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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Almost home!
These words, lived in the reality of today, bring such joy and a feeling of excitement; they deliver the expectation of welcome, comfort and familiarity from the place where I truly belong, a place where I am the closest to God.
After all of the traveling I have enjoyed, I find I have a longing for "my home time", that time when early in the mornings (without distractions) the pace of my day is set. It is the time I meet my Lord God in the pages of His holy word, and the time I allow His spirit to minister to my spirit. I am more fully focused on Him in these moments and He can lead me in the ways to pray; for more than anything, I want to see eye to eye with Him in this conscious time when we speak.
The foundation of my heavenly home and my earthly home is the same ~ built and sustained on the indescribable love that Jesus Christ has for me, and my faith in that saving love. That He would do for me that which I needed to do ~ that He faced a righteous God and took on Himself my sin, my punishment, my pay-day ~ this is the foundation that will be my home from now and through forever.
Refreshed by Serenity and Gratitude, reinforced with excitement, and I am almost there, home.
Homeward bound,
Rhea