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Christ’s Work and Ours: Finding the Shepherd while we wait and watch
Encouragement for the unemployed Encouragement for job seekers Joblessness..this sounds like a negative term, doesn’t it? These days, we may feel that the only work that is valuable is work that receives a paycheck. In one way, a paycheck is a silent commendation or validation or could be received in that manner. It says ,…
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Patrick Quote
“And he watched over me before I knew him..” ~ Patrick of Ireland read more: https://www.ccel.org/ccel/patrick/confession.ii.html
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What Love
What love beyond compare grace beyond degree¹ ² that heaven’s glorious heir would lose his life for me that I may too the father know and life with him inherit that I his boundless grace may show and through all time declare it. ~ Emily Winslow Cox Works Cited. 1, 2. https://www.namecheap.com/visual/font-generator/superscript/
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Greater
photo by Maxime Vandeberge Greater than all Is the Christ who’s in me: From sin, death, and Satan My soul he sets free. The people, they talk about hope; jubilee – But he has a Name and He gives eyes to see First in creation, then new-born again, Awaiting the day, the beautiful, when With…
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Greening ~ A Poem
Greening We wait the Coming greening The desert come to bloom When sighing turns to singing A resurrection tune No more tears forever Will ever sting the ground And only holy cheer be known the Christ-healed world around
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I Hope You Say
photo by Zsun Fu “Tell us one thing you hope people say about you.”¹ On the WordPress platform that I use, I see writing prompts off and on – sparking answers to questions that might be along the lines of, “where would your dream vacation take you?” and “if you could learn to ski, would…
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Psalm 48
image credit: by Photography Maghradze https://www.pexels.com/@photography-maghradze-ph-1659410/ Dear Readers, here is another classic Isaac Watts (1674-1748) hymn. It speaks of God’s faithfulness to his people throughout time – and theirs to Him – and still speaks to us today. Apart from the grace of God through Christ, we may practice works externally, but through the renewal…
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Election Season: A Different Perspective
Photo by Philipp Waldhauer on Unsplash Hello, dear readers! In America this can be a stressful time with an impending election, not to be equated with impending doom, looming on the horizon. But there is something else on the horizon – or rather, Some One, who brings hope. Ultimately, this article is about him. While…
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A POEM on SUNLIGHT
photo by Sebastian Gabriel I joy me in the rising of the sun On the earth On the earth I joy me in the coming of the One Who brings light who is Light Who brought sunlight to birth And brings it now in me From sin and Satan frees He is my Light my…