A Day of Remembrance
Thus says the Lord: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more. Thus says the Lord: Keep your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for there is a reward for your work, says the Lord: they shall come back from the land of the enemy; there is hope for your future, says the Lord: your children shall come back to their own country. Jeremiah 31: 15-17 Five years ago, today, we lost our patriarch–Jack’s father, Mark–in an instant, in the middle of the rehearsal dinner for Jack’s…
Cloud Cuckoo Land . . .
. . . when you just need to not hear the heavy thing . . . We all have these days. God bless you!!! Love, Taylor
Dog-paddling Mama Relaxes into His Unforced Rhythms of Grace
Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Matthew 11:28-30 Sometimes you don’t know you’re missing something until you’re mid-leap. Lately, I’ve been leaping a lot: quaking in my boots as I submit guest posts and applications to blogging groups, attending my church’s SHE retreat for the first time, enrolling the boys in a new school, agreeing to be a Bible Study leader for…
Refining my role as a wife: Bearing it well
[Love] bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1 Corinthian 13:7 Reading Darlene Schacht’s Messy Beautiful Love has turned out to be a jaw-dropping and hopefully life- and marriage-altering experience. After sufficiently licking my wounds uncovered by last week’s post, I stumbled across another familiar phrase in 1 Corinthians 13: [Love] bears all things. Stop. We’re not talking about the Genesis 16:11 bear: Now you have conceived and shall bear a son. Darn it, because I have done that, even if it was with much difficulty. But that’s not what this bear means. The Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary explains that beareth all things means to do…
Refining My Role as Wife (Lessons from the Time Warp Wife’s new book)
Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, when they see the purity and reverence of your lives. Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used…
