My latest

It has been such a long time since I wrote anything for my blog. I really feel like we have been “under the gun,” yet I know there are SO MANY who are worse off than I. I do believe the Lord is doing a work in our lives, so that gives me hope. I have said before, “If I could find out where the line starts, I am ready to line up!"

There have been many days when I have wondered about God’s purpose in this. I am reminded often in my reading that God sees the whole plan, we see only see part. What measures would He entertain to bring us to the place He wants us to be? Jean Fleming writes in The homesick heart, “God’s primary intent is to reveal Himself, not to hide; to speak, not to withdraw. God did not put in man the need for Him and then retreat to a dark corner of an impossible maze. In His essential nature, God is a communicator.


Everywhere a longing God attempts to unfold some glory of Himself in smaller glories that our finite minds can receive…That God, holy and majestic, puts aside His dignity and manifests Himself in the most ordinary kinds of things astonishes me.

God not only condescends to make Himself known, He expresses divine mysteries in terms concrete and familiar to make the truth accessible to our limited human minds. Like a father who stoops to look his toddler in the eye, God considers our limitations.

God typifies, interprets, and explains Himself in numerous similes, metaphors and analogies…’He will cover you with his feathers, and under His wings you will find refuge; His faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.’ (Ps. 91:4)

God reveals His longing heart as He parcels out His magnificence in little packages that only imperfectly represent Him so we might know Him.”

I do not pretend to understand all that has happened to us. I must admit there have been some times that I have been discouraged. BUT I do believe God has a purpose in all this AND I am determined to follow Him through to the very end!

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” I trust that some lives have been strengthened or changed because I have lived.