Category: Letter to the Lord
Letters to the Lord: Three Days
I asked Kim Platt, my dear friend, colleague with One Collective, and fellow Pastor to our Workers, to be my guest today. I know her words will be an encouragement to your soul. 3 Days The 10th of August marks 3 years since my breast surgery. I’m still ‘coming to terms’ with it. I’ve been thinking a lot about having body parts removed—ectomy: hysterectomy, … Read More Letters to the Lord: Three Days
Letters to the Lord: Shock Treatment
I penned this little essay years ago, but I find it oh, so true today, about my pool and my heart. It seemed like a good idea at the time. It really did. A pool. Oh, not the real, down in the ground, big, expensive kind. Just a little above-the-ground pool. To help us cool off in the hot, hot summer. We’d moved to … Read More Letters to the Lord: Shock Treatment
Letters to the Lord: Persevering in the Little Things
Oh, Lord, it’s so often the little things that trip me up. During the past month, I’ve been doing a Virtual Camino—a wonderful program that InterVarsity has set up for faculty and staff at universities during this strange and difficult summer of 2020. When I heard that this virtual experience was also open to others, I signed up since my new novel, The Promised … Read More Letters to the Lord: Persevering in the Little Things
Letters to the Lord: Remembering Sallie
Lord, my heart is heavy today as I grieve the death of a remarkable woman, Sallie. She was as unique as the spelling of her first name, a Southern belle with lots of grit and a wild and passionate love for life and Jesus. I met her when Paul was in seminary in South Carolina. We attended the same church, and I admired her … Read More Letters to the Lord: Remembering Sallie
Letters to the Lord: Time
I’m in Ecclesiastes now, Lord, and today, in Chapter 3, as I read those beloved verses about time, so familiar, I think what a strange time we are living in now. We say it often. “These are strange and confusing times.” And it’s true. But whatever they are, this is the time we have, this present moment. As I read through the familiar list … Read More Letters to the Lord: Time
Letters to the Lord: When We Write The Truth
Twenty years ago I penned a novel that I thought would get me in trouble. Instead it has brought me a tiny slice of fame. Here’s how it happened: I’d finished writing a trilogy about France and Algeria and knew my next novel needed to be about my hometown of Atlanta. I’d heard the adage, “Write what you know about.” Well, I’d pretty much … Read More Letters to the Lord: When We Write The Truth
Letters to the Lord: Listen
WARNING: This is a rant against myself and maybe against you. Read at your own discretion. I will not be held responsible for any feelings of conviction that ensue. Listen Lord, that one little word keeps coming up again and again: listen. I encountered it in Jeremiah today as for the umpteenth time, he obeys You and prophesies tragedy on Israel. You gave the … Read More Letters to the Lord: Listen
Letters to the Lord: You Know Better
“Don’t wear yourself out to get rich; because you know better, stop!” Proverbs 23: 4 Ugh, Lord. Just ugh. Your Word got me right in the gut. And I couldn’t ignore it because I’d stopped and prayed before I opened my Bible for my heart to be tender to what I read this morning in Proverbs, Jeremiah, and Ephesians. And as so often happens, … Read More Letters to the Lord: You Know Better
Letters to the Lord: The Problem with Paul
On Sunday, I listened with tears in my eyes as our young adult sons, on a Zoom call, spoke words of love and gratefulness and pride to their father. As I listened, it struck me that the problem I wrote about in the essay below-almost thirty years ago-has only increased. (Some of the photos were taken years after the essay was penned=). As a … Read More Letters to the Lord: The Problem with Paul
Letters to the Lord: A Virtual Tour of the Writing Chalet
Here’s the link for the Facebook Live Video of the virtual tour. Enjoy!
Letters to the Lord: The Writing Chalet
People will say she is really just a tool shed, Lord. But You and I know differently. She has been my place to run to, my safe space, my ‘she shed’ a decade before there was even such a term. She’s much more than just my office. So I named her because naming her means she is seen. She’s my Writing Chalet. When we … Read More Letters to the Lord: The Writing Chalet
Letters to the Lord: Going Out of Our Way
Reflections from a visit to our missions’ old headquarters in Fall of 2008 I walk into the bare apartment and it all comes back to me, rushes at me like a gust of wind in my face. I spiral back 26 years and am that girl again, the terrified and excited coed, the child of privilege walking into the missions house and wondering, “What … Read More Letters to the Lord: Going Out of Our Way
Elizabeth Musser 