"I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my supplications. Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live." — Psalm 116:1-2 I wore a jacket to the mailbox this morning and that is the
"Sons are indeed a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward." — Psalm 127:3 Two of my grandchildren have a birthday today and there are eight years between them. Emma is sixteen. Caleb is eight. Same date, eight years apart, and every year since
"The LORD has done great things for us, and we rejoiced." — Psalm 126:3 It is Sunday evening and the first full week of September is behind us. It was a week with a holiday at the front of it, which always makes a week feel like it
"Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs." — Mark 10:14 I went into the room this afternoon and got it ready, and it took an hour, and I could have done
"For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation." — Psalm 62:1 Saturday morning and I have not said anything out loud yet today. That is not unusual in this house. There has not been anybody to say anything to for seven years, unless
"One generation shall laud your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts." — Psalm 145:4 My mother turned the house upside down every September and I have not done it once since she died. Fall cleaning, she called it, and she meant it the way a
"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." — Psalm 23:4 September was Earl's favorite and he never once said so. He would not
"As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease." — Genesis 8:22 The garden after Labor Day is a different place than the garden before it. Nothing happened on Monday. The plants do not know about
"The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective." — James 5:16 I have been praying a different way since the light changed and I did not decide to do it. That is the part I keep turning over. I did not sit down one morning in August
"How very good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity!" — Psalm 133:1 Labor Day, and the town has gone quiet in the particular way it goes quiet on a Monday that is not a Monday. The hardware store is closed. The bank is closed.
"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit." — Romans 15:13 It is Sunday evening and September has started. The week was a quiet one. Monday I sat
"O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever." — Psalm 107:1 The first Sunday of September and the pews were fuller than they have been since June. Not full. Trinity does not get full except at Easter and Christmas and