Everyday Peace

Today I’ve been doing laundry. Everyday work reminds me of the role of simple, ordinary, everyday things in helping me remember that I live as the creature before the Creator (to use Francis Schaeffer’s phrase!). He is the One who created, and the One who orders my days. I do the laundry, and He upholds the universe.

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Kindling the Brushwood

“I will recount the LORD‘s acts of unfailing love
and the LORD‘s praises as High God,
all that the LORD has done for us.”

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Welcome!

Welcome to Kindling for Candles! I chose the name for the blog from Isaiah 42 and Matthew 12. Within those passages there is justice, confrontation of evil, compassion, comfort and hope.

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