Month: April 2009
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It’s All In A Name: Part Four
For thus the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said, “In repentance and rest you will be saved, In quietness and trust is your strength.” (Isaiah 30:15a) My Brian. Noble. Strength. And a ruthless trust that has led me through the darkest days of my life. I stood with a friend last week…
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It’s All In A Name: Part Three
He has shown Thee, O man, What is good And what the Lord requires of Thee, But to do justly And to love mercy And to walk humbly with Thy God. (Micah 6:8) Micah 6:8 is one of our favorite verses of Scripture, and I am amazed at how our little Micah embodies mercy and…
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It’s All In A Name: Part Two
Asher is most blessed of sons… Your sandals shall be iron and bronze; as your days so shall your strength be. (Deuteronomy 33:24-25) We shall be given shoes of iron. We shall find the unendurable, endurable, the impossible, possible… Not all God’s children, I suppose, have iron shoes–only the ones who need them. Lord, you…
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It’s All In A Name: Part One
A woman of noble character Who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. (Proverbs 31:10) Audrey. Noble strength. A name chosen because it means the same as her daddy’s. Although she is the spitting image of me as a child, I would give anything for her to carry the noble strength that so…
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Wednesday Worship: Mighty To Save
Yesterday afternoon I sat in Brian’s office downtown and looked around at the pictures he has plastered everywhere of our family. Two black and white ones caught my eye. They are both of me. In the first I am holding our three-month-old Bella. My hair is long. I have no glasses. There are long lashes…
A Spring of Joy 