Maybe we'll write a bit now

Friends-

It's my birthday today.  Thank you. : )

A plan for the coming year:  I'm going to purpose to write in this blog space, as fearlessly as possible.

 Now, here's a piece I wrote for the June issue of the Calvary Connection.

Learning to Lean

© Dancingthots,  2016

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.”  [Prov. 3:5-6]

Why not lean on my own understanding, Lord?  It’s served me well to date.  I think.

    Turning this proverb around in my mind (yes, searching for understanding), I asked myself, “What would it be like? How would I feel? How would I choose differently throughout the day if I actually trusted the almighty, loving, all-powerful God (I profess to believe in) to care for me, order my steps, provide everything I need?  What if I grasped the truth that he is with me wherever I go, even to the ends of the earth? How would I behave, interact with others, if I truly believed that I have a heavenly father who cares for me.”

I am humbled by this poem by Elizabeth Cheney.

“The Robin and the Sparrow"

Said the robin to the sparrow,

“I should really like to know,

Why these anxious human beings

Rush about and worry so.”

Said the sparrow to the robin,

“Friend I think that it must be,

That they have no Heavenly Father,

Such as cares for you and me.”

That’s worth a meditation moment.