I am an astronaut on my way to the moon. For years I have trained and trained, stretched my brain to understand the rocket that is to take me there. I know how this spacecraft works, down to every knob and meter, every strap and latch. I ride in it every day, [...]
Our first baby was a first grandchild. As soon as he was old enough to laugh, everyone tried to make him. Or, perhaps people assumed that if a baby is not constantly entertained and given attention, he will cry. They gave him just that: constant attention.
“Here, want this toy?” Someone plops [...]
Trying to eavesdrop
on conversations
between Son and Father
I heard nothing
and did not understand.
I wanted in
on their secrets.
Were they talking
about me?
Then—
forgiveness, redemption, adoption—
His secret became mine.
He calls me ‘friend’
and in new-found intimacy
I hear
not with my ear
on the other side
of the door
but face to face.
“No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what [...]
Now, after the confession and the pruning, how shall I proceed? How can I bear fruit in keeping with repentance? How shall I direct my feet so that I do not continue on the wrong path but turn on the right one? What will keep me away from loving man more than [...]
The ache comes and goes so regularly that I can count on it. I called it “loneliness,” but perhaps that was a misnomer. Perhaps a more accurate diagnosis is “homesickness”—an increasing desire for and anticipation of heaven, like the Psalm 84 yearning and longing. In that case, it would be a healthy [...]
Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
(John 12:3 ESV)
Jesus,
my Lord,
let my love for you be reckless.
Let my worship be
a fragrance beyond obvious
so that all who are [...]
...to Know-Love-Obey God
