Stories
"As Christmas approaches I am thinking about stories and what story I am attending to. We are preparing to hear again the greatest story ever told. It speaks to the sanctity of human life not because of anything we have done but because we are His and created in His image. It is a story of the sacredness of the human body and soul because God incarnated himself to redeem us, robed Himself in broken flesh to heal every part of us. It is a story where the great lover calls us back to Himself and where the culmination of His love is laying down His life for all of us. ."
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The Terrible Lie
Sally Lloyd Jones, in her retelling of the Garden of Eden, writes of "The Terrible Lie". This is the lie the serpent whispered in the ear of Adam and Eve and he whispers it still in the ears of all mankind, "Does God really love you?"
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Julian
"God, of your goodness, give me yourself; you are enough for me, and anything less that I could ask for would not do you full honor. And if I ask anything that is less, I shall always lack something, but in you alone I have everything." Julian of Norwich
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Laundry
"Doing laundry and keeping house are in fact a subversive and radical acts of hospitality - to house, clothe and feed the stranger the enter our home in the form of babies and anyone else who enters our homes."
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Prayer
"The words we speak shape us and the words we speak, pray, or sing about God shape our faith. These prayers did what all good prayers should, they lifted my eyes to Jesus and set them on Him."
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We quit something today
Quitting isn't easy because you have to admit you have failed. You have to look people in the face and declare yourself human. It's putting on display to everyone around you that you are not perfect, you have fears, and you have weaknesses. It's the exact opposite of keeping up appearances and I think we all like appearaances. I know I do.
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They that wait...
"As the words left my mouth I could almost see them pull a U-turn in midair and come back to knock me in the forehead. God has a sense of humour. That statement was for my own heart just as much as it was for my kids, 'Lisa, can you just trust me and wait?' "
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Spiced Peaches
"So there we were, sitting on the kitchen floor , playing Memory and slurping spiced peaches. A beautiful little moment hidden away from the world's eye. A holy and sacred moment observed only by God. A moment where loneliness was kept at bay and sacrifice and friendship were offered. "
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Sunflowers and September
"As I watch the sunflowers out my kitchen window, I am reminded that when you make a choice you are often left feeling like you have missed out or something has been lost. And we feel this way because it is true. You can't choose it all because if everything grows then nothing grows well."
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The elusive quiet time
"I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord.....The first thing to be concerned about was not, how much I might serve the Lord, or how I might glorify the Lord; but how I might get my soul into a happy state, and how my inner man might be nourished..." George Mueller
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Leeks and Melons
"Egypt was the land of slavery, pain, terrible memories, entrapment and hope deferred. Egypt was the land of death. How could they complain and compare God to Egypt? They could and they did because there is comfort in slavery."
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Thankfulness
"But I am working on finding beauty in the broken, in the distorted, and in the fragments. The seed is thankfulness and the fruit is joy."
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Early Morning Prayers
"Freedom is a miracle. It involves actual healing. Freedom means change. It is the unknown on the other side of the cage. And the vastness of the thought steals my very breath."
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