My Lovely Dwelling Place

EQUALITY Juncos and Cardinals are still visiting our bird feeder, there is not a Robin in sight… and it’s snowing – so spring is not here yet despite the calendar.   We are over five days into the President’s 15 Days to Slow the Spread , but it feels like fifty. We had church at home today, and walked in a nearby forest – maintaining our social distance from other like-minded nature lovers. While speaking with my sweet French aunt, I discovered the folks there are sheltering in place and hanker for toilet paper as much as we do. Folks in Colorado, per my son, are adding guns to their hoarding list. I guess the West is still wild. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose – The more things change, the more they stay the same. People all over the world, of all economic and educational backgrounds respond similarly to fear. The only other level playing field that comes immediately to mind is death. In a world that likes to dwell on our differences – ra...

NOW WHAT? It’s cloudy today, and so are our times. Everyday seems to bring more warnings and restrictions. Isn’t it good to know that we have a God who is all-powerful, all-knowing, gracious, compassionate, full of tender mercies toward us, faithful, knowing us intimately – Is anything too hard for Him? Surely, we can trust Him. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us (Romans 8:31-32; 35; 37). Trusting Him doesn’t guarantee we won’t get sick or have financial hardship, but it does mean we can be comforted that our times our in His hands (Psalm 31:15a). Whatever happens we won’t go ...