Dropping a dime in my virtual jukebox spun “He’ll Take Care of the Rest” by Keith Green. A funny and clever song with amazing piano rifts. There is a verse about Noah where his neighbors would laugh at his pet giraffe. Anyone who can rhyme “giraffe” is fine by me. Then the Lord said He …

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Lord, may You be praised in the thirsting and Glorified in the quenching. Amen…

Does my life reflect Your Glory?

May each breath be a soundtrack of praise that the Lord may inhabit all that I am, so that others may know all He is.

Slow down, He says. Don’t work so hard. Read more. Write more. Sing more. Rub your wife’s feet more. Breathe.

I drop my sword and cry for just a while
Deep inside this armor
The warrior is a child.

Clay does in fact get to choose: Whose Hands we allow to form us.

I am grateful that God sees all the bruises we try to hide, both inside and out, and can heal them with a touch.

Joyce Adams, Mom, Grandmother, Great-Grandmother.

Enough Said.