“Karen’s Notes!

Insights from a Glory-Bound Lady”

Selected Notes

Volume 5 Number 20 “What a Great Reminder! ”

May 18, 2022

Over the next few weeks, I am looking back over the dozens and dozens of “Karen’s Notes” that I’ve posted. From these I am going to once again share several with the hope and prayer that the Lord will bless as He did when it was first published. From 2018, may the Lord bless you as you consider the very special word R-E-A-D-E-R!

I sat holding Karen’s Bible and thought of the years that the lady I married carried this. She had taught boys and girls from this Bible as well as ladies in seminars, counseling, and Bible studies. I have seen her reading this quietly in her favorite place in our living room. I have seen her teach her own children and remind them, “What does the Bible say?” While I certainly do not worship her Bible, I do worship the Author!

To my delight, as I was leafing through Karen’s Bible, I discovered a little outline that I had shared years and years ago. She had written it on the fly leaf of her Bible. It is a little outline that explains what to do when hard times come.

It will spell out ‘R-E-A-D-E-R.’

Karen wrote: When hard times come:

R= Remember He is God!

E= Examine my life. Is this because of sin or is God refining me?

A= Admit my need of Him.

D= Depend fully upon Him.

E= Express worship and praise to Him.

R= Respond to His teaching.

Michael’s observation: Of the many verses that meant a lot to Karen and me during her journey with cancer, I think probably Psalm 46:10 really became her rock of stability. “Be still and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.” Learning to be still will help us on the journey to becoming a better “R-E-A-D-E-R”!