Work Gently#
The most sacred, most ordinary, and most necessary practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God.
The most sacred, most ordinary, and most necessary practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God.
Ii is my guess that you have seen a teenager's disheveled bedroom once or twice. Hmm . . .
Daily there continues a Divine invitation to His presence, it is how the Chief Shepherd gathers His lambs to His heart.
'Call to Me and I will answer you and teach you great and unsearchable things.
Hannah Whitall Smith (1832-1911), converted to Jesus in 1858 through the influence of the Plymouth Brethren.
As I sit in my office many thoughts seem to be racing each other through my mind, none are winning! But, they all keep racing anyway.
And the good Lord would say to those willing to stop and to listen: Label Me as your 'lover'. I AM the ONLY righteous lover to mankind.
To do two things at once is to do neither.
It is as if the Father and the Son already knew, this theme is persistent in both Testaments: Be STILL before the Lord and wait patiently for Him.
Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord.