“For the sake of Jacob my servant,
of Israel my chosen,
I summon you by nameand bestow on you a title of honor ( Read more... )

Hello, ladies! I am so sorry for my extended absence! I haven't been on the Internet much lately, but I hope to keep up with this journal much more often then I have been of late ( Read more... )

“[God] can exact nothing from man that He has not exacted from Himself. He has Himself gone through the whole of human experience, from the trivial irritations of family life and the cramping restrictions of hard work and lack of money to the worst horrors of pain and humiliation, defeat, despair, and death. When He was a man, He played the man. He ( Read more... )

“To love a person means to see him as God intended him to be.” ~Dostoevsky

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A quote by Helmur Thielicke:“When Jesus loved a guilt-laden person and helped him, he saw in him an erring child of God. He saw in him a human being whom his Father loved and grieved over because he was going wrong. He saw him as God originally designed and meant him to ( Read more... )

“My Savior loves, my Savior lives, my Savior's always there for me. My God he was, my God he is, my God he's always going to be.”

~lyrics from a Christian musician whose name fails me at the moment...

My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken. -Psalms 62:1-2

“Surely he has done great things.
Be not afraid, O land;
be glad and rejoice.
Surely the LORD has done great things.
Be not afraid, O wild animals,
for the open pastures are becoming greenThe trees are bearing their fruit ( Read more... )

“Walk about Zion, go around her,
count her towers,
consider well her ramparts,
view her citadels,
that you may tell of them to the
next generation.
For this God is our God for ever and
ever;
he will be our guide even to the
end.”

-Psalm 48:12-14

“Since my youth, O God, you have taught me,
and to this day I declare your marvelous deeds.

Even when I am old and gray,
do not forsake me, O God,
till I declare your power to the next generation,
your might to all who are to come.”

~Psalm 71:17-18

So I journey with rejoicing
Toward the city of God's light,
While each day my joy is deeper,
And the pathway grows more bright. ~Hoffman