Yes, I know that sounds pretty drastic. But really, I didn’t expect spring to arrive quite so suddenly. You’d think that once we started having a couple warm days, there might be a few tentative shoots, a few sprigs, a faint flush of green in the lawn. I mean, at the beginning of this week,…
Archive | April, 2010
Waiting for David, Part Two
by Abbie For Part One, click here. My pastor was teaching on a topic that (ironically enough) seemed to go hand-in-hand with the temptation I was struggling with. The teaching was on I Samuel, and one thing my pastor said stuck with me. He said, “Don’t settle for 2nd or 3rd or even 4th best,…
Waiting for David, Part One
by Abbie There’s a certain temptation I’ve been facing lately; the temptation to try to “help” God along. And of course by “help” I mean, “completely wreck everything by trying to take charge of what I don’t understand, specifically: my future”. You probably know what I’m talking about. (At least…I hope you do. Or else…
Take along a book…
March. Sometimes it comes “in like a lion and out like a lamb.” But no matter what the weather was like in your corner of the world, here at ylcf.org March came in and out with books! We talked about old books and new books. Little-known titles and best-sellers. You shared stories of your own…
A Hymn for Good Friday
Stricken, smitten, and afflicted, See Him dying on the tree! ’Tis the Christ by man rejected; Yes, my soul, ’tis He, ’tis He! ’Tis the long expected prophet, David’s Son, yet David’s Lord; Proofs I see sufficient of it: ’Tis a true and faithful Word. Tell me, ye who hear Him groaning, Was there ever…
