I’m improving, though, and can stand to read and type for just a few minutes before my eyes start going again and the nausea hits. Like now.

For every look at self take ten looks at Christ! Live near to Jesus—and all things will appear little to you in comparison with eternal realities.

How many millions of dazzling pearls and gems are at this moment hidden in the deep recesses of the ocean caves. Likewise, unfathomable oceans of grace are in Christ for you. Dive and dive again—you will never come to the bottom of these depths!

When you gaze upon the sun—it makes everything else dark; when you taste honey—it makes everything else tasteless. Likewise, when your soul feeds on Jesus—it takes away the sweetness of all earthly things; praise, pleasure, fleshly lusts, all lose their sweetness. Keep a continued gaze! Run, looking unto Jesus. So will the world be crucified to you—and you unto the world!  -Robert Murray M’Cheyne

Breathe, O breathe Thy loving Spirit,
Into every troubled breast!
Let us all in Thee inherit;
Let us find that second rest.
Take away our bent to sinning;
Alpha and Omega be;
End of faith, as its Beginning,
Set our hearts at liberty.

Come, Almighty to deliver,
Let us all Thy life receive;
Suddenly return and never,
Never more Thy temples leave.
Thee we would be always blessing,
Serve Thee as Thy hosts above,
Pray and praise Thee without ceasing,
Glory in Thy perfect love.

Finish, then, Thy new creation;
Pure and spotless let us be.
Let us see Thy great salvation
Perfectly restored in Thee;
Changed from glory into glory,
Till in heaven we take our place,
Till we cast our crowns before Thee,
Lost in wonder, love, and praise.

-Charles Wesley, 1747

that last night’s rollicking thunderstorm didn’t knock out our internet. It was only a tripped GFI switch.

that I’ve had some improvement in the vertigo that plagues me. I’m still having trouble reading and typing, which is the reason I’m not leaving very many comments these days. Not posting much, either, but then I haven’t been doing much of that, anyway. A lot gets written in my head that never makes it to the page. (Does that happen to you too?)

that I was able to make a pie for my husband’s Board meeting tonight. Crust yesterday, filling today.

for rain, and that my elevated garden bed is ready to go. Thanks, Harry. You are a great gift to me and I’m so thankful for you.

Even when it looks like God is being hard on His servants you can be assured that His provision is staggeringly and lavishly loving and generous and good and kind and that He will relentlessly and ruthlessly pursue you in His compassion in His grace and for your joy.”   -Ligon Duncan, in The Underestimated God: God’s ruthless, compassionate grace in the pursuit of his own glory and his ministers’ joy.

My need and Thy desires
Are all in Christ complete;
Thou hast the justice truth requires,
And I Thy mercy sweet.

Where’er Thy name is blest,
Where’er Thy people meet,
There I delight in Thee to rest,
And find Thy mercy sweet.

Light Thou my weary way,
Lead Thou my wandering feet,
That while I stay on earth I may
Still find Thy mercy sweet.

Thus shall the heavenly host
Hear all my songs repeat
To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
My joy, Thy mercy sweet.

-John S.B. Monsell, 1866

for online sermons. During the past week I’ve listened to the sermons from the recent Gospel Coalition conference. The sermons by Ligon Duncan and David Platt were like coals from the fire to my soul. Listen and weep.

that I’m feeling better today. Hate to sound like one of those old ladies who constantly talk about their health, but I’m so thankful to have the nausea and extreme tiredness lift, I just have to express thankfulness. The dizziness continues, I’m sorry to say.

for news from a missionary couple who serve the Lord in a distant land. My husband saw them as clients several years ago, and since then they have gone to minister to a people who had never heard the gospel of Christ. They learned the language, put it in written form for the first time, and now forty of those people have come to a saving faith in Christ! My husband wept as he read their email to me. Thanks be to God for his faithful work in the lives of that couple, that he took them to spread the gospel to an unreached people, and for his redeeming work in the lives of those people! So wonderful!

Refrain

Oh! precious is the flow
That makes me white as snow;
No other fount I know,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

For my pardon, this I see,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
For my cleansing this my plea,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

Refrain

Nothing can for sin atone,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
Naught of good that I have done,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

Refrain

This is all my hope and peace,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
This is all my righteousness,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

Refrain

Now by this I’ll overcome—
Nothing but the blood of Jesus,
Now by this I’ll reach my home—
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

Refrain

Glory! Glory! This I sing—
Nothing but the blood of Jesus,
All my praise for this I bring—
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

Oh! precious is the flow
That makes me white as snow;
No other fount I know,
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

-Robert Lowry, 1876

Go on, now. Don’t you want to find out why Dan Phillips says the Gospel is world-tilting? ‘Course you do.