Lost Letters

  Christmas time is always a time I consider Mary. I don’t worship her but most definitely revere her. Maybe it’s the woman in me, or maybe the mother in me that makes me consider all the things she may have considered, or pondered as the Bible says. To be as young as she was and to be as faithful as she was simply amazes me. Says so much about how she was being raised, probably by an extremely faithful mom and dad. I think about how she must’ve felt after the Angel of God visited her- I have to wonder if she didn’t giggle a little and be like me? Why me? How -I’m literally just a girl. Did she think am I crazy -was this actually a dream, am I losing it? But her faith!!! She may have questioned and wondered the whys and what for’s and how’s but she still said yes!!! She simply just said, “I am the Lords servant. May everything you have said about me come true.” And she praised her God through it. He didn’t given her too much to go on either. Just a visit from an angel with the expl...

  Monday morning, just a few weeks before Christmas and my list of to-do and to get done is long, but here I sit pondering, heart racing because God reveals when we seek. I’ve been doing an Advent reading that I found on IG. At first I was like this is strange readings for Advent, but daily I’m amazed. Today was Psalms 16. I flipped to it and had lots of notes jotted down beside it. First I’d written “Messianic Psalm” beside it then I’d written a different interpretation beside it as well. Think this was chapter that I was reading when I was trying to put down some boundaries when boundaries didn’t seem very Christ-like, another post for another day. Today, I pondered on David’s words and how his words literally pointed to Christ!!   Read this so many times but then when I read it in a place of Advent it just changes things. First, this chapter David wrote is just plain comforting.  “Lord, you are my inheritance, my cup of blessing. You guard all that is mine.” v.5 Then, ...