"My heart is overflowing with a good theme; I recite my composition concerning the King; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer."
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. James 1:23-24 So, I’m a girl. I have two mirrors in my bedroom—a full-length one [...]
“Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.” ~ C. S. Lewis in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe So far, 2012 has been a very hard, very painful year. I’ll leave it at that. A few days ago, I was feeling broken down, [...]
So… you can laugh at me if you’d like to. You can tell me I’m overestimating my own ability to use the English language. You can tell me the statists one how many people successfully make a living off of a certain career. It won’t change a thing. The truth is, I’m in love with [...]
So… it’s August twenty-second. The summer is over and next semester is staring me in the face. And, despite my firm resolution when school ended for the summer, I’ve not written much at all. This has been a crazy summer, and writing about everything that has happened and everything I have learned would probably take [...]
August 22, 2010
Stephanie Joy
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I sit alone, the cold darkness of night pressing in around me. My family and my friends have all been asleep for hours and I find myself completely alone again. As I sit, mentally exhausted and surrounded by the silence, my mind begins to wander. Images of everything I have ever hoped to do in [...]
Okay, I’m going to stop apologizing for sporadic posting. That just seems to be life right now. Anyhow, I just wanted to write a little bit about Psalm 18, which I was studying recently and really struck me… and since I’m actually pretty much caught up on homework, I thought I’d try to get a [...]
Graduating is one of those milestones in life that makes you start thinking. Over the past few months, I’ve been doing a lot of that. A lot of looking forward, a lot of looking back, a lot of trying to figure out what made me who I am. Tonight I went for a long walk [...]
July 26, 2009
Stephanie Joy
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My mind is so full ideas… half formed thoughts… I have four or five half written posts waiting to be finished… yet whenever I sit down to write, my mind wanders. I long to write… to put my thoughts on paper and perhaps finally see some sense or order. Yet I have failed at that [...]
After a long wait, they had finally arrived. Relief flooded Nehemiah’s body when the messenger told him of their coming. His brother was safe. Silently thanking the Lord, the grown man rushed with the excitement of a child to embrace his brother and hear news of their brethren in Jerusalem. Although their initial meeting was [...]
Her name was Anna.* The first time I saw her was at church a few weeks ago. As usual, I’d been in the back with the little ones all morning. When I came out for worship practice, there she was, standing next to the worship leader, getting ready to sing with us. The whole thing [...]
