This week’s fruit of the Spirit that I’m studying has been “gentleness”. As I was getting ready to open the workbook, and imagining how Beth Moore might approach this fruit, I was feeling a little relieved. I mean, week after week, she keeps teaching things that convict me. I don’t THINK she’s been trying to …
Walking…But Not By Sight: a Devotional Post Why I Went Walking in the Dark We’ve had an issue here at our house that has caused us (me) problems. We live in the Boonies. We have an electric fence that our dogs have been trained to stay inside. The fence wire (which is an underground wire) …
Anybody remember tho old song Frank Sinatra did called “Love and Marriage”? In case you don’t, but would like to listen to it, here is a link, with some sweet little eye candy thrown in for good measure: clips of Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman from the movie, “Indiscreet”. And, if you’re not in the …
OK, I wanna start out by saying that in today’s post, I will not be talking about this Abba: I know this will be a load off the mind of several of you who have lived through the disco era. Now, if the real, unvarnished truth be told, I actually liked several of their songs, …
Have you ever realized, after the fact, that you had been given a test, and you failed it? I have. I failed one on Sunday. With all my posting on the psalms, with all my love of God’s Word, I expect more of myself than what I am about to reveal in the following incident. …
Today’s post really piggybacks onto Monday’s post, “Never Give In”, so not to discourage you from reading this one if you HAVEN’T read that one, but I think what I want to say today will be more meaningful to you if you have read and meditated on the first half of Psalm 132. Just sayin’. …
“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.” Oh, I love that famous quote, by Winston Churchill, describing our family’s vacations…. OK, I’m sort of kidding, but I was pondering …
Have you ever done a little act of kindness, and then hoped that God would use your little effort somehow? I want to tell you a story today about how a kindness done for someone else had a ripple effect that had an impact on me personally in a very real way. I love this …
I am just worn out with the turmoil. Because lately, the inside of my brain has been feeling a lot like this: I am worn out with arguments. Worn out by the incessant, never ending torrent of words that flood from the fingertips and/or mouths of a few. Whether it’s a religious/doctrinal issue, or a …
Today’s Psalm, Psalm 130, is a beauty, and I don’t want anyone who is interested to miss out on this treasure. I think maybe this is my favorite one so far. In case you’re just now “tuning in”, I’ve been reading Beth Moore’s study on the Psalms of Ascent, Stepping Up, and taking the opportunity …
This might seem a strange title for a post on Psalm 129, and I admit, arriving at this title was a bit of a tortuous journey for me, but bear with me, hear my tale, and all will eventually be made (fairly) plain. Certain psalms are called imprecatory psalms. Imprecatory psalms are those psalms that …
If you are wondering why a little wrinkled brown thing clutching a microphone is pictured atop this blog post, you, my dear child, are obviously not of a certain age. Or else you are of a certain age, but have led a very sheltered life. That’s a California Raisin, and he’s singing that he “Heard …
How would you like to move in to the cabin pictured here? What? No takers???? Once, many years ago, I had the pleasure of visiting a cabin that was originally built in the 1800’s. (NOT the one pictured here.) The owner of that cabin had lovingly restored it, detail by painstaking detail. He had also …
Have you ever felt like you’ve been put out to pasture for a season? Well, I have. My user name, Susan in the Boonies, wasn’t chosen as lightly as you might think. For 14 years of my life, I attended a class called Bible Study Fellowship. It is a wonderful organization that served as a …
There is an old commercial, for shampoo, perhaps, where the gorgeous model looks at the camera and says in a sultry voice, “Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful”. An obnoxious commercial, but remarkable in its staying power in my mind. Sadly for the advertisers, I DON’T remember what product they were advertising. I sure remember …