Author: ruthbillingsley

Memories and traditions have a way of shaping our present and our future. The places we have gone and the things we have done shape our individual lives as well as our family identity. One of our family traditions is fishing. Bob took our sons Bryan and Greg fishing at a young age.  We traveled to Colorado every year…

A recent devotional from Our Daily Bread has given me the inspiration for today’s blog. When knife crime rose in the United Kingdom, the British Ironwork Centre came up with an idea.  Working with the police, they built 200 deposit boxes and placed them around the country.  100,000 knives were anonymously surrendered, some with bloodstains still on…

Psalm 1 is the beginning of a blessed walk with God through the book of Psalms.  It contrasts the holiness and happiness of a godly man with the sinfulness and misery of a wicked man.  It is a message of warning, instruction, blessings, bearing fruit and consequences.   1.  Warning: Are you walking down the right path? Do not walk, stand,…

We have had a lot of rain this week in Arkansas, a good opportunity to see God’s handiwork!  Rainbows are an awesome phenomenon to witness.  It doesn’t matter how many times I have seen one, each and every time it leaves me in awe.   I have to stop and praise God for His creative beauty and wondrous power.  Heavenly…

“Why do the nations conspire And the people plot in vain? Kings and rulers take their stand. Against the Lord they reign.”                                         (Psalm 2 “A Book of Psalms”)   We have people in our country who are conspiring and plotting in vain.  They are taking a stand to solve our problems of social injustice by advocating…

With all that is happening in the world today and the despair we see all around us, my focus this week is on hope, the kind of hope that can only be realized in Christ.  My poem, “Hope” (“From My Heart”) is based on Lamentations 3:22-32.  In Chapter 3 Jeremiah was in affliction.  He was walking in darkness…

God’s Wisdom for Today’s World Today my third book of poetry is being released and is available for purchase. I pray that it will be a guide to readers as they study the book of Proverbs and learn the truths of God’s wisdom. I would like to highlight Chapter 8 today. God’s wisdom is calling…

Bob and I have been fishing on the San Juan River in New Mexico since 2010. We always have a guide who helps us catch “monster” trout on a fly so small it can barely be seen.  Our guide in those early years was Rusty, always teaching and guiding us to success.  He would teach us about the…

I wrote “God’s Face” on September 24, 2007 (I keep a record of each poem I write). That morning I read Genesis 32:20. “So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, it is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.” I began to think of seeing God face to face….

My granddaughter Mae and I found a turtle as we were exploring around the lake a few years ago.  We kept it for a while, feeding it lettuce and giving it water.  We decided it would be happier if we let it go so we painted a heart on its shell to see if he stays close-by,…