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Every once in a while, I spontaneously take a photo of myself, whatever I am doing, to send to my grandchildren. You see, they are always on my mind, in my thoughts. I want them to know that I love them, every day, all the time. I pray for them. I plan for times of fun when we can be together. I pray that their hearts would know and understand the goodness and love of God because they have seen it in me and in their parents and in those around them.
They are storing up a clear picture of God through those of us who are acting out His tangible love and grace in day to day realities in their lives. And hopefully when they are teens and more aware of a fallen, chaotic world, they will remember, “But I have seen, learned, and felt the goodness and love of God throughout my life, and I believe there is light, hope, beauty to be found in this troublesome world.”
Today on my Tea Time Tuesday podcast, I have book recommendations, a recipe, an encounter with police, my experience with pickle ball, and all sorts of ponderings about life and living.
We will talk about what it looks like for us to tangibly live out over a lifetime, a life of devotion to Christ. Looking at those who chose not to believe in the goodness and truth of God (Adam and Eve, the Israelites, the spies who became as grasshoppers!—I do not want my legacy to be a grasshopper! :)). In others, we find warning to resist the temptation of complaining, turning our hearts away from God, to our own downfall. Believing when we cannot see, practicing faithfulness when no one else sees is a long tradition of faithful saints throughout history.
Here is a Middleburg prayer that expresses some of my heart:
Almighty God and most merciful Father… we fall down before your majesty, asking you,f rom the bottom of our hearts, that this seed of your Word, now sown among us, may take such deep root, that neither the burning heat of persecution cause it to wither, nor the thorny cares of life choke it.
More on At Home With Sally. Happy Tuesday to you all.