I knew the hymn stanza I ended my last entry with from The Sacred Harp.  Today I looked up the rest of the hymn.  Besides teaching me the word "illude," it's a really beautiful hymn, and speaks exactly to the Haggai passage and my experience over the past week.  Here it is:

Away my unbelieving fear;
Fear shall in me no more take place,
My Savior ( Read more... )

And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD: Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.  I smote you with blasting and with ( Read more... )

The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.

Whenever I walk by a statue of Mary (and I go to a Roman Catholic school and live in a pretty Catholic neighborhood so there are quite a few), the prayer I pray (not to or ( Read more... )