Cousins.....Family

Tiffany and Sarah---are getting acquainted. They are second cousins and this is their first meeting. I think they're going to be fast friends. Why do I think that? They are already chattering like they've known each other all their lives. Excellent students--each of them. They also love their daddies. They like to hunt with them and each have several trophies.

I love watching my extended family learn about each other...and they will know each other in eternity...for they're also in God's fovever family. Cousins....a good thing.

Trust

I woke up this morning, depressed. Sad. All the work we did for the election for "our side" seemed for naught. We walked. We planned. We gave. We prayed. Yet "our side" wasn't elected--on nearly all counts.

What do I read this morning in the Psalms but in the 42nd and its twin, 43:

Why are you in despair, O my soul?

And why have you become disturbed within me? 

Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him

For the help of His presence.

Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him.

The help of my countenance and my God.

...plead my case against an ungodly nation;

O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man!...

And upon the lyre I shall praise You. O God, my God.

Why are you in despair, O my soul?

And why are you disturbed within me?

Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him.

The help of my countenance and my God.

Another reminded, yet again. My hope is in God, maker of heaven and earth. It is in He I put my trust. And that is enough.