Me: I’m plum worn out after that quilt.

Prodigal: It looks beautiful though.

This is from the book The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ. It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life. It is costly because it condemns sin, and grace because it justifies the sinner. Above all, it is costly because it cost God the life of his Son: “ye were bought at a price,” and what has cost God much cannot be cheap for us.

But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him; Matthew 12:3 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

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Prodigal: Just some time relaxing with crafts.

Me: Good drawings.

This is a short video devotion on Proverbs.

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Proverbs 15:17

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, Than a fatted calf with hatred. (NKJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

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Prodigal: Don’t leave one stone unturned.

Me: I know it, is how I found this small one.

This is from Andrew Murray

“Father, let the Holy Spirit have full dominion over me, in my home, in my temper, in every word of my tongue, in every thought of my heart, in every feeling toward my fellow men; let the Holy Spirit have entire possession.”

LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? Psalm 15:1 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

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Prodigal: I like the pattern that you have started.

Me: I think it will turn out to be great!

This is from Author Unknown

Man’s life is laid in the loom of time

To pattern he does not see,

While the weavers work and the shuttles fly

Till the dawn of eternity.

Some shuttles are filled with silver threads

And some with threads of gold,

While often but the darker hues

Are all that they may hold.

But the weaver watches with skillful eye

Each shuttle fly to and fro,

And sees the pattern so deftly wrought

As the loom moves sure and slow.

God surely planned the pattern:

Each thread, the dark and fair,

Is chosen by His master skill

And placed in the web with care.

He knows only its beauty,

And guides the shuttles which hold

The threads so unattractive,

As well as the threads of gold.

Not till each loom is silent,

And the shuttles cease to fly,

Shall God reveal the pattern

And explain the reason why.

The dark threads were as needful

In the weaver’s skillful hand

As the threads of gold and silver

For the pattern which He planned.

The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah. Psalm 140:5 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

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Prodigal: That is looking good.

Me: Yes, I bet it will taste good too.

This is a short video devotion on Proverbs.

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Proverbs 15:16

Better is a little with the fear of the LORD, than great treasure with trouble. (NKJV)

Prodigal: I got here on my Pat ‘n’ Charlie.

Me: Hope it didn’t take too long.

This is from Augustine

We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.

So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also. Romans 1:15 (KJV) Jennifer Van Allen www.theprodigalpig.com www.faithincounseling.org

Prodigal: Bountiful harvest!

Me: Amen

This is from Keep Your Love On by Danny Silk

When we break the word “responsibility” down, we find that it literally means “ability to respond.” If you remember, a response is the opposite of a reaction. “Response-ability” is the capacity to face any situation an make powerful choices that are consistent with who you say you are. It is a refusal to run away from difficulties or an part of your life or reality that you happen to dislike. When you take full ownership of your life in this way, you gain confidence and momentum in making good decisions.

The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. Psalm 50:1 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

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Prodigal: Just drawing at the moment.

Me: It looks good.

This is a short video devotion on Proverbs.

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Proverbs 15:15 All the days of the afflicted are evil, But he who is of a merry heart has a continual feast. (NKJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

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Prodigal: Just about to get something to drink.

Me: Me too,

This is from Anne Lamott

Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, “Well isn’t that fabulous? Because I need help too. So, you get that old woman over there some water, and I’ll figure out what we’re going to do about your stuff.”

Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day. 1 Thessalonians 1:5 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

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Prodigal: I am going to keep singing praises till the cows come home.

Me: Amen, let me join you.

This is from The Valley of Vison by Arthur Bennett

O Lord God, Who inhabitest eternity,

The heavens declare thy glory,

The earth thy riches,

The universe is thy temple;

Thy presence fills immensity,

Yet thou hast of thy pleasure created life,

and communicated happiness;

Thou hast made me what I am,

and given me what I have;

In thee I live and move and have my being;

Thy providence has set the bounds of my habitation,

and wisely administers of all my affairs.

I thank thee for they riches to me in Jesus,

for the unclouded revelation of him in thy Word,

where I behold his person, character, grace, glory,

humiliation, sufferings, death and resurrection;

Give me to feel a need of His continual saviourhood,

and cry with Job, “I am vile,”

with Peter, “I perish,”

with the publican, “Be merciful to me, a sinner.”

Subdue in me the love of sin,

Let me know the need of renovation as well as of forgiveness

in order to serve and enjoy thee for ever.

I come to thee in the all-prevailing name of Jesus,

with nothing of my own to plead,

no works, no worthiness, no promises.

I am often straying,

often knowingly opposing thy authority,

often abusing thy goodness;

Much of my guilt arises from my religious privileges,

my low estimation of them,

my failure to use them to my advantage,

But I am not careless of thy favor regardless of thy glory;

Impress me deeply with a sense of thine omnipresence,

that thou art about my path, my ways, my lying down, my end.

Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us. Ecclesiastes 1:10 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

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