"You crown the year with your bounty; your wagon tracks overflow with richness." — Psalm 65:11 The garden this morning is in the state I would call honest. Nothing out there is pretending. The bean vines are brown string on the poles. The squash gave out weeks ago
"He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end." — Ecclesiastes 3:11 Tonight a little after eight o'clock the
"Train children in the right way, and when old, they will not stray." — Proverbs 22:6 I taught third grade at Lexington Elementary for five years before I stopped to have babies, and in the fall of 1975 there was a boy in my class named Curtis who
"May those who sow in tears reap with shouts of joy. Those who go out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, carrying their sheaves." — Psalm 126:5-6 It is Sunday evening and I am not going to be able to
"Before they call I will answer, while they are yet speaking I will hear." — Isaiah 65:24 There was a boy in the circle this morning that I did not know was coming, and he was my grandson. I teach the third and fourth graders at Trinity. Eight
"When I think of you on my bed, and meditate on you in the watches of the night; for you have been my help, and in the shadow of your wings I sing for joy." — Psalm 63:6-7 I was awake at three and I did not
"The righteous flourish like the palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They are planted in the house of the LORD; they flourish in the courts of our God. In old age they still produce fruit; they are always green and full of sap." — Psalm 92:
"The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. He fulfills the desire of all who fear him; he also hears their cry, and saves them." — Psalm 145:18-19 Hannah did not call back and I have decided
"Whoever observes the wind will not sow; and whoever regards the clouds will not reap... In the morning sow your seed, and at evening do not let your hands be idle; for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.
"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