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• WAITING ON THE LORD
  I have yet to meet someone who likes waiting. The number of Amazon Prime next-day delivery members testifies to our impatient society. Paying more to get a product sooner has become a preferred lifestyle choice for over 200 million people. Horn honkers, foot-tappers, and irritated comments about the slowness of service seem to be more the norm than the exception, these days. Do our impatient lifestyles reflect in our walk with the Lord?
• WINDOW SHOPPING
  Years ago our loving Lord showed me that ‘shopping’ allows the enemy to plant seeds of discontentment in my thoughts. A new sofa with fresh colors became more attractive than my well-used, faded, reliable, older couch. Bright and cheerfully colored orange, teal, mustard, and red dishes drew me to want to throw out my recently purchased brown plates and bowls. Recently, I realized that home design shows were also planting seeds of discontentment in me. Thoughts of re-painting, and knocking down walls, this layout isn’t ‘good enough’ anymore were cluttering my previously content, cozy thoughts of our home.
• HE SEES YOU
  Oh honey, what’s wrong?’ asked the middle-aged nurse when she saw the tear dribbling down my cheek. ‘It hurts so much,’ my voice weak from the anesthesia whispered. ‘Oh honey, let me give you something for the pain,’ she caringly responded. The post-operative nurse saw me. She saw I had a need before I put it into words. She saw and she did something to relieve my pain, my hurt, and my distress.
• DECISION MAKING
  Is your dream to start a cupcake business of the Lord? Does the Lord want you to uproot your family from all they have ever known and move them across the country to take a promotion? Does the Lord want you to take a position with less pay but would serve more people? Is this the person your friend just introduced you to someone you are supposed to get to know and perhaps marry?
• PLANTING BULBS
  Many of us experience the different climate seasons of the year; spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Some of us even experience the other seasons; football, baseball, basketball, tennis, and golf. As the World Series and autumn approaches, I once again find myself buying daffodil, tulip, allium, hyacinth, and iris bulbs to plant. It has become as much a tradition as Thanksgiving. During the World Series, we plant bulbs.

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