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Hope in Singing
"Oh, let us rejoice in the Lord, evermore,
When darts of the tempter are flying,
For Satan still dreads, as he oft did of yore,
Our singing much more than our sighing."
Bloggy Business
Just a little informal note to let you know that I have merged my devotional blog – A Door of Hope – with my personal blog here.
So if you were subscribed via email, or Yahoo, or Google Reader, etc., you will not be receiving any more posts from that blog. You can delete it, if you so desire.
I began, last month, to use the category of "A Door of Hope" here on any posts that were devotional in nature. So, if you want to read only devotional posts, you can use the tab above, or you can click on "A Door of Hope" in the categories to the right.
This is just a small attempt to simplify my virtual life. :) I find I have too many accounts, too many blogs, too many places to check in. So, a streamlining is in order, and this was a beginning of that for me.
Thanks…now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
😉
Alesha
A Thought for Today: "I can still believe that a day comes for all of us, however far off it may be, when we shall understand; when these tragedies that now blacken and darken the very air of heaven for us, will sink into their places in a scheme so august, so magnificent, so joyful, that we shall laugh for wonder and delight."~Arthur Christopher Bacon
Foto Friday – Macro Vision
I'm trying to learn how to use the "macro" setting on my camera.
Hmmm…seems like my focus is a bit skewed,
Sorta like my internal focus sometimes…
Only seeing clearly the dried, dying, ugly parts of my life…
Somehow overlooking the new, vibrant bits of color that are popping up all over.
I need to appreciate the new growth, the new beauty…
Inspite of the barren background.
What are you focused on today?
Blessings to you,
Alesha
Some days it is hard to let go – the negative thoughts, the guilt, the anger, the tiredness, the silliness – so that we can embrace what the Lord has for us that day.
This quote helped me: "Wait before God until you feel saturated with His presence; then go forth to your next duty with the conscious freshness and vigor of Christ." ~Dr. Pardington
"The silences of Jesus are as eloquent as His speech and may be a sign, not of His disapproval, but of His approval and of a deep purpose of blessing for you." (Streams in the Desert)
Matthew 15:22 And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.
23 But he answered her not a word…
"She knows Me so intimately, and trusts Me so utterly, that she is independent of words or looks or any outward intimation of My approval. She is not dismayed, not discouraged by any circumstances through which I arrange that she shall pass; she trusts Me when sense and reason and every finer instinct of the natural heart would rebel – because she knows that I am working in her for eternity, and that what I do , though she knows not the explanation now, she will understand hereafter." (Streams in the Desert)
Obtaining Mercy 