Lavender and Laughter

Life is too short to drink tea out of a plastic cup....I created this blog to pour the lavender and laughter of my life into yours.

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I am complicated and I am a Marshwiggle (like Puddleglum from Lewis' The Silver Chair). Personality tests don't work on me. I yearn to see Jesus face to face, and to see the love in His eyes. I am learning to walk on water and to be a new person in Christ. I am in love with my husband and baby, and I love the smell of coffee and lavender mixed together.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

I couldn't resist...




Soulful Longing



I have a deep soul-longing to be God's beloved. The sweetness of this is that, although my faith can't fathom it very well, God has already embraced me as His. The creeping, dark doubts that tell me how hugely I fail, cannot and will not have victory over His purpose for my life. Whether I'm crushed to produce a sweet aroma, or raised up to shine like a city on a hill, I will seek Him with my soul. I will relentlessly look for Him to be the meaning of my life. And I know He will make me what I am not.
There is a great sadness for some of my family, because they are waiting to embrace Jesus once He makes sense to them. It breaks my heart, because it will never make sense until they embrace Him. Faith takes the step before it has the answer. And only faith will satisfy their souls.
May God increase and satisfy my yearning for Him to be close to me. And-as Ruth Graham said-may I be all that is loveliness and laughter.

Friday, May 01, 2009

My Darling so Sober