Musings

Working on Not Laboring on Labor Day

Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest. [I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.] Take My…

Improbable Rest by Mary Queipo

The last blog in our August guest series is written by my own dear daughter Mary. Enter into her world as you read her story of a hard year and…

One Thing. Even When Hundreds Need Doing.

“Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed—or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not…

Slow Down

This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says: “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have…

Get the Dirt Out!

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. —1 John 1:9 NIV One summer, I had…

Don’t Stop

But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.…

My Only Safe Place

Hear my cry, O God,     listen to my prayer;  from the end of the earth I call to you     when my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock     that…

Whose Clay Is It?

So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands;…

Word Problems – Three Reasons to Talk Less

When there are many words, transgression is unavoidable, But he who restrains his lips is wise. —Proverbs 10:19 NASB I definitely have word problems. You see, I’m full of them,…