Five things I heard this week…or over the holidays:
- You didn’t want heaven without us…So Jesus You brought heaven down…My sin was great Your love was greater…What could separate us now – from What a Beautiful Name by Hillsong Worship. (click to hear the song)
- Winter comes home from visiting a friend and pulls out this beautiful olive green cashmere sweater. He says, “Look at the treasure I found. Thrift store. Six dollars!” We oohed and awed at its softness. (we’re cotton people.) A few days later Winter is doing laundry when it occurs to me to make sure he doesn’t wash the sweater. Too late. “I can’t have anything nice!” he pouted as he threw himself on his bed. (fyi, the sweater is okay. it survived the wash and was never put into the dryer.)
- I heard the silence on the other end of a conversation. Ugh! As the saying suggest, it was pretty loud.
- The Kingdom of Heaven is like a merchant looking for pearls – Matthew 13:45. The odds of finding a pearl are 0.008% or 1 in 12,000 (thank you Google). That’s a lot of shucking. So, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is willing to keep looking, keep shucking, keep digging, keep touching gross snotty like things until he finds the rare, valuable gem.
- It is better to feel a complicated rhythm rather than count it precisely. When you are too calculated, it will loose its essence.
Brave Sparrow 