By “it” I mean tranquil domesticity. What’s grace got to do with tranquil domesticity? If you’re here reading this blog, I’ll go ahead and assume you’re “for” tranquil domesticity (the concept—not the blog… I mean… I hope you’re also for the blog…).
Does the thought of planning make you feel weak in the knees? The idea of goal-setting make you feel queasy? And resolutions–are they just a setup for certain failure?
Continue readingHappy New Year, y’all! After the year that was 2020–I’ve heard so many other metaphors for it, but we’ll just call it a “year”–I let Christmas linger a bit into the new year. (Just got my tree down a couple of days ago!) I’ve been feeling like we all need a little extra dose of the “Peace on Earth, good will towards men,” that the angels were talking about–you know the ones who appeared to the shepherds on that first Christmas…?
Speaking of peace on Earth, one of my favorite Christmas carols contains the line, “And in despair I bowed my head. ‘There is no peace on Earth,’ I said. ‘For hate is strong and mocks the song, of peace on Earth, good-will to men!’” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow penned these words following personal tragedy as well as during a particularly bleak time in our nation’s history. But how true they ring today… no? HWL’s poem is shockingly relatable! Some days it just seems like the hits just keep on coming and the whole world has gone crazy.
Continue reading“But the one who endures to the end, he will be saved.” Matthew 24:13
Don’t you just love it when a theme keeps popping up in your life, in every conversation, everything you read or listen to? I have never heard an audible voice from the Lord, but when I start hearing the same words from a dozen different directions, I believe that the Lord is using those sources to get my attention.
A little over four weeks into staying at home for the greater good of stemming the spread of COVID-19, some of us may find ourselves wondering if this is one of those times that the world irreversibly changes. The wisdom of Solomon tells us there is nothing new under the sun… and that is certainly true. In fact, the older I get and the more I learn about many of the horrors of history, that truth is continually reinforced. History does periodically repeat itself, so in that sense, what’s new to us is not something new “under the sun.”
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