Wild Kingdom

If animals had my problem...

Oh Yeah!

My mind is aglow with whirling transient nodes of thought careening through a cosmic vapor of invention.

Because of Love

The proclamation of the gospel is the proclamation of the forgiveness of sin, not a promise of the potential for forgiveness based on us and what we do.

 

One thing is certain: Jesus didn’t tell us to love our enemies while He won’t love His own. He has loved and so we love. He has forgiven and so we forgive. Thank God, grace doesn’t require an invitation. Instead, it rushes right into the place where it is needed simply because of love.

 

 

Steve McVey

Lord, have mercy

You wonder what to do when you feel attacked on all sides by seemingly irresistible forces, waves that cover you and want to sweep you off your feet.  Sometimes these waves consist of feeling rejected, feeling forgotten, feeling misunderstood.  Sometimes they consist of anger, resentment, or even the desire for revenge, and sometimes of self-pity and self-rejection.  These waves make you feel like a powerless child abandoned by your parents.

What are you to do?  Make the conscious choice to move the attention of your anxious heart away from these waves and direct it to the One who walks on them and says, "It's me.  Don't be afraid" (Matthew 14:27; Mark 6:50; John 6:20).  Keep turning your eyes to him and go on trusting that he will bring peace to your heart.  Look at him and say, "Lord, have mercy."  Say it again and again, not anxiously but with confidence that he is very close to you and will put your soul to rest.

Henri Nouwen

Few really know

Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel.  Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.

Niccolo Machiavelli