This morning, I read through the some verses about keeping in check with how we live and think. If we are followers of Jesus, we need to keep short accounts with him. After reading, I was asked what sin might be in my life. Right away, I knew what it was.
In the meantime, we trust.
But ultimately we will find...the Lord Himself waiting to bestow a double blessing on us for our time of testing.
Even if you didn't attend Sunday School as a child, I'll bet you know this song.
She made an impression with me as a young girl. When she and her family visited our family home in Oregon, she dressed up for church and wore spectator pumps.
This was the tallest rock I had ever tried to rappel off, the double rope heavy in my hands. But I was ready to go.
Would we forget to pray for our kids and grands if we didn't have the bowl of rocks with their names on them? Probably not, but seeing their names on the rocks is a reminder to both of us to pray for our loved ones.
In our dark world, I'm focusing on the Light. It is my only hope. It can be yours, too.
I've had many happy and exciting moments in my life. Falling in love. Getting married. Having three wonderful children, one in heaven. I've climbed mountains, scrambled up rock faces. Crossed the Columbia River Bar and fished in the ocean. Flown in small airplanes with my late husband and son. Snorkeled in the Coral Sea, jumped waves in the Indian and the Pacific Oceans, to name just a few of my adventures...
My experience with grief has taught me that walking through that shadow is hard, but during the walk through the shadow, as the psalmist wrote: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You are with me," Psalm 23: 4, we are promised his presence.
