Category: Letter to the Lord
Letters to the Lord: Quit While You’re Ahead
During the coronavirus pandemic, I’ve been deeply moved by so many random acts of kindness around the world, from a neighbor singing “Happy Birthday” to the 94-year-old who is home alone to John Krasinski throwing a prom for the class of 2020. So many different ways people are pitching in to help make this crazy time bearable. And each Friday night, Andrew Lloyd Weber … Read More Letters to the Lord: Quit While You’re Ahead
Letters to the Lord: What Can I Give You, Lord, for Christmas?
Today’s devotional was about Hope—the hope we have in You. And then I read about the real Saint Nicolas, who gave so freely to the poor. Please let the HOPE of the Gospel permeate every fiber of my soul today. And let me download it to that safe place in my soul which is safer than anywhere on the ‘Cloud’ or in cyberspace. Plant … Read More Letters to the Lord: What Can I Give You, Lord, for Christmas?
Letters to the Lord: Instability and Endurance
A few months ago, I was in the midst of the final edits of my new novel, When I Close My Eyes, which just released in November. On the morning in question, I read James 1: 1-8 for my devotions, and the words that jumped out at me as I read and meditated on these verses were: endurance and unstable. “…Consider it all joy, … Read More Letters to the Lord: Instability and Endurance
Letters to the Lord: Thanksgiving
My reflections from 2007 when I was back in the US for Thanksgiving for the first time in many years… Yesterday Kim, one of my oldest and dearest friends, dropped by my parents’ house and we sat in their den—the same den we had sat in almost 40 years earlier as little girls. I put on a CD as we reminisced and caught up … Read More Letters to the Lord: Thanksgiving
Letters to the Lord: During the Drought
Inspired as I walked through the woods around my former high school campus in November ~Atlanta was in the midst of a serious drought and so was a dear friend of mine~ During the Drought I think the leaves are brighter for the drought, Their canopy of color overhead— Luminous orange, feisty red, burnt yellow— Shuddering or applauding in the breeze. The creek … Read More Letters to the Lord: During the Drought
Letters to the Lord: The Silent Flight
Reflections from Fall, 2007, when I spent 7 weeks in the States. The flight attendant announced while we were waiting at the gate that the electrical system on the plane seemed to have malfunctioned and that there would be no music, no movies, nothing on the long flight over the ocean. She told us to get to know our seatmate and buy something to … Read More Letters to the Lord: The Silent Flight
Letters to the Lord: You Never Let Go of Me
I wrote this journal entry five years ago, but I needed the reminder today. Psalm 139: 7-12 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle … Read More Letters to the Lord: You Never Let Go of Me
Letter to the Lord: Shattering the Yoke
I wrote these reflections several years ago when I was recovering from burnout: Lectio Divina—Isaiah 9: 2-4 2 The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned. 3 You have enlarged the nation and increased their joy; they rejoice before you as people rejoice at the harvest, as warriors rejoice when dividing … Read More Letter to the Lord: Shattering the Yoke
Letter to the Lord: Do You Not Know
Lord, it happened again today. That quickening in my spirit as I came to Your Word. Today I get to read one of my favorite chapters in all of the Bible! Oh, I guess I could read it every day, if I chose. But today it’s the next chapter in my daily reading. Isaiah 40. At last. The first half of Isaiah can get … Read More Letter to the Lord: Do You Not Know
Letters to the Lord: The Hound of Heaven
I’ve heard the expression ‘the Hound of Heaven’ for many years but wasn’t sure where it originated. So today I went looking and found the poem by Francis Thompson and then read the first chapter of John Stott’s Why I Am, in which Stott explains: Francis Thompson was expressing what is true of every Christian; it has certainly been true in my life. If … Read More Letters to the Lord: The Hound of Heaven
Letters to the Lord: The Unreliable Narrator
I have recently read two novels in which one of the protagonists is unreliable. The unreliable narrator is a term coined in the 1960s to refer to a narrator in a novel who gives false information, either through insanity, naiveté (as with a child) or deliberate lying. Having just finished Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, I found myself enmeshed in their … Read More Letters to the Lord: The Unreliable Narrator
Letters to the Lord: A Sword and a Trowel
Lord, I love the book of Nehemiah. Every chapter is so rich with application to my life today. Chapter 3 reminded me of the beauty when the body of Christ all works together. And the destruction when we do not. It feels like so much of Christianity today in the US is about fighting each other instead of working shoulder to shoulder. And this … Read More Letters to the Lord: A Sword and a Trowel
Elizabeth Musser 