are far, far above me…There are windings and to’s and fro’s in his ways, which blind bodies like us cannot see.
Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim [...]

The stack of in-progress books on the end table by my spot on the sofa grows higher and higher. Another book arrived today that my dear husband ordered for us (I love it when he gets both of us our own copy!)–The Quest for Meekness and Quietness of Spirit, by Matthew Henry, 1698. Since the [...]

“We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten branches of self-reliance, and to root us more firmly in Christ.” ~Charles H. Spurgeon
Aha. So that’s what’s going on.

Thou hast given so much to me,
Give one thing more, - a grateful heart;
Not thankful when it pleaseth me,
As if Thy blessings had spare days,
But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
~George Herbert

Will I surrender to Jesus Christ, placing no conditions whatsoever as to how the brokenness will come? I must be broken from my own understanding of myself. When I reach that point, immediately the reality of the supernatural identification with Jesus Christ takes place. And the witness of the Spirit of God is unmistakable–”I have [...]

Thankfulness is a flower which will never bloom well excepting upon a root of deep humility. ~R.C. Ryle