September memories – 2024

Our Lord in His infinite wisdom and superabundant love, sets so high a value upon His people’s faith that He will not screen them from those trials by which faith is strengthened.

Charles Spurgeon

Things worth remembering

• a beautiful baptism Sunday
• firecrackers and dead marshmallows
• surviving the tree stand removals and reassemblies
• truck stops, apple cider and city driving
• starting Sunday school again
• a spontaneous hike
• redneck baseball
• the (intentional) air bag explosions and the terrifying excitement that followed
• an encouraging call with my developmental editor

Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead with You…

Jeremiah 12:1

What I’ve been reading

Frost Light – Danielle Bullen

Pink is drifting along the mountain, the faint of primroses, clouds low, light and thin brushing the horizon like feathers. Oh, it’s beautiful. And not the garden I left behind. It’s beautiful in a different way, more full, and empty.

I’ve been taking this one along with me in the tractor to read in spare moments! Danielle is a joy, and so is her book. I love the MC’s desperate search for beauty in a place of desolation.

Rhythms of Renewal – Rebekah Lyons

Quietness infused the way I related to others, enabled me to be a bearer of peace, love, and wisdom in the midst of chaos.

This book has been a lovely resource!

The Adventures of Tintin – Hergé

I was struggling to focus on reading for a little while, so reading some of Hergé’s Tintin graphic novels was a fun way to still consume stories on a page without dragging my brain through a lot of words!

God gave all men all earth to love,
but since our hearts are small,
ordained for each, one spot should prove
beloved over all.

rudyard Kipling

From the journal

Help my heart to want what You want, on Your timeline.

Never let me underestimate the power of prayer and a gentle influence in the lives around me.

What a beautiful thing it is to rest in the timing, omniscient and omnipotent, of God!

Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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