Cormorants, Comrades and Tender Words
Since posting John Piper's essay we've driven up and down the coast visiting beautiful beaches (Corona Del Mar, La Jolla, back to the Balboa Pier, Huntington Beach and ended in watching some tremendous waves (12 feet)and buggy-boarding at the Wedge. Heading back to luscious Central Florida on friday, getting reacquainted with the heat and the humidity. But that is where our children our church and our hearts live.
Spent some time with dear comrades: brothers and sisters in the Lord. We've raised our kids together, worship our King, watched as loved ones died and others who still suffer living in this broken world. But in spending time together, Heaven came down and we felt 'Home'.
I'm adding some tender words from Charles Spurgeon. A couple years ago an elder in my church sent this to encourage me. It still does and I hope it will you.
Charles Spurgeon on Suffering: "O child of suffering, be patient. God has not passed you over in his providence. He who feeds sparrows will also furnish you with what you need. Don't sit down in despair, but hope on. hope ever. Take up the arms of faith against a sea of trouble and your opposition shall yet end your distress. There is One who cries for you. His eye is fixed on you, His heart beats with pity for your woe, and His omnipotent hand shall yet bring you the needed help. The darkest cloud shall scatter itself in showers of mercy. The blackest gloom shall give place to the morning. if you are one of His family. He will bind up your wounds and heal your broken heart. Dont doubt His grace because of your tribulation, but believe that He loves you as much in seasons of trouble as in times of happiness. Tested believer, your Lord has a tear bottle in which the costly drops of sacred grief are put away, and a book in which your holy groanings are numbered. Before long He will comfortably appear, to your soul's joy, and make you put away the sackcloth and ashes of lengthy waiting, and put on the scarlet and fine linen of full fruition."
Cormorants are not nuts or insects but black, long necked and beaked birds that gather on the shores of La Jolla along with a few pelicans and seagulls. Fascinated with their symetrical gathering, all in several rows, as if the ocean were a drama they were watching (maybe it is).BYE>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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Spent some time with dear comrades: brothers and sisters in the Lord. We've raised our kids together, worship our King, watched as loved ones died and others who still suffer living in this broken world. But in spending time together, Heaven came down and we felt 'Home'.
I'm adding some tender words from Charles Spurgeon. A couple years ago an elder in my church sent this to encourage me. It still does and I hope it will you.
Charles Spurgeon on Suffering: "O child of suffering, be patient. God has not passed you over in his providence. He who feeds sparrows will also furnish you with what you need. Don't sit down in despair, but hope on. hope ever. Take up the arms of faith against a sea of trouble and your opposition shall yet end your distress. There is One who cries for you. His eye is fixed on you, His heart beats with pity for your woe, and His omnipotent hand shall yet bring you the needed help. The darkest cloud shall scatter itself in showers of mercy. The blackest gloom shall give place to the morning. if you are one of His family. He will bind up your wounds and heal your broken heart. Dont doubt His grace because of your tribulation, but believe that He loves you as much in seasons of trouble as in times of happiness. Tested believer, your Lord has a tear bottle in which the costly drops of sacred grief are put away, and a book in which your holy groanings are numbered. Before long He will comfortably appear, to your soul's joy, and make you put away the sackcloth and ashes of lengthy waiting, and put on the scarlet and fine linen of full fruition."
Cormorants are not nuts or insects but black, long necked and beaked birds that gather on the shores of La Jolla along with a few pelicans and seagulls. Fascinated with their symetrical gathering, all in several rows, as if the ocean were a drama they were watching (maybe it is).BYE>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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