-
2020: Week 10 — Remembering
Do you take the time to remember milestones in your life? How do you mark them so that you don’t forget them? Some people, like me, are journalers. For others, photos mark their milestones. Maybe it’s a collection of something else. Whatever your method, I think it’s important to reflect on where we’ve been as we look forward to the future. This week, I finished up reading Numbers and started reading Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy opens with Moses recapping the past 40 or so years to the Israelites who are preparing to enter the Promised Land. As he describes how they got to that point, I can’t help but notice God’s faithfulness…
-
How 2,000 prayers changed me
My love, Tonight we’ll pray our 2,000th prayer together. Something about that number feels special, and I want to take a minute to thank you for it. Thank you for leading our relationship in daily prayer and for choosing to love Jesus more than you love me. I never planned to be with you, but God had better plans. We started praying together because we wanted to see what God would do with the friendship we both desired. You intrigued me, and I guess I intrigued you. Somehow we started a friendship, and I think only God could explain how that happened. Praying with you became the highlight of my…
-
2020: Week 8
This week’s personal Bible reading ended Leviticus and started Numbers, so it focused more on the law and the census. In my small group, we studied Hebrews 4:14-5, which discusses Jesus being a better high priest. I studied the laws for the high priest at the same time I studied Jesus being a better one. It shouldn’t amaze me when God lines up my studies, but it does sometimes. Much of my focus this week has been on God’s faithfulness to His promises and His mercy for my weaknesses. In the ’90s, Steve Green released a children’s album with songs that came from the Psalms. It was probably my favorite…
-
2020: Week 5 (sort of)
This week is a little different because we’re now officially in February! And February is Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) Awareness Month. I think it’s been three years since I was diagnosed. The timeline is blurry in my mind because my retina specialist monitored it for about a year before RP became official. I’ve written about it before, so I won’t bore you with the details now. I don’t have any updates about my RP because it’s holding steady, praise God! I ask that you say a prayer for me, though. I’ll have my next appointment in March. I haven’t noticed any vision changes, which is a good indicator of little to…
-
The LORD is faithful
Does a thought that you just can’t shake ever enter your mind? You may have moved on from it, but something happens around you that reminds you of it and brings it back to the surface, like a catchy song. For the past six months or so, the unshakable thought for me is God’s faithfulness. A few Bible verses I read and a few songs I heard have kept this theme at the forefront of my mind. God is faithful. I’ve known that truth since I was young, but my actions haven’t always proved that I believed it. In my mind, if something doesn’t have at least two contingency plans,…
You May Also Like
‘Do you know what the best smell in the world is?’
