Luke 23–24: Eyewitnesses & Faith

July 29, 2023.Reading time 20 minutes.

“You are witnesses of these things.”

Job 11–12: Ease & Calamity

February 9, 2023.Reading time 23 minutes.

“He who is at ease holds
calamity in contempt,
As prepared for those whose feet slip.”

1 Peter 4–5: Our Grief & God’s Grace

April 5, 2022.Reading time 15 minutes.

This is the true grace of God. Stand fast in it.

Grief & Grace

July 29, 2019.Reading time 18 minutes.

Today I was reminded of something in the past that had hurt me down to the bone because it was a permanent loss of something dearly anticipated. It was taken away and will never come again. I cried and grieved again for that loss. A little later I looked at the Bible reading for today. […]

Psalms 131–133: Humility & Trust

November 16, 2011.Reading time 9 minutes.

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 46: Wednesday “O LORD, my heart is not proud, nor my eyes haughty; Nor do I involve myself in great matters, Or in things too difficult for me. Surely I have composed and quieted my soul; Like a weaned child rests against his mother, My soul is like […]

‘…the chains of Christ’s love’

August 13, 2011.Reading time 15 minutes.

In the last two chapters of his gospel, Luke writes of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Luke tells of Jesus’ journey on the road to Emmaus with two of His followers, and Jesus’ charge to those gathered with the eleven remaining apostles. “Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and […]

Luke 23–24: Eyewitnesses & Faith

July 30, 2011.Reading time 16 minutes.

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 30: Saturday “Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ would suffer and rise again from the dead the third day, and that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to […]

Bearing Burdens

May 16, 2011.Reading time 7 minutes.

While doing some reading on Job this weekend, I found this by Francis Andersen: “But God did not suspend each individual in isolation, to find fulfillment solely in communion with himself. God put each man with family and friends and things, with property and work. Only a false piety, a disdain for things as evil […]

Job 11–12: Ease & Calamity

February 10, 2011.Reading time 11 minutes.

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 6: Thursday “He who is at ease holds calamity in contempt, As prepared for those whose feet slip.” Job 12:5 Job summarizes the attitude of his friends: they are at ease and not beset with devastation, and so they look down on calamity as something that cannot touch […]

Job 7–8: Sovereign & Good

January 27, 2011.Reading time 16 minutes.

Read the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 4: Thursday “Why have You set me as Your target, So that I am a burden to myself?” Job 7:20b In today’s Bible reading of Job 7–8, Job finishes his rejoinder to Eliphaz in chapter 7, and Bildad lectures Job in chapter 8. Chapter 7 opens with Job’s […]

Blessings

October 16, 2010.Reading time 14 minutes.

I’m thankful for many things—my husband, my children and for various family and friends who are part of my life. I am grateful for strangers I have met who have encouraged me. Over the past three years my family has been through difficult times, as you may have guessed from some of my writings. We’ve […]