Something Beautiful

 

There's nothing more beautiful than knowing and being yourself. It may be harder to do that these days, but still well worth the effort of tuning out the noise and tuning into what is at work in your own spirit. 

One of the many things I love about Eden (well both of my kids, really) is that she KNOWS herself. 

Her values, boundaries, and the ways she wants to embody creative self-expression. Not because someone else told her, or she saw it online, but because she took the time to tune in and listen to the gentle voice within.  

What is Resurrection?

What is Resurrection?

First, faith was crushed.

But then, a revelation! 

Hopelessness burst

into hallelujahs.

Turning mourning into dancing.

From death, back to life?

Such power, from where?

Not iron fist, but selflessness:

Sacrificial Love. 

Struck by the reality of God’s upside down kingdom.

Or was it us who had been upside down?

Yes! We had only seen in black and white 

But now in technicolor.

Today, look to the tomb again

Where is He? Not THERE!

He is HERE! And EVERYWHERE! 

Still turning man’s wrath into dust.

Blowing it away like a spring wind 

And breathing into us- new life.

Bursting with love

Like Mary’s tears.