November 1
Okay. So you need some backstory.
I've been printing non-stop for a couple days now. Like, two printers going, plus the cutting machine, plus the folding machine. I'm going deaf from all the clacking and clattering. I don't even technically have time to be writing this. But that's not important.
What is important is that for one of the print jobs, I have to be physically present to keep feeding paper into the machine. This means standing (or sitting) in a small room with a bunch of machines and no other source of entertainment. This has caused me to go slightly nuts.
Except... Directly adjacent to the printing room is the book room where we store the books we are selling. As I didn't bring any other entertainment with me, I have taken to reading from these books while I wait to feed more paper.
Which brings us to today.
Today's selection came from Streams in the Desert, which, if you didn't know (but you really should), was written by Lettie Cowman, co-founder of The Oriental Missionary Society, now known as One Mission Society. Yeah, that's right.
Anyway.
It's a 366-day devotional (I don't get it, either), so rather than start at the beginning, I decided to read the entry for November 1. This turned out to be an excellent selection.
An hour of waiting!
Yet there seems such need
To reach that spot sublime!
I long to reach them--but I long far more
To trust His time!
"Sit still, My children"--
Yet the heathen die,
They perish while I stay!
I long to reach them--but I long far more
To trust His way!
It's good to get,
It's good indeed to give!
Yet it is better still--
O'er breadth, through length, down depth, up height,
To trust His will.
F.M.N.
Yeah, 'cause this isn't what I've been thinking and praying about for months now.
I've been printing non-stop for a couple days now. Like, two printers going, plus the cutting machine, plus the folding machine. I'm going deaf from all the clacking and clattering. I don't even technically have time to be writing this. But that's not important.
What is important is that for one of the print jobs, I have to be physically present to keep feeding paper into the machine. This means standing (or sitting) in a small room with a bunch of machines and no other source of entertainment. This has caused me to go slightly nuts.
Except... Directly adjacent to the printing room is the book room where we store the books we are selling. As I didn't bring any other entertainment with me, I have taken to reading from these books while I wait to feed more paper.
Which brings us to today.
Today's selection came from Streams in the Desert, which, if you didn't know (but you really should), was written by Lettie Cowman, co-founder of The Oriental Missionary Society, now known as One Mission Society. Yeah, that's right.
Anyway.
It's a 366-day devotional (I don't get it, either), so rather than start at the beginning, I decided to read the entry for November 1. This turned out to be an excellent selection.
An hour of waiting!
Yet there seems such need
To reach that spot sublime!
I long to reach them--but I long far more
To trust His time!
"Sit still, My children"--
Yet the heathen die,
They perish while I stay!
I long to reach them--but I long far more
To trust His way!
It's good to get,
It's good indeed to give!
Yet it is better still--
O'er breadth, through length, down depth, up height,
To trust His will.
F.M.N.
Yeah, 'cause this isn't what I've been thinking and praying about for months now.