Do you ever get the feeling that someone is watching you? Yesterday, that was not only a feeling, it was a fact. Mr. Gray, atop the mailbox posts, had his feline eyes directed right at my window. I like to think he was guarding the house against lions and tigers, and all other impossible threats. Actually, he had just had a bowl of crunchy food and probably was feeling comfortably lazy. I don’t know Mr. Gray’s true identity. He’s rather a man about town, footloose and fancy free, but he has a charming personality, is a good conversationalist, and drops in for breakfast now and then. I suppose he’s a man of mystery.
The last word has been written in Moonlight Can Be Murder. Dawn is reading it and will give me her opinion on whether something doesn’t fit. She’ll tell me if she has a question or finds a contradiction. After many re-reads, edits, other eyes looking at it, it will be presented to a publisher. And now, on to the next cozy!
Yesterday, I found a verse which fits me: “I rise before the dawning of the morning” (Psalm 119:147). I like getting up early and watching the day begin. This morning, not only the day, but a brand new month begins. I pray that it is a good month, that the marine held prisoner for so long in Mexico will get to come home, that Christians who are being slaughtered in the Mid-East will be protected, that the threats to this Nation will be met successfully, that peace will reign in hearts and lives. Not only peace, but peace with freedom.
In Old Testament days, cities were built within the boundaries of thick, tall walls and night watchmen guarded the city. For it’s at night, under cover of darkness when the enemy moves in. What a relief it must have been to King David when morning dawned and the night was over. The alert watchmen had not sounded a warning, so all was well.
In Psalm 75:1, Asaph put his feeling of gratitude to God into beautiful words: “Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks; for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare.”
“The day is Yours, the night also is Yours, You have prepared the light and the sun. You have set all the borders of the earth; You have made summer and winter” (Psalm 74:16-17).
“The Lord bless thee, and keep thee;
The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee;
The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace” (Numbers 6:24-27).
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