his passage serves as a reminder that our tendency is to think of God through the lenses crafted in our humanity or in our family. If we are used to experiencing erratic and capricious behavior, we are prone to think of God in the same terms.
Christ will be everywhere he was before and maybe in some new places as well.
even as we traverse adversity and are shaped and molded by the trials and careless wounds that sometimes get inflicted upon us, the refuge of God’s love and care is always available to us—as close and as precious as a breath.
I look at these groups of people in different churches and I look at the sewing ladies, and I see hope for the church. I see commitment and dedication – one stitch at a time.
One phrase has always jumped out at me. “He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.”
Meryl Streep is a hypocrite. She is probably the biggest hypocrite in Hollywood, maybe the world. Of course, there are lots of hypocrites in Hollywood. Eva Longoria, Leonardo DeCaprio, Morgan Freeman, George Clooney. Oprah Winfrey is a hypocrite too. That’s right, all of them! They’re all hypocrites.
There are some days that are better than others, like days when you don’t hit every red light when you’re late leaving the house for work, or you ran out of milk after and remit only remembered after you had poured the cereal.
It is the ‘Blessed is…takes no offense’ structure of the verse that perplexes me. I am blessed if I take no offense in what Jesus says and does?
Mostly I think about fighting, about triumphing over evil, about the conquering army that will finally usher in Righteousness. I want to be in that army, waving my cudgel with the best of them.
At college, I was confused by a fellow student who always appeared to be happy. “You always appear to be happy,” I told her, puzzled.