Keira and Great Grandma

photo credit: little sister Liza

Words & Meditation

"Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in Thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer."

Psalm 19:14

3 Years Later

"As cool as the other side of the pillow." That was my first entry unto this blog. How time has passed (how my struggles with grammars still have not improved by much. hehhe). But here I am again, lying on my back on a couch, once again as a visitor at a friend/family's resident, on yet a similar semi-cool/semi-humid Michigan summer night, as the season is drawing to a close, typing away on my computer.

2009 seems like a long time ago, but at the same it still feels like yesterday. Back then I was just getting ready to start on my last year of clinical training.  And today in 2012, God has blessed me with a wonderful job which still allows me to pay the bills, while I study for my DAT this summer.

I've grown a slightly higher appreciation for this blog. I guess there's a reason why people archive stuff. Because things get forgotten.  Just like in psychology class when we needed to record our dream, to jot them down right away the moment we wake up the next morning, with notebook and pencil next to our bed. As such with this blog.   There were significant things remembered, significant things somewhat forgotten, and many things in between.

May I allow myself to set up another Ebenezer tonight, another 'rock of remembrance.' No not a graven image as an idol, but as it was in Mizpeh when Samuel "took a stone and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, "Up to this point the LORD has been our help" (I Sam 7:12). A remembrance for the continual blessings the LORD has given me up to this point, how He sustains me.  Three years later I can attest of how faithful He is to me up to this day and how underserving and unworthy I am.

I feel the need of quoting from Hosea tonight. May we continue our honest walk with Jesus, our Personal Savior-Redeemer-and-Friend, and strive to serve Him better day by day, not in ways of darkness but in light.

"And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.

 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD."

Hosea 2:19,20

My Help

I lift up my eyes to the hills.

From where does my help come?

My help comes from the LORD,

who made heaven and earth.

He will not let your foot be moved;

He who keeps you will not slumber.

Behold, He who keeps Israel

will neither slumber nor sleep.

The LORD is your keeper;

the LORD is your shade on your right hand.

The sun shall not strike you by day,

nor the moon by night.

The LORD will keep you from all evil;

he will keep your life.

The LORD will keep

your going out and your coming in

from this time forth and forevermore.

Psalm 121