Circumstances can be such that we quit breathing. Fear, or anxiety, or pain, serve us a blow and we hold our breath, unwittingly — our prayers caught somewhere in our throats. We forget the oxygen of lifting our voice to the Lord. We don’t always realize when we’ve cut off our life-source –- when we’ve sealed […]
He sits looking over the balcony, weaving as He watches. A golden strand in His hand, He weaves it into the garment as an eternal witness of this moment…this flash of time. Garments interwoven with gold (Ps. 45: 13, 14). “It will never be forgotten,” He says. “Forever it will adorn this one I love.” […]
We don’t even know what to do with the Nativity story (Lk. 2:1-20). We never have. We’ve romanticized it for the children and glittered it in such a way that they might somehow think it’s wonderful to be born among cows, in the dark and in the cold. What else can you do with the […]
Anything that cools the flames of love, John Wesley said, that is what ‘the world’ is. The little phrase has stayed with me all week. For in our approach to passages like the following, we often treat the world as if we’ve mastered its deception, and in this posture we forget both the subtly of […]
His beauty stretches a spectrum So vastly beyond the eye’s perception Involving extremes so rarely embraced in entirety. His loveliness spans heights and depths Excessively above the minds comprehension A distance so wideranging Making rare the heart that adores Him From His summits to His valleys. He is white and He is ruddy. He is […]
Sometimes, when the Lord speaks, we find ourselves thrown off by His words, taken aback at His forthrightness, and we are unable to reconcile His piercing words which incite trembling with the many kind words He’s spoken at other times – words of tenderness and affection. Why such seeming contradiction? How do these words come […]