love at first read
Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. G.K. Chesterton
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because life is so full...
...of color, blessings, love, pain, longing, hope, joy, gifts 1255. Korean birthday cake 1271. When my car stereo actually works 1287. Little boys under the table 1289. Choruses of "I love you"s 1298. How our family always asks how things went 1301. Grocery store guys giving away carnations 1303. Laughing babies on youtube.com 1316. Learning about holy anxiety 1322. An acapella song on a sunny street corner 1332. Stargazing on the driveway 1334. Coyote choruses 1343. Names for special colors, like "verdigris" 1371. Two students discussing another student with a cramp in her leg... "I thought you said Keleese had a CRACK in her leg." "No, not a crack, it's a CRAP." 1390. Dad making me coffee 1397. Being told I look like a mama duck with my line of little ones following 1402. A 1950's novel for a lazy Saturday morning 1448. How people I don't even know come up to me and say "I read your a...
every good thing
" Oh, fear the Lord , you His saints! There is no want to those who fear Him. The young lions lack and suffer hunger; But those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing." Psalm 34:9-10 What does it mean that I, a God-seeker by grace, shall not lack any good thing? It does not merely mean that once I reach heaven I will be given every good thing, though I do believe this is true. It does not mean that I will accumulate a large collection of good things spaced out over the span of my life, with gaps of want and need in-between. I take this to mean that the Author of my story and the Designer of my heart knows what is good for me and what I am ready for and gives it to me in the right quantity and at the right time. Today I have every good thing. Some of the things I wish for today may be good for another day but they can not be good for right now or I would already have them. And, some things ...