Mama Always ~ L.A. Brown, Author

  Every day I do devotionals...two in the morning, and one at night. For the last couple of years, because of the brain fog from fibro,  I assume,  I have a hard time concentrating very long. Reading is difficult because at some point I will not be able to completely comprehend what I just read, and have to go back to read it again, or I fall asleep. So the devotionals help me to stay in God's Word, even if it's just a little bit. In my reading today a passage popped up that I don't ever recall reading, but having read the Bible through at least a couple of times, I know I have. It was Malachi 3: 1-6a. M ALACHI 3 The Coming Messenger 1 “Behold,  Matt. 11:10; Mark 1:2; Luke 1:76; 7:27; John 1:23; 2:14, 15 I send My messenger, And he will  (Is. 40:3) prepare the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, Will suddenly come to His temple, Is. 63:9 Even the Messenger of the covenant, In whom you delight. Behold,  Hab. 2:7 He is coming,” Says the  Lord ...

  This year has been hard. Yes, a bit for me, but a lot for three ladies who are dear to me. One lost her spouse to cancer. Another to heart disease. The other to COVID. All lost the loves of their lives, their mate, their other half, and now they have an empty house. While at first, there will be visitors and others who will check in on them, when all that ends, they still have an empty house. Little things will catch them unaware. A noise will trigger tears. A place, an activity will bring sorrow. The tears have no set pattern, but they will, and have come. There will be times when there is no consolation, there will be times when their pillow is soaked from crying themselves to sleep. It is hard, but they all have Jesus and an Abba Father to lean into. They have prayer support from all over the world. Then, in this new season of life, they will find the things that bring them joy. It could be a stray button from his favorite shirt. Perhaps a cardinal sits in a tree chirping at t...