A Quiet Simple Life
Sallie Schaaf Borrink
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Welcome to Fireside Chat Number 5. In this episode, I’m sharing Scripture, a devotional, a Christmas poem, and some favorite quotes about waiting. In my Fireside Chats I focus on offering encouragement and refreshment during these difficult times. I hope you are blessed by this. Photo credit
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A little update from our family and some thoughts from my life right now. (The photo is Millie, our daily deer, resting under our neighbor’s burning bush tree this week. Caroline took the picture.) This chat is in the playlist below under “When the Way Is Hard to See.”
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How are you doing? I mean that sincerely. How are you holding up these days? I listened to a series of three videos this morning in which the YouTuber read out details submitted by followers from around they country (and world). They outlined many of the shortages and challenges we are facing in virtually every …
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Satan’s Tools by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman “Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and, let us run with patience the race that is set before us” (Heb. 12:1). There are weights which are not sins in themselves, but which become distractions and stumbling blocks in our …
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“Ye shall not go out with haste” (Isaiah 52:12). I do not believe that we have begun to understand the marvelous power there is in stillness. We are in such a hurry–we must be doing–so that we are in danger of not giving God a chance to work. You may depend upon it, God never …
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“My expectation is from him” (Ps. 62:5). Our too general neglect of looking for answers to what we ask, shows how little we are in earnest in our petitions. A husbandman is not content without the harvest; a marksman will observe whether the ball hits the target; a physician watches the effect of the medicine …
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“Lo, I am with you all the appointed days.” Matt. 28:20, Variorum Version Do not look forward to the changes and chances of this life in fear. Rather look at them with full hope that, as they arise, God, whose you are, will deliver you out of them. He has kept you hitherto; do you …
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“For the Vision is yet for an appointed time; though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry” (Hab. 2:3). In the charming little booklet, Expectation Corner, Adam Slowman was led into the Lord’s treasure houses, and among many other wonders there revealed to him was the “Delayed Blessings …
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“And Isaac went out to meditate in the fields at eventide” (Gen. 24:63). We should be better Christians if we were more alone; we should do more if we attempted less, and spent more time in retirement, and quiet waiting upon God. The world is too much with us; we are afflicted with the idea …
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“In waiting, I waited, for the Lord” (Ps. 40:1, margin). Waiting is much more difficult than walking. Waiting requires patience, and patience is a rare virtue. It is fine to know that God builds hedges around His people–when the hedge is looked at from the viewpoint of protection. But when the hedge is kept around …
