I wake in the dark with a head full of pain. It is good to give thanks to the Lord. It doesn’t feel good, but I know it is good, and so we rise up, we meet at our K-mart table, we join hands to sing praises to your name, O Most High. We don’t actually sing, but maybe that’s what it sounds like to Him. Who am I to say.
The kids join us in the kitchen, I lay out the clothes, make the lunch sandwiches, calm the bickering at the breakfast table, drink the coffee–hot if you’re lucky. And I catch a glimpse of the morning sun through my laundry room window and the rest of those holy words come to mind - to declare your steadfast love in the morning and your faithfulness by night.
And I consider the significance of declaring His love in the morning and His faithfulness by night. Love in the morning, to remember through the gray and yellow flurries of the day, to holdfast in the midst of the homework whine, the dinner grind, the mail and the dishes and the living.
And then in the night when the house heaves a heavy sigh of another day done, the dishwasher hums from the kitchen, and The Man and I settle into our evening routine, the words rise up from my invisible insides — and your faithfulness by night — to receive the gifts to be found in the day that has just been lived for the first and last time, to notice the ways he has provided again, and to remember to say thank you.
This week, as we approach the celebration of the resurrected Christ, I want to take some time to embrace his love in the morning and his faithfulness by night as I post a morning and an evening photo with just a few words to stand alongside. Join me if you like on your own Love & Faithfulness journey.
“It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to your name, O Most High; to declare your steadfast love in the morning and your faithfulness by night.”
Psalm 92:1-2
beautiful words and images
(as always!)
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It IS good to give thanks! Oh His love and faithfulness, it is good. I don’t stop often enough to embrace His goodness.
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Beautiful idea! What a way to celebrate this week before Easter. LOVE.
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Thank you for reminding me to thank Him just for being who He is…faithful and loving. Thank also for sharing the Scripture at the end of your post.
As always, I so admire and adore your photographs. It just blows my mind how talented you are!
As always I am stunned by the beauty of your heart and the words that flow from it. With Joy, Carey
I don’t think I’ve ever read that verse and taken that scripture to heart like that. It certainly deserves more consideration and meditation. Thank you.
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Hello Emily,
What beautiful words, for the beginning of Holy Week. What wonderful words to remember each day, in the midst of the madness that often is our lives, how good to just stop, and breathe, thanking him in the morning, singing his praises, and thanking him for his faithfulness each night, because he is faithful, and He gave us everything, which in my book is definitely worthy of thanks. I really enjoyed reading this today, thank you again. May God touch the hearts of you and yours this Holy Week. Nics
There is comfort in the everyday workings of a home. You so beautifully use that to present the comfort found in His love and faithfulness. I’m so ready for Resurrection Sunday. Thank you for encouraging me to use this week to focus on those attributes of our God.
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This gave me a deep, soul sigh. His love and His faithfulness are both so dear to me. I can’t wait to see your words and images this week on both.
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“..to receive the gifts that have been found in the day that has just been lived for the first and last time…” These words hit my soul hard. God’s been convicting me at times recently that I am sometimes getting “busy” when I need to be really present and focused on single moments. Your words today are definitely for me! Thank you.
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What a beautiful way to prepare our hearts. I will try to join you Thursday!
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This verse blesses me – I’ll carry it with me. Thanks!
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I love the coffee thing…I heat up one cup of coffee every morning atleast 15 times. Ain’t lyin’!
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Love this idea, Emily — I’ll be back this week…I always love your pictures (and your words, too!). And that psalm…I don’t think I’m familiar with it, but the love in the morning, faithfulness at night is really resonating with me this morning.
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I have been so busy with my “own life” that I have not really taken time to stop and think much about this week, Easter week, until we had an awesome visiting singer/speaker at church yesterday. And now the posts filling my reader this week, so awesome…
Bernice
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So beautiful. My heart flooded with warmth…
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This, I love.
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I love that Psalm… and the idea of declaring his love in the morning and his faithfulness at night as I reflect on the day (or days) gone by reminds me of breathing. Inhale as I declare His love… Exhale as I recall His faithfulness. I’m looking forward to reading along this week!
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I was so surprised to read the title of your post this morning. I have been pondering those same two words for the passed 3 days. Love and faithfulness. My grandfather passed away Friday. I love the 100th Psalm because of him. This verse has been swirling in my head since I heard the news and have been thinking about his faithful life serving the faithful one. “Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.” Prov. 3:3
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Shelley, I am sorry for the delay in writing this&dont even know if you will see it. Please accept my sympathy&empathy in your loss,grandparents are such precious links in family&who we come to be. I’m sure he’s proudly watching you celebrate him&taking comfort in His word while you grow&develop the next link with your family&friends. All good wishes to you&yours, and condolences in your missing him this holyday…-s-
Coincidently, I’ve been reading Ann Voskamp’s 1,000 gifts and so your post is perfectly timed today. The pictures are lovely as usual. Thank you!
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Beautiful.
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i love the idea. i’m not much of a photographer, but i can meditate on him as i check on my trillium (favorite NC wildflower that will bloom tomorrow!) each morning and evening….
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I love this. Your words and photographs are beautiful and stunning.
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I love how you weave life through your message. I so get the homework whining. I so get the morning preparation. I so love how God is woven through that!
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“the words rise up from my invisible insides…to receive the gifts to be found in the day that has just been lived for the first and last time, to notice the ways he has provided again, and to remember to say thank you.”-Absolutely beautiful . Being thankful for a day that was and will never be, in that exact way, ever again. What a starkly real, wonderful, and humbling thought.
Love the scripture and the photos are beautiful!
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Love it.
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This is exactly what I needed to hear tonight, thank you for your beautiful, truth-filled words. Looking forward to more.
This is a brilliant and beautiful idea. It’s OK if I post my own on my blog? I will certainly lead people back to the original.
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That’s Beautiful! Ever since this summer, first week of April when God gave me back my heart, clean, and said, “Now go love.” I’ve been asking him for his love every morning, to go love with! But I like the recounting of his faithfulness every night. He has been so faithful today. So wonderfully in charge of my crazy day that it has been a delight to see him work out all things and see me have much less fear (not absence of fear yet, but he is at work!) that things will go right! Oh, praise him, he has been faithful today!
We don’t know each other, but really I just think you are AMAZING…pretty much the bomb….and I thought you should know! Thanks for being SO real, SO honest, SO transparent….your life/story/testimony inspired me!
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*inspires
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Thank you for the very inspiring story you have shared to us specially the verse, it reminds me that God is always with me and life is good. And you are absolutely right; we should always thank and praised God in everyday of our life starting from the moment we wake up and before we sleep at night. I am hoping to hear more inspiring stories from you.
Beautiful pictures, and love the story. “God is a faithful God.”
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I want to share this Bible Verse
Deuteronomy 4:31
For the LORD your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your forefathers, which he confirmed to them by oath.
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