Black-and-white back view of three violinists playing their parts in a symphony concerto

Your unique voice

You have an instrument. You have a voice. Be blessed to stay before God as he teaches you. Be blessed to play your part.

In the center of the frame, between a rough wood-plank fence in the front and a green forest backed by blue mountaintops in the rear, is the cornfield at Antietam - the site of a fierce Civil War battle and the single bloodiest day in American history.
Cornfield at Antietam

Redeeming the past

  • Post category:From: We Confess!
  • Post last modified:March 16, 2024

Mini-post. Image of the cornfield at Antietam, where my great-great-grandfather fought. Quote about repeating the past and redeeming the past, from We Confess! The Civil War, the South, and the Church.

Closeup of new branch with a cluster of green leaves growing from the side of a large oak

Restoration

When God restores, he puts things back the way he created - only better.

Combine reaping behind field of sunflowers

I’ll reap in joy

  • Post category:Living Life
  • Post last modified:March 13, 2024

Mini-post. "They that sow in tears shall reap in joy." A Bible verse, a song and an image that have cheered me in the night.

Cozy corner, resting place: 2 chairs with cushions and pillows on a sun porch amid plants

I’ll rest

  • Post category:Living Life
  • Post last modified:March 16, 2024

"Come and rest here. Come and lay your burdens down."

Feet of a person in athletic shoes running down a narrow, unpaved path.

I’ll run

  • Post category:Living Life
  • Post last modified:March 17, 2024

Mini-post, with a song for the road. "I'll run, I'll run. I'm gonna run this race to hear You say, 'Well done.'"

A double rainbow arches across a wooded mountain and the grassy valley at its base.

Profound forgiven-ness

“If my people who are called by my name humble themselves ... then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”

A man with lantern looks very tiny, standing under a vast night sky filled with stars.

Before the face of God

An upstart named Elijah stood before Ahab, Israel’s king. Elijah had no credentials that would have impressed Ahab. First Kings 17:1 describes him simply as, “Elijah, who was from Tishbe…