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May 29

A Time-less Day

My favorite kind of day is a day without any appointments. No marks to hit. Nothing scheduled. This kind of day almost never happens.

One of my favorite kinds of weather is cool and rainy and mild. Also fairly rare.

Saturday was a time-less, cool, rainy day. It was delicious.

We didn’t actually spend it lounging around in hammocks. We worked on projects and made progress on to-do lists but did it all at whatever pace, the combination of which filled my very soul.

Seriously. Delicious.

Have you had a time-less day recently? How did you spend it?

Mar 24

The book of Matthew is filled with Jesus’ teachings and his interactions with people. If you have a red-letter Bible, most of Matthew is in red. The faster you move through the book, the more intensely you are drinking in Jesus’ actual teachings.

The first time I read through the entire book of Matthew, I did it over two days and at the end I experienced the most amazing sensation. I missed him. I missed Jesus. Toward the end of the book, when there is more narration and less Jesus-speaking, I got all uneasy, and then when he was gone, I felt a strange sadness. There would be no more red-letter words to read. Read more

Mar 21

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the thread of the past: Matthew 1

Every time I read the first chapter of Matthew, I’m struck by how important it must be to trace the connections of the past to the present.

Matthew was inspired by the Holy Spirit to include Jesus’s family tree at the very beginning of his account of Jesus’ life, so, clearly, God wants us to notice.

There must be intrinsic value in us being reminded of how people in the past connect to those alive now… how a cultural past has created a current reality… how my own past has led to my own present.

But for Matthew, a genealogy like this isn’t a ‘wallowing’ experience. There is some serious drama hiding between the lines of this family tree (“Jacob was the father of Judah and his brothers“? anyone?), but Matthew doesn’t elaborate beyond his task of tracing the thread. The stories exist elsewhere for us to read; his job is to document the chain, not drag up the brokenness within it. The connections themselves are valuable.

But we still must read the stories, for only then will we understand the phenomenal truth of these people’s lives being linked to the birth of our perfect Savior. We will understand that a thread of broken people who make bad decisions has always been God’s chosen medium for displaying his glory.

In a thread like that, I can find a place to stand.

(Lent scripture blog #4)

Mar 18

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a giant pile of trust?

In the history recorded in the Old Testament, God commissions a young man named Joshua to take over leading the Israelite people after Moses’ death. Joshua must have been a little nervous, as God tells him to ‘be strong and courageous’ three times. And for good reason. These people he was going to lead did not have a history of being great followers. In chapter 1, verse 3 God says to Joshua:

I promise you what I promised Moses: ‘Wherever you set foot, you will be on land I have given you.’ Read more

Mar 18

The ridiculous truth about searching.

Yesterday, I read Psalm 40. Verse 16 got all tangled up in my head.

“May all who search for you
be filled with joy and gladness in you.
May those who love your salvation
repeatedly shout, “The Lord is great!”

Posts from the ‘musings’ Category

A Time-less Day

Reading Jesus

the thread of the past: Matthew 1

a giant pile of trust?

The ridiculous truth about searching.

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