10Jan heart talk

I came up with a great idea for the New Year! It’s something you and I can do together even though we are miles apart. It will connect us each day. It will bring us hope, encouragement, and comfort as the days of the New Year unfold. It will deepen our relationship with God and draw us closer to Him. Pique your interest yet?

As I read from two daily devotionals on the first day of January, my heart felt refreshed and renewed through the soothing, calming words, and the reassurance of scripture. My thoughts turned to all of you, as I knew how much you probably needed the same words and the same scripture to give you hope and encouragement each day too. I so wanted to somehow connect with you at that moment with the idea of reading a devotional together each day! So I ask you now, not to make another New Year’s resolution, but to join me every day in 2010 reading God’s word or going through a daily devotional. If you need some suggestions, the two I am reading each day are: Jesus Calling (Sarah Young), and the timeless classic, Streams in the Desert (Mrs. Charles E. Cowman). Another classic devotional book I love is My Utmost for His Highest (Oswald Chambers). For a year-long devotional targeted specifically to your move, may I suggest the devotional I wrote, My Journey; A Journal for Letting Go, Starting Over, and Moving Ahead with My Life After a Move. Perhaps you have a favorite that you would like to suggest too. Email me your favorite and I’ll pass it on to our moving friends.

In January last year, Bill and I started reading through the Bible again, this time together. We would put a bookmark where each of us had read for the day. His bookmark was always ahead of mine. Sometimes I would have to catch up with each day at the end of the week. He loved to share with me the insight he gained from what he read. Little did we know what our year would hold with Bill’s cancer diagnosis. I am grateful we shared God’s word together daily until he went home to be with Jesus. This year, I am going to finish what we started together as I complete the book Meet the Bible; A Panorama of God’s Word in 365 Daily Readings and Reflections, by Philip Yancey & Brenda Quinn. It will take me through the Bible in one year. I know that will anchor me for the year ahead and would please Bill very much.

Don’t be a stranger; you matter in my life. Send me your prayer requests and stay in touch this year. I’m just a phone call or an email away.

From My Heart to Yours,

P.S. Don’t forget about our Just Moved! Facebook connection too!