Author: Jennifer C. Williams
It’s fascinating that this was never part of the sermon or Sunday School lesson. At least as far as I can remember. I guess I pictured the scenario playing out differently. I knew God gave permission to Satan to attack Job but I didn’t realize God actually brought Job into the limelight. Timing is everything […]
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It’s time. Something new is coming to life slowly as the ice melts. Nothing can stay the same. Life moves. Souls move about and a chronicler writes of God’s eyes roaming to and fro. Even God does not seem still. Yet, I know He is my peace when I cannot rest. He keeps me still. […]
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One winter I napped with a newborn daughter beside me, or sometimes she laid on my chest, but either way as the morning hours turned to afternoon we dozed, ate, and experienced the newness of life. I prayed, I promised impossible things. I planned her days would be perfect, all of them. The perfect balance […]
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Lately I’ve been reading old saints. This month it has been The Interior Castle by St. Teresa of Avila. I’ve been calling it a reading hour, although it doesn’t always last an hour. Sometimes it’s only a few pages and ten minutes but it is always on the topic of spiritual development. I found the […]
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When it feels like there are a hundred things that press down, what if I resolutely uninvited them. Excluded them as I would any other enemy of my soul. The hundred things that need to be done, humble me as I conclude that maybe only one or two of these things has actually been asked […]
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This morning I read this:…if you are going on with God, the only thing that is clear to you and the only thing God intends to be clear, is the way He deals with our own soul. -Oswald Chambers After reading I looked out my window and saw the deep fog. I grabbed my new […]
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The last couple of years I’ve left behind the ritual of making New Year resolutions for something more vague yet focused which is a weird combination. Just a word or two, maybe a short sentence. I don’t really set all the particulars. It’s just a word to keep in mind as I make decisions in […]
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Then Moses said, “I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn.” Exodus 3:3 Once Moses stepped aside, THEN God spoke. To walk slow enough, to not ignore and simply walk past things that catch our attention. Can I be childlike and let God distract me? maybe never […]
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This love of God, this invitation to know Him as a Friend as a Father as a Creator, it seems unreal yet it is so real. As my soul yields more and more to the Spirit that abides so close I wonder at this overcoming joy, this rapture as St. Teresa of Avila called it. […]
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We are the aroma of life. Maybe because it is almost Autumn I imagine Christ smelling of falling leaves, drying grass, woods and earth, remnants of frankincense. Do I diffuse the fragrance of Him? His knowledge? Or, do I approach others and diffuse anxiety? The scent of sweat and my own blood, not yet dead […]
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