I bumped into a tired old paperback on a neglected couch-side shelf this week. Its yellowing pages and faded cover picture a man kneeling at a stool, head in hands. Its title is Waiting on God, by Andrew Murray. Flipping it open I scanned a few lines and realized this was the book I needed […]
“The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed…” and we wait…groaning inwardly, as we wait eagerly for our adoption—the redemption of these bodies…(Rom.8:19) these bodies—transient containers that give out… I sit in the Alzheimer’s ward babysitting (or was it visiting?) my dad. He’s sacked […]
I sat sobbing as the credits rolled, overwhelmed by the story I had just seen, the love of a devoted wife that had stuck with her man through thick and thin, through insanity and paranoia—true genius gone amuck. She was beautiful and committed, her man’s salvation. And here was her reward–as he stood at the […]
I guess I did not anticipate the upheaval this trip would bring to my soul—There was grace for the going, grace for the doing and the being there (though not without some fear and trembling). There were ‘travelling mercies’–companions along the way to shorten the journey with conversation, and empty seats when silence was preferable, […]
Sometimes you become the answer to your own prayers…It was this way for Moses I guess. One fine afternoon on the backside of nowhere he gets a call, “Moses, Moses!” “Here I am”, he says. And the next thing you know God is saying, actually what matters is that “I AM” here. I’ve seen my […]