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Complex Pain
My life is full and rich. Every day, I have a healthy baby who wants nothing more than to be held and cuddled (and fed and changed 😉 ). And more than any other interesting adventure in her life (like making a fort in a downstairs closet and reading for hours yesterday), I have another daughter whose delight is to snuggle with me and talk, sing, read, pray … just be together. On top of all of that? I have a husband who has stuck with me for 14+ years and who is unfailingly faithful and kind and I have been saved from my sins by the very Triune God…
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Wonderful Christmas Gift Idea — Calvinist Still Life by TJ Lynde!
If you haven’t checked out Taylor Lynde’s fine art store lately, you are really missing out! (Especially if you are looking for a stunning, thoughtful, and extremely inexpensive gift for someone you love. TJ offers these smaller-sized paintings on ebay to help those of us who can’t afford gallery-sized works still get to have gallery-quality fine art in our homes.) Please click through and check them all out — there are a number of Montana scenes that are just lovely. But my favorite is this Calvinist Still Life. (I wish I could put a photo of it in here! TJ & Samara—if you read this, email me a photo, OK?…
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Come With Me in My Death
After reading this quote in a RZIM Slice of Infinity from this week, I immediately prayed it for my friend’s mother (and their entire family) as they walk through the suffering of end stage cancer: “Lord Jesus, come yourself, and dwell with us, be human as we are, and overcome what overwhelms us. Come into the midst of my evil, come close to my unfaithfulness. Share my sin, which I hate and which I cannot leave. Be my brother, Thou Holy God. Be my brother in the kingdom of evil and suffering and death. Come with me in my death, come with me in my suffering, come with me as…
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No Words To Say
My dad and his wife have left for the airport. I can’t really come up with words to describe how I am feeling right now. I’m not sure I really WANT to figure out what I am feeling. Sometimes the layers of our hearts just get peeled back a little more and a little more, don’t they? We had no overt conflicts. Everything went “fine.” We even talked about the gospel in very direct ways on three occasions. But right now? I just don’t have words to say. So I’ll sign off. Sorry to be a non-blogger again. It’s been quite a month, eh? Hope you are all doing…
