The Wonder of the Cross – Day 31 – Better Than Life
When we finally learn that indeed, ‘your steadfast love is better than life’, the only thing we can do is praise and dance and sing.
When we finally learn that indeed, ‘your steadfast love is better than life’, the only thing we can do is praise and dance and sing.
I really do hope that, however God made the world, God did not just speak words but sang as well!
God is a God of love and welcome and we need to set aside the lies about condemnation which our early faith may have taught us
Our Beloved in leaving us does not leave us desolate but leaves reminders of his presence. Perhaps not in an enchanted place but in ordinary things
To be able to provide a home for another is a precious gift, to know that our Beloved provides a home for us makes all our challenges, whether they involve squatting bishops or not, melt away.
Fierce weather has a way of shaking the fidgets out of my system. Not just the cobwebs of life but the things that I’ve been clinging on to for no good reason other than they are mine and nobody else’s; and such things always weigh me down instead of setting me free.
Vengeance is the ultimate form of silliness. It accomplishes nothing because it cannot restore anything.
With our petty arguments over whether we were being ‘Bouncy or Coffy’ or even ‘Boffy’ how ever will those around us be able to see we are Christians by the way we love one another?
Like the Grinch we must learn that friendship and joy is never about possessions and gifts and stuff, but about each other. When we finally realise that all our hearts will ‘Grow three sizes’.
Those of us who are in a position to be generous can easily fall into the trap of thinking that those who receive help should ‘like it or lump it’.