-
Recent Posts
Categories
-
Selected Posts
Currently reading
Data from Goodreads
Not currently reading anything.
Author Archives: lsimonds
A Pound Of Cure
“Do not be afraid of sudden terror or of the ruin of the wicked, when it comes, for the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.” Proverbs 3:25-26 This month’s LOG came to me … Continue reading
Posted in 2015
Comments Off on A Pound Of Cure
Stubborn Stain Removal
“Why is Your apparel red, and Your garments like one who treads in the winepress?” Isaiah 63:2 My mother’s generation was really good at getting stains out of clothing. Everything was less disposable then – clothes needed to last – … Continue reading
Posted in 2015
Comments Off on Stubborn Stain Removal
Lost In Translation
“It is the Spirit Who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit and they are life.” John 6:63 John Steinbeck is credited with having said words take on flavors and aromas like … Continue reading
Posted in 2015
Comments Off on Lost In Translation
Knock Yourself Out
“Keep on asking and it will be given you; keep on seeking and you will find; keep on knocking [reverently] and [the door] will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7 Amplified Bible This is a luxurious (for me) post in … Continue reading
Posted in 2015
Comments Off on Knock Yourself Out
One False Thing
“You ran well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? This persuasion does not come from Him who calls you. A little leaven leavens the whole lump.” Galatians 5:7-9 Irwin Shaw gave an interview to the Paris Review in 1953 … Continue reading
Posted in 2015
Comments Off on One False Thing
Stella!
“This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.” John 6:39 About a year and a half ago, against … Continue reading
Posted in 2015
Comments Off on Stella!
As Gracious As I Might Be
“Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings; do not spare; lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes. For you shall expand to the right and to the left, and your descendants … Continue reading
Posted in 2014
Comments Off on As Gracious As I Might Be
On Wisemen And Wiseguys
“Then he said to me, “Write: Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!” And he said to me, “These are the true sayings of God!” And I fell at his feet to worship him. … Continue reading
Posted in 2014
Comments Off on On Wisemen And Wiseguys
Flood Abatement
“So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun; when the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against … Continue reading
Posted in 2014
Comments Off on Flood Abatement
Time Is On Our Side, Yes It is
“Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. ‘The LORD is my portion,’ says my soul, ‘Therefore I hope in Him!’” Lamentations 3:22-24 This from Lynne … Continue reading
Posted in 2014
Comments Off on Time Is On Our Side, Yes It is
Twenty-Five And Holding
“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.” Ecclesiastes 3:11 NIV I was a young woman when I … Continue reading
Posted in 2014
Comments Off on Twenty-Five And Holding
Altars and Ambition
“As for man, his days are like grass; as the flower of the field, so he flourishes. For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more. But the mercy of the Lord … Continue reading
Posted in 2014
Comments Off on Altars and Ambition