Lo siento!
I’m sorry for my total absence this week. I’m typing these words perched out on a balcony, the only place I can get my internet hot-spot to work. No, we’re not in the Ark, we’re actually in Mexico, on a family trip that was planned ages ago, long before we knew we’d be moving at the same time! As some of you know, our house was delayed in closing, so we moved in with my parents for a week or so, then flew out for this trip, and our house closed a couple days ago, while we were thousands of miles away! So, we’ll move in next week when we return, but the kids and I got really sick right before we left on the trip, so needless to say, between moving, traveling, sickness, and no limited internet connection, I had a few obstacles keeping me from coming here to say, Hola! Come estas?!
We are slowly recovering, and are very grateful for the sea-air and sunshine, which does work wonders. I do hope you are well; and I thank you for your kind encouraging feedback on the Ark story. I hope it’s encouraged you in your own faith-adventure. We’re all on one.
That’s all for now. I’m here to rest and savor time with my family, so I’m going to go do just that. (Those are the cousins above, holding hands in the ocean. Precious bugs!) I just wanted y’all to know I’m still alive, and leave you with these words that have been an encouragement for me lately. Above all the world’s beauty and splendor, above all experiences and encounters, above all perfect circumstances, the presence of the LORD is the only place that satisfies our souls.
Psalm 84
How lovely is your dwelling place,
O Lord of hosts!
2 My soul longs, yes, faints
for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and flesh sing for joy
to the living God.
3 Even the sparrow finds a home,
and the swallow a nest for herself,
where she may lay her young,
at your altars, O Lord of hosts,
my King and my God.
4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house,
ever singing your praise! Selah
5 Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
in whose heart are the highways to Zion.[b]
6 As they go through the Valley of Baca
they make it a place of springs;
the early rain also covers it with pools.
7 They go from strength to strength;
each one appears before God in Zion.
8 O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer;
give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah
9 Behold our shield, O God;
look on the face of your anointed!
10 For a day in your courts is better
than a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
the Lord bestows favor and honor.
No good thing does he withhold
from those who walk uprightly.
12 O Lord of hosts,
blessed is the one who trusts in you!
Thank you for reading.