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“Hitherto hath the Lord helped us” (I Sam. 7:12). The word “hitherto” seems like a hand pointing in the direction of the past. Twenty years or seventy, and yet “hitherto hath the Lord helped us!” Through poverty, through wealth, through sickness, through health; at home, abroad, on the land, on the sea; in honor, in dishonor, [...] They sat side by side on the hillside, silently gazing into the starry sky. Finally, the boy spoke. “Would you tell me about that night, Jacob?” The old man said nothing. The boy persisted. “Please, Jacob. I won’t laugh at you. I promise. I really want to hear the story.” The old man finally answered. “No matter, [...] Autumn is my favorite season of the year, and the weather I have come to expect and enjoy in October has just arrived in the last few days. Thus I post an older article about the feelings Autumn brings with it. —– Golden Autumn by name, she heralds inevitable liberation from the restricting bonds of summer heat. [...] “It came to pass . . . that the brook dried up” (1 Kings 17:7). The education of our faith is incomplete if we have not learned that there is a providence of loss, a ministry of failing and of fading things, a gift of emptiness. The material insecurities of life make for its spiritual establishment. [...] The unexpected death of Jenny, our firstborn and only daughter, ushered in a period of difficult adjustment for me and my family. And though I certainly believed in heaven, an unusual and instantaneous experience transformed my abstract conceptof heaven into a settled reality. I clearly recall having been discouraged and thinking about her death when without [...] This is another selection from “Searchings in the Silence” (George Matheson, 1895) that I hope will be an encouragement to others who may sometimes feel they have suffered too many losses when life has taken hard turns. —– THE RETRIEVING OF YESTERDAY Isaiah i.x. 3 v. “They joy before Thee according to the joy in harvest” The kind of joy [...] |
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