I don't know what I'd do without my books. My many devotional books. In addition to my NLT Daily Walk Bible I have Brennan Manning's Reflections for Ragamuffins (definitely a Ragamuffin here), Streams in the Desert (which is the greatest, classic daily devotional for someone who is grieving) and Henri Nouwen's Sabbatical Journey (his last diary, but I'm using for a devotional). I have collected many others over the years but Brennan Manning, Mrs. Charles Cowman, and Oswald Chambers are my all-time favs. So far. Oh, and Charles Spurgeon, love him too.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Books of Devotion
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Saturday, October 30, 2010
Met Needs--A Wonderful Thing.
I made homemade soup today. My own conglomeration of a few different recipes. It started out as potato soup, then on to chowder. Potato and corn chowder.
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Sunday, October 10, 2010
God is Neither on the Right nor the Left
Homophobia and racism are among the most serious and vexing moral issues of this generation, and both church and society seem to limit us to polarized options.The anything-goes morality of the religious and political Left is matched by the sanctimonious moralism of the religious and political Right. Uncritical acceptance of any party line is an idolatrous abdication of one's core identity as Abba's child. Neither liberal fairy dust nor conservative hardball addresses human dignity, which is often dressed in rags.Abba's children find a third option. They are guided by God's Word and by it alone. (I would disagree a bit here by saying I'm also guided by the Holy Spirit.) All religious and political systems, Right and Left alike, are the work of human beings. Abba's children will not sell their birthright for any mess of pottage, conservative or liberal. They hold fast to their freedom in Christ to live the gospel--uncontaminated by cultural dreck and political flotsam, and the filigreed hypocrisies of bullying religion. Those who are bent on handing gays over to the torturers can lay no claim to moral authority over Abba's children. Jesus saw such shadowed figures as the corrupters of the essential nature of religion in his time. Such exclusive and divisive religion is a trackless place, Eden overgrown, a church in which people experience lonely spiritual alienation from their best human instincts.
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Sunday, October 3, 2010
Wanted: Followers
Okay, now that I'm kind of on a roll with this blog-posting thing, I'm ready to go invite some people to read it. When I look at my page, it's so pathetic that I have only two "followers" listed. One is my husband, who, I promise you, has completely forgotten this blog. And the other is my daughter who is waaaaay too busy to follow me. She is a business executive with a husband and five children!
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Saturday, October 2, 2010
Don't Look Down
This could be your best work yet
Have you got the stomach for this
Come on dig deep
What have you got left to lose
Tragedy is half the fight
Are you willing to lose your life
Come on let it bleed
There’s nothing you can hide from me
‘Cause I know you’ve been here before
I’ve seen your scars
The price it’s too high
What if you fall again
Then I’ll fall too
Straighten up
Eyes ahead
Look for me
You don’t have to be scared
Don’t be scared
Don’t look down
Regret has pierced your heart
Gravity has left its mark
But I’m playing for keeps
Even death can’t do us part
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