The only explanation I can give for this blog--what I post, and when--is that, basically, I (1) write when I feel like it and (2) write whatever is uppermost in my mind at the time.

As to whether anyone else ever actually reads what I write, well, now, that is an excellent question. (Okay I once in a blue moon learn someone actually has read something, because they inform me of the fact, that is true...)

Anyhow, the above explanation, or disclaimer, I felt was necessary as I once again dive back into A Favorite Bible Passage, namely, Romans 8. It's the place I find myself going again and again, particularly when feeling out of it or down in the dumps, which tends to be a large percentage of the time.

So today I was there again meditating on this verse, among others: "He who did not spare his own son, but gave him up for us all--how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?"

Now you need to know the context and the theology to fully get what that's saying, but I'll just say that today what it meant for me was that it's all taken care of. I belong to God through Christ: that I am sure about (though I wasn't always). So that means God's got it all under control and if there's anything I really need, he'll supply it, and he'll be giving me "all things pertaining to life and godliness." Fear, physical needs, financial needs--all covered.

The key is really believing those things are true, deeply in the soul, and today as I mulled and thought and meditated some more, it all got very real for me again, and peace of the more than passing kind again began to seep in.

So there you have it: what's uppermost in my mind this morning, a morning I actually felt like writing something here again...