I waited patiently for the Lord; He turned to me and heard my cry. He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the mud; And He set my feet on a rock, making my footsteps firm. He put a…
A New Song (Part 1)
Tag: prayer
Right Where I Am
By Ann O’Malley I’m standing at the sink brushing my teeth before bed when I hear an ominous sound. Drip. Drip. Drip. Drip. Uh-oh. I poke my head through the doorway into the other half of the bathroom, the part…
Honoring Courage: MLK
“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.” “Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, ‘Love your enemies.’ It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a…
Psalms To See Me Through Psalm 30: Rescue Me
Thanksgiving for Rescue from Death. A Psalm; a Song at the Dedication of the House. A Psalm of David. I have written before, and many others have as well, how vital thanksgiving to God is in our life. We should be thankful…
opening up to beauty
…opening up to beauty feels like risk and there are days when it feels like betrayal to look for joy in such small pieces of the world when that joy co-exists with such pain, but I have settled somewhere in…