Friday's Letters

Dear Chad, Each time we part the days until we meet seem longer and longer. 2 weeks ago I came home to see you, and today I am coming again. I am so ready for this precious time with you.

Dear Friend, thank you for being a listening ear and an open book. Thank you for laughter, thank you for advice, thank you for contemplating the beauty of our savior with me.

Dear Fear, I can't be with you anymore. There's someone else. He holds me in his hands and gives me joy. He promises the assurance of my salvation. With him there is no more place for you. Adieu.

Dear Parents, Thank you for always letting me know that I am loved, beautiful, intelligent, and full of potential. Thank you for your support and excitement for the things happening in my life.

Dear Half Marathon, get excited, i'm coming back better than ever!

Dear Jesus, Thank you for blessing me with beautiful relationships. Thank you for encouraging me and teaching me daily. Thank you for your strength in my weakness, for your joy in my sadness, for your consistency in my wavering.

All my love,

P.S. Here is a beautiful quote to encourage you today as it did me.

"Do not think you are getting no good from the Bible, merely because you do not see that good day by day. The greatest effects are by no means those which make the most noise, and are most easily observed. The greatest effects are often silent, quiet, and hard to detect at the time they are being produced.

Think of the influence of the moon upon the earth, and of the air upon the human lungs. Remember how silently the dew falls, and how imperceptibly the grass grows. There may be far more doing than you think in your soul by your Bible-reading."

J.C. Ryle, Practical Religion, 136