I wish I was mature enough not to watch the Oprah interview of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle tonight on CBS. But I’m not. Thing is, I have a house guest and I don’t know if she likes watching TV.
I’m gonna say “that’s a loaded piece of toast” from now on. That’s gonna bless me right there because someone’s always unloading on my toast.
Way to come through, Queen E!!! I’m about to fix her some tea.
Gonna need to see this dude in my office.
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Hebrews 6 this morning. A word caught my eye in yesterday‘s reading (ch 5) that I almost wrote on but the Spring sunshine wooed me to the woods. It popped up again in Ch 6 today so I’m going with it. The word is “lazy.” Disclaimer before I even begin: exhaustion is not laziness.
I can’t think of anything that has exhausted me more thoroughly than this pandemic. Isolation is exhausting. Hypervigilance is exhausting. For those who fell ill, sickness is exhausting. Fear & grief are demoralizingly exhausting. So please don’t get that confused here. But let’s
reflect on what Heb 5&6 are saying about laziness. Heb 6 is straight forward & so needed by weary servants. Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord: “For God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you demonstrated for his name by serving the saints...Now we desire
My Scripture reading today was Hebrews 3. Reflecting on Vv.12-13.
“Watch out, brothers and sisters, so that there won’t be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But encourage one another daily, while it is still called today, so that
none of you is hardened by sin’s deception.”
The last year has been brutal. So much sickness and death. Grief upon grief with little or no way to process it in community or, in many cases, with family. Unthinkable.Relentless fears and fights and fissures. No one is immune to
the cumulative effects of unrelieved turmoil. One way we humans commonly cope is by hardening our hearts. Loving seems to make it all hurt worse. It leaves us vulnerable. Woundable. So it’s just easier to tighten the lid. We cancel people to keep from caring for people. Why care
Reading through Hebrews presently. 2nd chapter today. By the time I came to the end of it, I felt like standing to my feet & shouting a thousand amens to God. So what I’m going to do here in this thread is throw out some verses from it & a comment here & there for encouragement.
“For in subjecting everything to [Jesus], [God] left nothing that is not subject to him.” V.8
This reminder and powerful wording encouraged me tremendously. I got to stop here & intercede for my beloved @LiciB with fresh strength. “Jesus, her body & mind are subject to you!...”
“For in bringing many sons & daughters to glory, it was entirely appropriate that God—for whom & through whom all things exist—should make the source of their salvation perfect through sufferings.” V.10 Good grief, the cost.
Keith’s inexplicably got All Elite Wrestling on. We’ve never watched wrestling in our lives but Shaq’s on it & I can’t look away. He’s mostly slapping the other dude’s head. Shaq’s knocked out. Now the women are wrestling in 2 pieces. Punching each other like they’re on Twitter.
Granted I’m new to this but, best I can tell, there aren’t actual rules.
Only one of them’s even wearing a mask. It’s a lizard I think.
Good morning, praying Saints. Here are your 2 @LiciB pics for today. 1st: our queen being the Queen. 2nd: Lici hates feet. Hates them. So, of course, there are a million shots of her with someone’s foot in them. Update: y’all, there are honestly so many mixed messages coming from
test results, reports, etc, that I’m going to wait for something clearer before posting it. Many of you know how this kind of thing goes. You’re left asking, “So is that good news or bad? And, what does that word mean?” But here is what I know for sure: 1) she’s not awake yet.
2) We need a miracle from our very gracious Savior and Healer. Really, we need a series of miracles. “1 word from You,” Jesus.
And, 3) We are unspeakably grateful for your willingness to cry out to the Lord with us on Lici’s behalf. We get sudden outbursts of joy when we imagine
Gonna have a lot to tell y’all on the other side. Sleeting out here now so still precarious but I have WiFi for the 1st time. This clip’s from a more innocent time when we were only 12 hrs into no power & before we slept in a 33 degree house. I’m still in these same clothes. LOL
To give y’all some idea of how cold my house has been, when we 6 (Keith, his 85 year old mom, me & 3 dogs) sat right on the hearth of the butane fireplace in our den, we still had frosty breath. Our well is frozen along with our pipes but we saw it coming & collected water.