“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord,

thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end”

(Jeremiah 29:11).

Winter Words
Mrs. Brewster spends her days collecting balls of snow
To throw—complete with hidden hearts of ice inside.   
When Mrs. B. confronts her boarder, snowflakes fly;
Then Mrs. Brewster flings cold things with careful aim
To maim this hoity-toity teacher whom she boards.     
Winter triumphs in this life as sin and snowballs grow.
 
Teacher spends her days dispensing light, then sweeps the snow
At night. She stoops, collecting water for outside—   
To make her garden green. When roses bloom, she picks
A thick bouquet; this birthday gift of grace she gives  
Her hostile hostess in return for winter words. 

Summer triumphs in this life as love and flowers grow.

“It is sweet to be nothing and less than nothing 

that Christ may be all in all.”

—David Brainerd

Roller Rink

See that girl in blue jeans

Who’s going nowhere, fast?

(Empty, endless circles

Remind me of my past.)

 

Love that girl in blue jeans;

She’s different, yet the same.

Now she glides in shadow,

So offer her your flame. …

 

Now that girl in blue jeans

Is lighting up the floor.

Rolling past the snack bar,

She’s headed for the door.

 

Denim dreams forsaken,

A relic of the past—

Now that girl’s on fire!

She’s going somewhere, fast.

“The Lord continues to empty us in order to teach us to lay aside all self-reliance, that we may cling to Christ alone.” —Paul Washer

“God gives us of the good things of this life, 

not only for necessity, 

but for delight, 

that we may not only serve Him, 

but serve Him cheerfully.” 

—Matthew Henry

“Those that look with contempt upon worldly honours 

shall be recompensed with the honour that cometh from God, 

which is the true honour.” 

—Matthew Henry

“God’s servants must think nothing below them but sin.”

—Matthew Henry