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A Joyful Season Through it All

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“In your silent night, when you’re not alright, lift your eyes and behold HIM.” -Behold HIM by Francesca Battistelli Having an illness means that it doesn’t go away during special times in life. Still sick during the holidays. In fact, my illness has even been processing further during this season. But, even as I lay in bed with debilitating symptoms unable to live life, I can still have joy this Christmas season. Doing family worship every single day for advent (November 28-January 6) has been one of my most cherished memories these days. It is like a mini service every day with Scripture, prayer, meditations, creeds, catechism questions, and adorations! It has really set my mind to be excited on CHRIST. I’m so blessed, so blessed, y’all. Through the raw tears, through the unending pain, through my life spent in bed, through it all, I have an eternal joy in JESUS my LORD. HE holds me. I cannot express how grateful and joyful I am. Through the hard news, through the waiting, thro

No Hope but CHRIST

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 Lamentaions 3:21 " But this I call to mind,  and  therefore I have hope:" Morning Notes : Lamentaions Hello friends! This morning I read Lamentaions. LORD Willing I will be posting a lot of these short "Morning Notes" blogs as they help me gather my thoughts from my morning Scripture reading. A huge theme that struct my attention was the theme of no more comfort. Jerusalem had their comfort in this temporal world and turned away from the LORD.(Jeremiah 25:7) But, now that they have fallen, all their comfort is gone.   " Zion stretches out her hands,                           " she dwells now among the nations, but  there is none to comfort her;"                          but finds no resting place"      "she has  among all her  lovers                                  " Her princes have become like                    none to comfort her;"                                           deer  that find no pasture;"