Piper is a writer, teacher and current seminarian. She is a wife of twenty years and a mother, raising three children in colorful Colorado, resting at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. Piper writes about her passion ~ Jesus Christ ~ on her blog www.witnessingthedivine.blogspot.com, and seeks to expound on the Word to create a hunger and thirst for God in those that read her musings. Piper served as a staff writer on Christian Women Online, and now contributes as a guest. Piper is a bibliophile and devourer of books. Her city surroundings are often interrupted with daydreams of wide open spaces ~ and horses.
Piper has written 36 on Christian Women Online.
This scenario may seem a bit exaggerated, but that is exactly what Hannah endured. Eli allowed his sons to run wild, without rebuke. They were having sex with women when they brought sacrifices to the temple. Eli did accuse Hanna of being drunk, but when she explained why she was praying, Eli blessed her. […]
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From Sorrow to Joy I witness again today the birth of another child My husband’s second wife her scorn is nothing mild Relentless she mocks me day by day for my bareness My heart it aches to give a child love and tenderness My husband loves me this I know for sure His love and […]
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O Yahweh, our Adonay, how majestic is your name throughout the earth! Your glory is sung above the heavens. (v.1) I wish you could see what I see; the lens does not give proper justice to the beauty. The beauty of spring, watching the trees stretch and yawn, waking from the long sleep of winter. […]
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Psalm 3: A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. O Lord, how my adversaries have increased! Many are rising up against me. Many are saying of my soul, “There is no deliverance for him in God.” Selah. But You, O Lord, are a shield about me, My glory, and the One […]
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“Thanksgiving for the past, rededication for the present, and expectation for the future were the all-embracing components of Israel’s worship as voiced in the Psalms ~ a worship rooted in the healing, compelling, and hopeful revelation of God in their history.”[1] “The Psalms train us to pray with others who have prayed and are praying: […]
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Christmas ~ it comes every year and brings with it tinseled trees, bright lights, carols, crèches, joy and laughter. Christmas also brings Christmas music ~ at or around Halloween, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, grumpy bumper to bumper drivers, fights in the toy aisle, and fights in the TV aisle, anger and sadness. Charlie Brown faces […]
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I am praying tonight that we find rest in the joy of our First Love.
Laying it all down at the altar of grace... this is where we find our peace. And we need You, Lord. We need You when the day is long and our bodies are tired. We need You when the problems are bigger than us and our hearts are weary. We need You when we don't know what to do next. We need You, when our minds are so full of this-and-that, to become the Center of us. We need our eyes on You and Your Spirit within. We are weak and we need Your strength. We need Your living water to fill all these brittle and dry places... more than anything else in this world, it is Your love that we need.
Let us not lose heart and not lose the hope in this ~ Jesus, we are Yours.
Holy Spirit, come fall afresh on me...
~ Christie