Did that little girl from Bethany that was once in her twenties wake up one day in her thirties – or forties – with a tinge of regret? Shades of loss hanging over her like a storm cloud, for the spent inheritance, poured out in a single moment of time? (Jn. 12:1-8) Did she hear […]
We stood looking out into the golden setting sun – barely past our twentieth birthdays – our lives like spanned horizons themselves, waiting for dawning colors. “Unnecessary beauty,” I said. “He could have made the whole thing black and white! Yet for love, He does this every day!” Looking on with agreement, he added the […]
The years sprawl out behind me, like an unfurled scroll of well-worn and tear-stained words – the times and seasons that were once my future – now my history. What was once a trembling question mark of what a burning heart of early twenties would look like after more than a decade, after four children, […]
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.” […]
How much am I worth to you? This the question that He asks a thousand times in a thousand ways – both direct and indirect to every believer’s soul – and it sifts through me swiftly, weighing His worth within me like an inward scale. Always accurate. How it exposes and cuts away at 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 […]