August 22, 2025 – Calm
I’m at the Birmingham airport at gate B2 sitting at one of the raised desks that all the working people sit at getting important things done (or so I always assume). I too have something important to accomplish before I fly off to DC this morning. I love this feeling! I’m contributing in a different way, though, than I have for most of my adult life. Thank You for this season of adventure and creativity, Lord.
My mother-in-law, Barbara, called me yesterday to wish me safe travels and to offer her prayers for all that is involved with Carrie’s surgery next week. She also told me that she’d been watching the weather on Wednesday and knew that I’d be in the storms; so she was praying for me. She and God were covering me when I was so tense that I was slow in thinking to pray (yet, again).
Max – “You can pick what you ponder.”
Prevail 234 – Mark 4:39 – “When Jesus woke up, he rebuked the wind and said to the waves, ‘Silence! Be Still! Suddenly the wind stopped and there was great calm.” Larson tells about the lesson the disciples needed to learn because, “Given the ministry opportunities that awaited the disciples on the other side of the lake, they needed to learn how to access peace and rest when chaos swirled around them.” [especially if they didn’t have a weather-watching mother-in-law praying for them!] Larson writes, “God is always preparing you for the next phase of the journey.” [and He prepared me ahead of that journey Wed to be in a safe car!]
Streams – Acts 27:44 – “And the rest, some on boards, some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass that they escaped all safe to land.” [Another reference to travel – more of God’s theme-weaving] Cowman writes, “Paul, more than anyone else, was an example of how much a child of God can suffer without being crushed or broken in spirit….God’s promises and God’s providences do not lift us out of the plane of common sense and commonplace trial, but it is through these very things that faith is perfected, and that God loves to interweave the golden threads of His love along the warp and woof of our every day experience.” I’ve never heard of “woof” being used in reference to anything but dogs. AI Google says woof “refers to the cross threads of a fabric in the context of weaving, contrasted with the warp (lengthwise threads). Even in weaving a theme through my reading and our time together He uses the idea of weaving and continues teaching me new things! I love it!
(Note: Speaking of dogs, I will be seeing my granddog, Mote, soon – there is a stuffed Auburn Tiger in my bag for him that I bought in one of the airport stores, even though all of the stores were stocked mostly with U of Alabama stuff! Time to post and board. As Don always says, “Blue Skies!” Did you notice the use of “plane” in Streams? My Father even put that reference in, letting me know He knows where I am and where I’m going…and how!)
