Sometimes we just don’t know how empty we are…. How tired…. How long the road has been… How alone we feel…. Until one too many things pile up. And suddenly we are in melt down. We are like the child at the end of the shopping trip who crumples in tears at the register…
I have returned to reading the prayers of the Puritans recorded in The Valley of Vision* edited by Arthur Bennett; published by The Banner of Truth Trust 1975 The following is from page 30 in a prayer called Christ the Word “In a world of created changeable things, Christ and his Word alone remain unshaken….
Do you know the book? If You Give a Mouse a Cookie… I hope you do. It is so fun. The story follows the consequences that arise when giving a cookie to a mouse. It leads to one thing after another. The pictures are adorable, even for a non-lover of rodents like me… But sometimes…