"Musings and Wanderings"
A Collection of Thoughts and Talks with God
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Everything has gone pretty well this morning. I have finished my breakfast, done my devotional reading and am enjoying the rest of my coffee. As I am sitting here, my eyes light on some medicine I need to be taking. The thought flits through my mind that for some people, reading one’s Bible can be likened to taking medicine.
We go to the doctor when we are ailing. Depending upon the ailment, he gives us a prescription which we take to the pharmacist to get filled. We take it home and set it on the table as a reminder to take it. Day after day we look at it, but we never open the vial. We read the instructions and set it back down. After a while, we forget it. When the ailment returns, we think, “Oh, I have medicine for that. Why am I feeling this way again?”
Similarly, we buy this nice leather-bound Bible with gold-edged pages thinking that someday we’ll read what God has to say. We place it conspicuously on a table where everyone can see it. We look at it and think how beautiful it is. The television show comes on we wanted to see. The Bible sits untouched. Once in a while, we may dust it off, but there is always a TV show or the newspaper waiting for attention. It just seems that it gets skipped over and we never open it. We never read it. Then we wonder why our spiritual life doesn’t grow. In the words of a teenager – DUH!!!
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What I have written and put together has turned out to be such a hodge-podge of different subjects, even though not all my thoughts are included. Maybe this will be good, since it will bring variety as the accounts are presented. I never know from one day to the next where my wanderings with God will take me. This is what makes it such a wonderful adventure.
About the Author
Wilma (Cook) Rennels is a graduate of Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, IL, class of 1955. While there, she met her future husband, Bill Rennels. She was his helpmate during the fifty-seven years he preached. Thirty-nine of those years were spent at Glenwood Church in rural Noble, IL. Bill passed away in September of 2012. After her husband’s death, her writing increased and developed into a much closer relationship with her heavenly Father.
Wilma is proud to be the mother of two, grandmother of three and “Nana” to seven. She enjoys her work as the Director of Music at Glenwood Church. She likes to cook up her own concoctions, some being dismal failures and she is a “NASCAR buff.”
During her extensive illness in 2009/2010, Wilma began keeping journals of her devotions. These journals have developed into what she calls her “Musings and Wanderings.” She felt God was leading her to share these writings with the folk at church. After the urging of friends and her church family, she decided to share some of them with others which resulted in this work.
Wilma’s objective is for others to realize that God is a Friend who is always present and interested in our daily lives. He can be approached at any time and will listen even to the most mundane thoughts of His children. She feels that the peace of God has deepened her own life and she wants others to possess it also.