Above Rubies Daily Encouragement Blogs
Comfort or conviction
Are the options today.
Will we stand, or be silent
When the choice comes our way?
Though culture is changing,
God's ways stay the same.
Will we yield to the pressure
Or the truth still proclaim?
This life is a vapor,
This world will not last.
Will we seek the eternal
Or the things that will pass?
We may suffer scoffing,
Persecution, or loss,
But to follow the Savior
Is to yield to the cross.
Help me love you, my Savior.
Keep me faithful to you,
Let me stand against falsehoods,
Unashamed of the truth.
Walking the old paths,
Embracing your Word,
Filled with your wisdom,
Not the voices I've heard.
I trust you to keep me,
I can't keep myself.
When I'm tempted to falter,
Let your strength be my help.
No matter the battle,
Keep me true to the end,
I want only to please you,
My Redeemer and friend.
2021, Val Halloran
www.valhalloran.com
My mother, the unknown missionary
With five noisy children in tow,
From dawn till dusk we kept her busy
As she taught us and watched us grow.
Those child-days were long and wearisome
With babies, toddlers, and more.
But training up children in the way they should go
Was a mandate to Mum, not a chore.
It wasn’t easy with many small children,
The days stretched out long one by one,
“Don’t grow weary in doing what’s good”
Was the Scripture that encouraged Mum.
To God she always taught us to look,
Him we were taught to love,
As Friend and Savior, Lord of all,
Our minds were on things above.
Now we are grown and have all left home,
Waving goodbye one by one,
But we’ll always be impacted by the lessons taught
By the unknown missionary, our Mum.
~ Hannah Bronn