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Psalm 51:10-17 “Create in [literally: for!] me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast [upright] spirit within me.” I love that “Create FOR me a clean heart O God” … it’s not just a scrubbed-up old heart – but a new heart created by God for me! I’ve heard (read in Your Word?) that You . . . → Read More: Oct 29 notes: A new heart and a new Spirit October 3, 2008 Baby Marcus woke with a plugged nose, and his mom and dad took him to the doctor. Tough for such a tiny guy to be sick already… but my son and I had already planned to go to Edmonton to visit other family members…. Still, I couldn’t relax, because I felt like I should . . . → Read More: What happened to miracles? Why is life so complicated? September 18 (more) Dear God – I’m really having a rough time here… this “waiting game” … I can’t seem to settle down to anything… writing (blog, stories, website, letters, etc) … French study… exercises… crafts… music… I’m just wasting so much time!!! I do things (like those pictures I took and posted on Facebook and Flickr, emails I’ve . . . → Read More: Wasting time? Caught in a rut? September 18, 2008 In Job 21, Job complains that contrary to what his friends have been claiming, the wicked often DO prosper and have happy families, etc. And if God passes their punishment to their children, he asks, wouldn’t it be better to punish the wicked man himself? Then I read Psalm 140, and David is asking God . . . → Read More: It’s not fair! and other “wonderings” (I had an interesting dream this morning. I was at a church meeting of some kind. It was an attempt, I think, to be free-flowing and to allow different people take part and so on. Still, there was a man, up on a platform behind a podium, kind of running the meeting… at least announcing a . . . → Read More: His church: believing in Him; gathering together in His love (Today’s blog comes from my journal this morning.) I haven’t gone to church today. Partly because my husband asked me to wait for an important phone call. But maybe more so because I just dread going to “our church” right now. I do miss some people when I don’t go. Sometimes I even miss . . . → Read More: Questions to God Further to what I wrote last night… the quote on the front of this new journal reads “Walk towards the sunshine, and the shadows will fall behind you.” And YOU are the “Sonshine”… and its true… Walk towards the Sonshine and the shadows of this world, of evil, of the . . . → Read More: More thoughts about this whole church thing… Wondering about church, Father… Well, the thing is, I’m doubting any place else (than where we attend now) will be any more perfect… and I do have friends there…. and I do believe we really need to gather together regularly, as Your word says… and perhaps “my” problem is that I’m not “involved” enough… |
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