There's a boat out there in front of me…here at the beach…squinting at the intrusion of sunshine through my cover of grey cloth…the quietness of the roar of the sea…the stillness of this ceaseless surging and crashing and retreat…amazing the effect on me is one of stillness, quietness, calm…
The toy grains of sand all have their place in the universe…just like me…but they are as unaware of it, as I am of mine…
Christus Victor--amazing story of unforeseen wisdom/grace…totally unpredictable…rescue of sinners in a moral universe! "with God nothing is impossible"…
The beauty of your heart, the grace of your ways, the example of your Victor--"a theology of suffering and death"…obedience and loyalty and innocence…"knowing good and evil"…
Life swirls around me in the sea, the air, the ground, the hearts that seek this place (okay with me), the meditation of my heart…
Your faithfulness and depth of love is so strange, but its only terrifying occasionally…
This window closes, as the sun and warmth drive me away, send me back to my world of nexus, responsibility, failure, uncertainty--but opportunity, pedagogy, transformation, creation…life among death, light on two legs, bi-pedal, bi-cameral hope-bearer…forgiveness, recovery, delight--at His pace, with His craftsmanship, with his seal of grace and authority on it…
Thank You again for showing me your presence and the beauty of that Heart…
A public display of unexpected love--the Cross
Fall/2001