Serving and humility… It seems I really can’t see one without finding the other…and, I’m recognizing Elisabeth Elliot definitely understood this principle! Her thought on the matter has convicted me for some time! Of course, I’ve been running across…
A few weeks back, Bay and I served for a week at Camp of the Woods in Speculator, NY. The camp is situated on beautiful Lake Pleasant (one of the finger lakes in the Adirondaks). We enjoyed the opportunities…
The Lord continues to stop me in my quiet times to further contemplate more passages on pride and humility. This one about the tax collector and the Pharisee was waaaaaay convicting! ? Back on July 7th, I wrote…
I am not a fan of anything that slightly resembles a wilderness. We visited the same wilderness that the Bible describes for us when we were in the Middle East a few years ago. Here are some pictures: A…
Remember this verse from last week? It was key #2 to unlocking God’s lessons on humility (#1 was knowing who we are in light of who He is)… I hadn’t quite put the period on last week’s blog post,…
For almost two weeks, the above verse has been floating in and out of my mind… Five little words, pretty easy to memorize. Extremely difficult to fulfill. We “serve” the Lord, working for Him, Scripture tells us, anytime we…
Yesterday morning, I slipped away a little before 6:30, kayak strapped into the back of my husband’s truck and drove the 6-minutes to our nearby little lake. It’s so close, yet I can count on one hand the…
…and sometimes this ?gets me into trouble! The problem with writing is that it requires words. Those words are linked together to create a sentence; then, one sentence links together with another and another to form a paragraph; and,…
Warning & FYI: this is the beginning of an after 4th of July lament that began a few weeks back. I’m mentally putting pieces of thoughts into one place – creating a file for handy reference. Perhaps this has…
A couple weeks back, I looked at this same passage. This morning, I find I am back again, zeroing in on the word “humble.” Jesus invites us, not just to take up His yoke, not just to discover…