Whole Heart Devotion

"O Lord, you have searched me and you know me.  You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.  You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways."  Psalm 139:1-3 Well, I finally did it.  I finally became a full fledged preacher's wife!  Yes, I've technically been one for thirteen years, but it wasn't completely official until last Sunday. It was a very normal Sunday morning.  Preacher-hubby was out the door bright and early to be at church for our early service.  I was at home in a somewhat state of shock because the devil hadn't reared his nasty head in our house that morning!  The kids were interacting peacefully with each other.  Breakfast was eaten, Sunday lunch was prepped and ready to be eaten when we got home, and everyone had gotten what we call "out the door ready" in a very timely fashion.  ( Don't even think about coveting our Sunday morning routine because...

"Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life."  Revelation 21:27 I had the privilege of visiting what is bound to be one of the oldest and most elaborate public libraries in our country.  It comes in second in size only to the United States Library of Congress.  I've never in my life described a library as being beautiful, but the New York Public Library in Manhattan is just that.  Such beauty and grandness comes with great expense.  The vast amount of money required to build such an establishment is unfathomable to my little mind.  The millions and millions of dollars that have been spent over the last hundred years to engineer, create, stock, and continually renovate this library could probably completely end poverty as we know it across the majority of the world. As I walked down the grand staircas...