Grumbling in the Desert

      I had in mind what I wanted to post about next in my mind even before I wrote my previous blog.  It's some painful truth that God has been showing me through my problems at home.  But this morning, I felt like there was a different blog post to be written, so here we are...      A week ago I went shopping in an actual bookstore for the first time in way too long.  My purpose for the trip was to find a new journal.  It's been a long painful and dry season between the Lord and I.  My prayer life, which has always been pitiful, was pretty much dead or non-existent. (Can it be both?)  And something that has always helped me really be focused in talking to the Lord (albeit often self-centeredly) is journal praying.  When I journal it isn't a "Dear Diary" event, it's "Dear Lord," and it's Him I am talking to.  I can't tell you how much I regret for not journaling at all through 2020.  On the one hand there is muc...

 caveat - intimation of caution, hint, warning, admonition      I could also just put a sign up at the top of the page, "Enter at your own risk," but here we go, I am going to start this new blog with a little background and the warning birthed out of it.      I used to blog a lot. In fact, if you click over on my profile you will find a shortened list of my many, many blogs, including the original, and the one where I published the most, "My Walk of Faith." I have more than 500 blogs posted there between April 2008 and September 2019, with a very shortened 2016 and 2019 and a total absence in '17 and '18. But for most of those years, I had a lot... a LOT, to say.  I can only hope some of it was of value... Even the "address" to the blog declares the warning, "dianalovestowrite...."      I'm a good writer. God has given me a gift for, as my mother used to say, "painting pictures with words." I'm big on word pictures, a...

In my different seasons of walking with the Lord, He has many times brought a song into my life that serves as both an anthem and an encouragement. This current season He has introduced me to this song by Tasha Layton. Every time I listen to this song, I feel like the Lord is speaking directly to me and ministering to my heart. Below it also are two translations of a corresponding verse that I am trying to currently meditate upon.  (If you have trouble playing the video, try clicking on the title of the post itself and then click directly on the video.)   "The Lord Your God is among you, a warrior who saves.  He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will be quiet in His love. He will delight in you with singing. " Zepheniah 3:17 CSB The Lord your God in your midst, The Mighty One, will save;  He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love,  He will rejoice over you with singing. ” Zepheniah 3:17 NKJV