One of the gifts I have received in the mail during my stay
here was a book from my mother. Ann Voskamp’s new book The Greatest Gift
is an advent reading that starts with scripture, then has a short devotional
writing, next there is a daily challenge to get the reader to practically apply
the lessons of the devo, lastly there is a journaling section for the reader to
reflect on what they read and did that day. One of the practical applications
of today’s reading, entitled “Life Begins as a Love Story” was to stop to
marvel at the miracles that occur every second around us in creation. “So go to
the window. Go to the hills, the desert, the corner, the back door, and be
ravished and taken and awed, and you who were made by Love, made for love – be still
and know and watch love come down. The answer to deep anxiety is the deep
adoration of God.” There are a lot of different things we could talk about from
these simple instructions, but today I wanted to share with you some of the
places that I have been to and left awed by. So here they are in no particular
order:
Northern Ireland
Loch Lomond Scotland
Wadi Rum
The Red Sea
Petra
Bird's Eye View
O Lord our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
you have established strength because of your foes,
to still the enemy and the avenger.
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babies and infants,
you have established strength because of your foes,
to still the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
4 what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
4 what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?
5 Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings
and crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;
you have put all things under his feet,
7 all sheep and oxen,
and also the beasts of the field,
8 the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
and crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;
you have put all things under his feet,
7 all sheep and oxen,
and also the beasts of the field,
8 the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
9 O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
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