Today, a little heart-to-heart...
Today's post is inspired in part by our summer sermon-series
entitled Joy in the Journey,
in part by today's devotion from Springs in the Valley
(or aka Streams in the Desert Vol.3)
and in part by a heart-to-heart visit with a dear friend yesterday,
as we encouraged each other to 'keep on'.
Phil.1:21
For to me, to live is Christ...
Acts 17:28
...for in Him we live and move and have our being,
as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’
1 Pet.1:8
...whom having not seen you love.
Though now you do not see Him, yet believing,
you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,
What melds the simple and sublime
Our hurts with hope and peace
What transcends the titles of Time
And bids its tensions cease
And cheers our hearts when things go wrong
And doubt and despair taunt
And bids us to rejoice always
It is to love without restraint
To forgive and forget
It is to walk and not grow faint
To fear not, as we walk by faith
With courage naught can dim
Because greater is He in us
Than any foe we face
Through the pow’r of God’s grace
What frees us from indebted strain
Of ‘have I done enough?’
Whether aged or youth
In each sorrow we undergo
What restores joy again
With power none can overthrow
Janet Martin
