Let your care and wish be to glorify God by your life here as long as He pleases, even though it be in the midst of toil, and conflict, and suffering, and leave Him to say when “it is enough”.
charles spurgeon
Things worth remembering…
- finding rue anemone in the woods
- a small road trip with my mom
- COUSIN TIME!!!
- guacamole
- blossoms on the tree in the front yard
- Reading Poppleton and Alfie with the aforementioned cousin
- a random child at the lake sitting down next to me while I was reading
- printing off a copy of Beauty Even Here for edits (!!!)
- experiencing the temporary tattoo parlor that popped up around the dining room table one night
- finding a solution for my lack of bookshelves problem…three cheers for double decker coffee tables!
- watching Mrs. Miniver with Grandma and finding that it’s a new favorite
- noodle soup and FaceTime with a dear friend
- High, Low, No Goat
- the first cutting of hay this year
- an Anne of Green Gables movie night with friends
- RASPBERRY CORDIAL ❤
- hiking and good conversation
Now through a frosted pane we trace
Amy carmichael
The outline of His perfect will,
Content to trust His love until
We know and see Him face to face.
What I’ve been reading…
If I Live – Terri Blackstock
This was the final book in the If I Run Christian mystery and suspense trilogy. I didn’t enjoy it quite as much as the first two…it got into the mind of one of the villains while he was doing his bad things and that’s something I personally don’t care for. I was grateful for resolution at last, though!!😅
Disclaimer: due to thematic elements, I personally will not recommend this series to anyone younger than 18.
The Lost Rose – Victoria Lynn
I got a hundred pages in (it’s ginormous!!) and it just wasn’t clicking with me yet so I set it down. I definitely want to come back to this one of these days because I’ve enjoyed the previous two books in The Chronicles of Elira, but I guess that day is not today!
The Cost of Discipleship – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Still on my end table, hehe!
Do Justly, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly: How Ordinary People Can Change the World – Savannah Jane McCrary
I did a book swap with Savannah, and her book has been my tractor companion recently!
you only live twice – Hosanna Emily
Still reading through this one!
Dead and Buried – Cydnie Trenholm
Ahhh!!! I’m so glad I’m finally into this book. It’s a YA thriller, and a sequel to a book I really enjoyed. The banter is so. much. fun.
The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD,
Proverbs 21:1
Like the rivers of water;
He turns it wherever He wishes.
From the journal…
My life is not my own. It rests in the hands of my omniscient, omnipotent Father, who loves me so deeply, more deeply than I can be loved by anyone else. Therefore I don’t have to wonder if there is meaning or intention in where He has me now. I don’t need to fear that I’ve somehow missed an exit or an on ramp. I am not overlooked or crowded out by other items on His to-do list.
May I pursue You as You pursue me, day after day after day, filled with Your goodness, lost in Your love.
I thank You that Your goodness and Your mercy are truly running after me every day of my life…even on the ones when I feel that I’ve botched it.
O royal Giver, blessed be Thy choice.
Amy carmichael
What made your May memorable?
❤ Laurel
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