Devotionals, quotes from parents or other loved writers, thoughts, experiences
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Working on a book, and not going to be speaking as much next fall and spring
Hi readers,
I am working on a book about my father's letters to my mother and their journals. I am excited and eager to work hard on it, learning now not to procrastinate, but as my oldest son suggested to me at Christmas this past year, that I try to do 45 minutes a day on it. Most days, if I'm not traveling to a speaking engagement, I am able to do this and it has been a joy. Please pray for me to continue on in this coming year, hoping to have at least 3/4 of it done by June, 2016. I will not be taking speaking engagements for fall of 2015 or spring of 2016 except for 2 I accepted in Mich. and Iowa in Sept. of this year. I will speak within 2 hrs of home, but not further, as that usually involves staying overnight.
Poem of my father
6/5/48
"O Lord, against this bosom-blast
of coiled and seething feelings,
Batt’ring passions, ebbing yearnings,
oozing ache of inner man,
Raise Thou the flinty walls of
stuff of which Thy Son was made-
Yea, build in me the buttressed
bastions of faith
That shall resist the under-suck-
ing flow of soulish tide,
And make me to endure this
late attack, I pray,
In Jesus’ name."