Soul Sister Time

                      God is good!–all the time.  From the beginning of time God has demonstrated His goodness.  God proclaimed daily creation acts as being good in Genesis 1.  Though the reality of sin has invited badness into time, each day still contains the goodness of God.  We are given time on earth to take in God’s goodness.  Psalm 34:1 says: I will extol the Lord at all times; his praise will always be on my lips .             Each day is full of goodness.  Sometimes you just need to stop and think before you can find the good that He sends into your life on a daily basis.  Losing faith in the goodness of God is the beginning of sickness of soul.  Souls that can’t see God’s goodness begin to search for pleasure, work, wisdom, power, and many other remedies from the world.  It is only the goodne...

            Thanksgiving reminds us to be grateful.   If we wait until one time a year to think about what we are grateful for, we do a disservice to our souls.   Each day God hides opportunities to know Him more.   We have every reason to be grateful for every moment of every day.             The worst day of my life will surely be the morning I awoke to find my husband unconscious in our home.   Even on the worst day there was a long list of people and experiences of God’s love for which I could be grateful.   I was immediately surrounded by half the staff of ministers with whom Brian worked.   I only made one call to his assistant, and everyone came running to be by his side (and mine).   I’m so grateful that in the midst of my shock my sister-in-law had the good sense to buy Rachel a flight and get her on her way—she arrived just aft...

                I don’t know what spoke to my soul more this week—God’s amazing faithfulness or my pitiful lack of faith.   Faith is a gift from God.   When I have great faith, I have Him to thank and not myself.                   I guess that is why I am so amazed by my lack of faith and so comforted by witnessing how little effect it has on God’s faithfulness to me.   Just this week I experienced an answer to prayer that I have been praying for over the last six years.   God even gave me a verse to go along with my prayer—it was a promise of what He would do.   Over the six years I claimed that promise and found assurance in it when nothing looked promising—even the opposite was happening.                 God can make bold pro...