Thoughts By Marilyn Ehle

2021-03-01

The Re-Knitting Hand of God

The Re-Knitting Hand of God - Allowing God to recreate us on a daily basis - have you tried it?

2021-02-24

A Healthy Heart

“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you.” Ezekiel 36:26 Father God, I am grateful for your strength and grace that enables me to live according to your plan as I accept you into my life and commit my ways to you.

2021-01-29

God Speaks in Our Despair

When the earth and all its people quake, it is I who hold the pillars firm.

2020-12-23

Quiet Joy

If we could feel the quiet joy that Mary felt that night, We'd celebrate Your coming in a new and different light. Breathe calm into our frantic rush, help us Your peace to know.

2020-10-27

Quit Time

Has your Quiet Time become a Quit Time? Becoming quiet is not easy. It takes practice and discipline to repeatedly bow before the Lord.

2020-10-09

Give Jesus Your Boat

Master, help us give up our boats which are really only symbols of our own accomplishment. Help us trust you with all that we have and are and then expectantly wait for all that you wish to do in and through us.

2020-09-15

What am I Doing?

"I do not seek my own will, but the will of him who sent me." John 5:30 Economic uncertainty sends us into the world of “what ifs.”

2020-08-24

God’s Question

God’s first recorded question is one that rings down through the ages: “Where are you?"

2020-05-02

The Covid Road

You can walk the Covid road knowing the peace that is absolutely beyond understanding. It’s God’s sure promise.

2020-04-08

Jesus the Nazarene

Have you experienced family situations such as are described above? What is your immediate reaction when friends or family do not appreciate your experiences? How might your reactions change if you remembered that Jesus, too, experienced such misunderstanding?

2020-03-26

Christians and the Corona Virus

We are called to live sacrificially so others can heal, prosper, and find peace with God.

2020-03-21

Beginning Again

As we grow toward spiritual maturity, as we are being transformed through the renewing of our minds and obedience to the whispers of the Holy Spirit, may we always have the fresh attitude of beginning. Again.

2020-03-14

Impossible Instructions

Lord. Please help me keep my eyes on you and my ears tuned to your “Be still.” Exodus 14:13 “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today.”

2020-02-25

Security Systems

God promises to never leave or forsake us, to be with us wherever we go, to light the path ahead of us and surround us with His love. We experience that security not by pushing buttons but, by trusting in Him.

2020-02-18

Winding Roads and Center Lines

What is your center line? What has kept you on course while following Jesus? My center line for staying the course? “I have loved you with an everlasting love…” (Jeremiah 31:3)

2020-02-04

Unthinkable Instructions

What sea faces you? Before God gives the command to move on, he asks us to be still. Stop long enough to hear God’s sure whisper, “I will fight for you.”

2020-01-29

Who Do People See

When I read that God is “compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love,” I can ask myself if those same characteristics are becoming more a reality in my life. Am I looking at difficult people with compassion?

2020-01-25

The Danger of Strength

Success and strength can become dangerous when uncoupled from reliance upon our Creator God, when we assume autonomy instead of recognition that all we are and all we accomplish are from the hand of a gracious God.

2020-01-08

Slow Down: Work in Progress

Often we are impatient with the speed with which God works. Christ followers are taught that spiritual growth is a lifetime affair.

2019-12-15

The Sacrifice of Praise

Why is praise called a “sacrifice”? I believe it is because true praise given in the less-than-ideal situations of life indicates that I sacrifice my right to grumble about people, circumstances and God; I willingly forsake action which ‘comes naturally,’ is ‘only human’ and which ‘everyone’ indulges in.

2019-12-03

Learning to Cast

Casting my anxiety on God will take practice. Instead of discouragement when we find ourselves worrying about the same thing we have given over to God, we simply do it again knowing that our wise and gracious Father understands that we are novices.

2019-08-18

Jewels from Junk

Too often we see ourselves only as ordinary junk. Perhaps we have not grown up with affirmation or, much worse, we have been abused and heard shouts that we are nothing but junk. We compare ourselves to those who possess more, who have attained more, who appear more beautiful or handsome. We s

2019-06-10

Christian Civility

Jesus calls Christians to words and actions that go far beyond civility, even civility. His call is life altering, indeed it is death to self.

2019-05-31

A Squawking World

“One of the deepest longings of the human soul is to be seen,” and the squawking magpies remind me to not only see the souls’ longings, but also hear them. I am called to be an imitator of God as I listen: “Before they call I will answer, while they are yet speaking I will hear” (Isaiah 65:24).

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