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2 Jun, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Ok, y’all, so I reached 2 Chron 9 in my morning Bible reading today & here’s the thing about Scripture. I don’t care how many times you’ve done your read-thru, you’re always finding something new. It’s a constant how’d I miss that & Lord, did you just sneak that in this morning?
There I was, minding my own business reading about the Queen of Sheba coming to see King Solomon & then about all his wealth & thinking some of my usual thoughts like, whoa, that’s lot of throne he had built for the palace then I keep reading & get to 2 Chron 9:21 & there it is.
Plain as day. Been sitting on the page all these years & not once have I thought to sit back & picture it. Did you know that every 3 years the ships Solomon sent to Tarshish would bring him back gold, silver, ivory, peacocks &—here it comes right here—apes? I just don’t know.
I’d just never pictured apes afoot the royal palace. Even has a footnote: “or baboons.” Now I knew about all the king’s horses but somehow I failed to meditate on the fortune Solomon amassed in apes. I would not that ye be ignorant, picturing only peacocks on the royal grounds.
Make room in your heart for all the king’s apes.

Because I care,
Sister Beth

who was up too late watching the Sunset over the Lakers and thinking I expect a better game from you dudes than this

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He’s working it out. God, I mean. I’m starting to see specks of light here & there. Fragments that one day, I think, in His glorious presence, will come together with a thousand unseen pieces & bring life to rhyme & reason. After a cycle of years crying WHAT IS EVEN HAPPENING??!
He will, you know. God will work it all out. We are too nearsighted to see it here but, O Known of God, we will see it there. All rhyme and reason that fled us in the dark night will come to light in the bright and beautiful smile of Jesus Christ.
“In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will.”
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Wanted to tell y’all something this morning. I was in the full throes of adulthood, probably not far from middle-age, when it 1st began to occur to me that not all the harsh difficulties in my life were consequences of my past sins long turned-from. It’s a rough way to live,
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Love well.

Often asked how I make it. Hoping a 2-fold reply might help someone.

1) The Lord. This can’t go without saying. Crucial. Nobody gets a chance to speak to me before the Lord speaks to me each day through His word.

2) A handful of people who know how to love well.
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Other times they’ll let me express my exasperation & they’ll jump in there with me and commiserate. At times they will cry with me. Get mad for me. More often they will laugh with me. I say this because I think loving well involves all of these things. Knowing when to speak.
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We were juniors at Texas State at a fraternity-sorority mixer. He was president of his fraternity, I was president of my sorority. Music was loud, people partying pretty hard. Comes over to me. “Can I get you a beer?”
“No, thank you.” Walks away & thinks to himself, maybe she’s
too good for a beer. Lol. Walks back over. “Can I get you a daiquiri?”
“No, thank you.” Pauses. “Ok, a margarita.” I shake my head no then, seeing he needs an explanation, “I don’t drink.” (I was nothing at all if not a card carrying Southern Baptist.) Flummoxed, he walks away.
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