At Home in the Promised Land
Finding Counsel, Correction, and Comfort in God's Holy Word
"YOU ARE MY REFUGE AND MY SHIELD;
I HAVE PUT MY HOPE IN YOUR WORD."
PSALM 119:114
About Me
I am Sherry Coyle, a 58-year-old follower of Christ, wife to Darin for 33 years, and mother to three grown children (Alex, Ashlee, who's married to Guy, and Luke).
And I love God's Word.
Those closest to me know the quiet darkness of the early morning hours is my absolute favorite time of day. Bible spread out on my lap, steaming coffee and an ink pen in hand, and clean journal page dated, I meet with my Heavenly Father. Frequently in need of His counsel, often His comfort, and time and again, His loving parental correction.
Many mornings, in need of all three.
From these meetings, God inspires me to write. Thus, the creation of this space.
My sincere prayer is that my words might help the reader hear God's voice and, most importantly to me, be inspired to live life "at home in the promised land."
For a sojourner, there's just no other home to be.
At Home In the Promised Land
Reflections on Hebrews 11:8
Morning by morning, day after day, through the varying seasons of life, we make our “home in the promised land” of the Creator's Holy Word.
It’s the place we let our hair down, the place where there’s no pretense, no fronts, no having it all together.
A place that’s real. And raw. And revealing.
A place of tears and sorrows, but also laughter and joy.
Abundant, oft-indescribable joy.
After all, it’s home.
It’s our blazing hearth and much-needed warmth during the icy-cold blasts of life.
It's our refreshing dip in the living water when the sweltering heat of Satan and sin seeks to beat us down, wear us out.
Our place of security, renewal, and peace that shuts out Earth's clamorous noise and competing distractions.
It’s our counsel, our correction, our comfort.
The sacred abode where the wisdom, authority, and affirmations of the Holy Trinity are wondrously unveiled.
It's our personal sanctuary in this temporary life on earth.
In His land of promise, hope, and longing.
The only home a stranger in a foreign land is truly at rest.
The impenetrable, tranquil fortress our loving Father graciously gave as we sojourn to our Forever Home.
"Thy statues have been my songs
in the house of my pilgrimage."
Psalm 119:54
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Psalm 73:28
"But as for me, it is good to be near God. I have made the Sovereign LORD my refuge; I will tell of all your deeds."