Today is my first day as a blogger. The kids will think I've lost it.

My title comes from "The Valley of Vision" a collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions...plus we live in a valley.

What a beautiful day here! The sky is a beautiful, clear blue and the leaves are becoming glorious. The clothes line was full today, so we will sleep well on clean, sweet-smelling sheets. I asked our neighbor if I could borrow his tiller to take care of our garden for the fall. He'll drop it by some time soon. In anticipation of that event, I got busy and pulled out the rest of the dead tomatoes and poor zucchini. I still have some lettuce and spinich and parsley! I would have thought that our two frosts would have taken care of everything!

Since we are studing "Respectable Sins", by Jerry Bridges in Sunday School, of course God is using this study to work on my "worry" in light of the economic issues of the day. In my devotions today I read this by C. H. Spurgeon: "The glory of God's faithfulness is that no sin of ours has ever made Him unfaithful....God is faithful. His children might rebel. They might wander far from His statues and be chastened with many stripes. Nevertheless, He says, "My loveingkindness I will not utterly take from him, nor allow My faithfulness to fail. (Ps. 89:33) He says, "I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; and I will not remember your sins" (Is. 43:25)

God is faithful when I am not. But I continue to need to work out my salvation with fear and trembling.