Rhythm of Life

Sheltered by His Presence
“. . . how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wing, and you were not willing.” Matthew 23:37 When I was a child, the small library in my church was located just off the main entrance hall, and it was a portal to a wonderful world. Tall shelves stood stacked in a tiny room not much bigger than today’s walk-in closets. Every selection had been catalogued and then lovingly covered with brown library paper. A church library is a blessing of exploration, and for avid readers the books were both friends and treasures. One well-thumbed book recounted a number of little anecdotes, word pictures telling of God’s sovereign care. In a particularly memorable story, the writer told of a prairie hen who had not survived the ravages of a grass fire, but who had somehow covered her ... continue reading