Wednesday Worship: Dearly We’re Bought

C.S. Lewis wrote: “If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next. The Apostles themselves, who set on foot the conversion of the Roman Empire, the great men who built up the Middle Ages, the English Evangelicals who abolished the slave trade, all left their mark on Earth because their minds were occupied with Heaven. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. Aim at Heaven and you will get earth ‘thrown in’: aim at earth and you will get neither.”

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Bella: Micah’s getting a new sword. Can I get a pink one?

Grandma: I don’t think princesses carry swords.

Bella: Oh. (Short pause) Well, then can I get a gun?

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I personally think the camo goes nicely with her purple nail polish.

Sunday Selections: We Shall Get In

God has given us the Morning Star already:
you can go and enjoy the gift on many fine mornings if you get up early enough.

What more, you may ask, do we want?
Ah, but we want so much more –
something the books on aesthetics take little notice of.
But the poets and the mythologies know all about it.
We do not want merely to see beauty,
though, God knows, even that is bounty enough.
We want something else which can hardly be put into words –
to be united with the beauty we see,
to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves,
to bathe in it, to become part of it.

Please Don’t Wait

On Monday we went to the memorial and wake for the daughter of friends… a 2-month-old who died of heart failure last week. It has been heart-wrenching, and Bri and I have grieved deeply.

At her wake, Baby G’s father stood to toast. Arm wrapped around his wife who held their other daughter of 2 years, he said, “Go home and tell your children they are wonderful. Tell them every day.”