I Love You

Posted on December 8, 2011 by SMHG

My thoughts this morning turned to how especially wonderful my relationship with the Lord is. Rather than being able to eloquently expound His marvelous greatness, I’ll just stop with these few lines He gave me to sing back to Him this morning while driving to work. Truly He is beyond mere words.

Oh the peace of this hour, Is not a soft rain shower
It’s, I Love You
No one ever need cower, Before this mighty strong tower
That says, I Love you
His love blossoms like a flower, When your soul has been scoured
With, I Love you
The sweetness will not sour, In His invitation power
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Remember

Posted on December 7, 2011 by SMHG

It is a quiet day, early in the morning. No new crisis, no new disaster, not a need for urgent prayer. It is a day of solemn remembrance. Yet the world has changed since breakfast. I haven’t heard how or where or who or why, but I will. Early in the morning seventy years ago, people were thinking about the quiet day they were entering. Some were dreading the circumstances before them while others opened their eyes with glee and joy that morning. In a very short period of time that would all change. Those fears and joys would disappear. Marriages which seemed to be in the unstoppable process of being torn apart were suddenly put on hold. Wedding plans would soon be altered dramatically. Babies would continue to be born and people still died, but something was about to change. It was a small quiet America military outpost on an island far away from the peaceful serenity of a rich and powerful nation overseeing its affairs. Early on that morning in December 1941, everything changed.

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Prayer Request for Gavin

Posted on December 6, 2011 by SMHG

In each mysterious tragedy we turn from or to the only real source of comfort and strength. We are given many examples in scripture of how the faithless and faithful did just as we do. It seems to us that life should be a bit kinder, fairer perhaps, to the youngest and the innocent. When we are of full age and ability to resist and fight back and stand as a warrior in the battle, then it is that we believe it to be understandable for the assault to come. But Lord not the children. Not my little son. In my book Ripples , I relate the devastating tragedy we were faced with when our youngest son was four weeks old; Four weeks! Who prepares you for this? I imagine in my heart the anguish of my daughter’s friend who this week is having a serious brain procedure performed on her young infant. I can somewhat empathize because of the paths we have walked with our own and yet, I have not been where she is at. Continue reading →

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Why Writers Write

Posted on December 5, 2011 by SMHG

I love to do just what so many others in our literate world enjoy. To sit at my keyboard, or take pen and paper in hand, to record somehow those thoughts and ideas which flow through my mind. Millions of people are gifted, talented or inspired to be the ready scribe spoken of in Ezra 7:6. Throughout recorded histories men, women, boys and girls have sought to express themselves in ways that would allow others to know and understand events and times even though they were not there. Continue reading →

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