Category: Letter to the Lord
Letters to the Lord: The Day After Easter
It’s the Day after Easter, and I’m so thankful for this day, Lord. And yesterday. Oh, yes. Yesterday. Yesterday we awoke early to attend the sunrise service at Point Park. We joined with over 300 other believers, masked and bundled in the near freezing chill, to worship our Risen Savior as the sun rose in bright splendor to our right, off the side of … Read More Letters to the Lord: The Day After Easter
Letters to the Lord: Hope For Times Like These
Easter 2021 Multi-Author Giveaway – Hope For Times Like These This time last year we were entering a time of real uncertainty and this year that uncertainty continues. These are good times to remind ourselves to keep our eyes fixed on Jesus. 14 authors have joined together to offer stories to help us do this. I’ll be giving away copies of The Swan House … Read More Letters to the Lord: Hope For Times Like These
Letters to the Lord: Love Letters from the Lord
Once again, I’m delighted to welcome Margaret Kirby as my guest blogger this week. May you be blessed by her words as I have been. Have you ever felt like you’re living in a book? I mean those moments when some small detail comes to your attention and you take a step back to look at it and you realize it’s somehow a symbol … Read More Letters to the Lord: Love Letters from the Lord
Letters to the Lord: Never Let Me Go
I find it almost impossible to believe that exactly one year ago, Paul and I were heading out on a Trans-Atlantic cruise, to celebrate my 60th birthday and our 35th anniversary. Little did we know all that awaited us in 2020 as Covid-19 struck the world. For today, I want to look back on a journal entry I wrote while I was on that … Read More Letters to the Lord: Never Let Me Go
Letters to the Lord: Mozart, Billy Joel, and Jesus
Ten years ago this month, Paul and I visited Vienna and got Mozart and a whole lot more. Here’s the story: I wanted Mozart in Vienna. For the entire week of visiting with missionaries who do refugee work on the outskirts of Vienna, I had thought of Billy Joel whose song ‘Vienna’ had captured my heart 30 years earlier when I was a … Read More Letters to the Lord: Mozart, Billy Joel, and Jesus
Letters to the Lord: Rats on the Beach
Years ago, I got a little surprise at the end of our 20th anniversary celebration in North Africa. And the lesson I learned is still applicable today as life continues to be unpredictable… It had been the perfect vacation, really. The perfect get-away for Paul and me, the perfect way to celebrate twenty years of marriage. A trip to Tunisia. How exotic, we thought. … Read More Letters to the Lord: Rats on the Beach
Letters to the Lord: On Winning
It’s Super Bowl time. How do you feel about WINNING? Here are a few of my thoughts from about thirty years ago which still ring oh-so-true to my soul today. Lord, sometimes I wish I could just win once in a while. Nothing big. Just the little daily battles that wear me down ’til I tire of fighting. Like the kids. … Read More Letters to the Lord: On Winning
Letters to the Lord: The Crystal Goblet and the Sippy Cup
Years before I ever penned a novel, I wrote short essays about every day life. I usually tied in a spiritual analogy, which was simply my way as a harried mom and missionary of making sense of my life. Here’s one of my favorites from my early years of being a ‘Mommy’. I have two favorite drinking containers in my house. One is … Read More Letters to the Lord: The Crystal Goblet and the Sippy Cup
Letters to the Lord: See What I See
Today, I’ve asked my amazing mother-in-law, Doris Ann Musser, to share a few of her thoughts that were inspired from what she observed in a church service a few years ago. I think you will appreciate her thoughts. Sitting quietly on the back row of church today, I was following the order of service with a blank brain. Pastor announced a hymn. The couple … Read More Letters to the Lord: See What I See
Letters to the Lord: Press On
“Brothers and sisters, I do not regard myself as having taken hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3: 13-14 Everyone has waited with bated breath for 2021 to arrive. But now … Read More Letters to the Lord: Press On
Letters to the Lord: The Messiah’s Invitation
For the past several years I have been greatly blessed by The Advent Project, part of Biola University’s Center for Christianity and the Arts. The following is a devotional from December 15, 2020 which greatly encouraged me, and I pray it will be sweet for your soul, too. I have scattered photos above and throughout the post of my beloved French santons, carrying their … Read More Letters to the Lord: The Messiah’s Invitation
Letters to the Lord: How Will Christmas Come?
The tree is decorated, looking perfectly gorgeous with our imperfect and oh-so-special ornaments. The needlepoint stockings, those blessedly brought back by the angel of lost things, adorn the hearth, and this year I have added a green garland, little white lights, candles, and shiny balls there too. This feels festive and sweet and happy. Mamaw’s straw angels sit beside the fireplace on one side, … Read More Letters to the Lord: How Will Christmas Come?
Elizabeth Musser 