As I was down on the banks of the river, watching the sun melt away the mist, God brought back to mind a song I hadn’t heard in years–a song called Create in Me A Clean Heart by Keith Green. The words go like this…
“Lord, it’s hard to turn the other cheek
Hard to bless when others curse you
Oh Lord, it’s hard to be a man of peace
Lord, it’s hard, oh it’s hard,
You know it’s hard to be like Jesus
Don’t you know it’s hard, oh it’s hard,
Oh Lord, it’s hard to be like Jesus And it’s hard when your soul […]
Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord;
O Lord, hear my voice.
Let your ears be attentive
to my cry for mercy. If you, O Lord, kept a record of my sins,
O Lord, who could stand?
But with you there is forgiveness;
therefore you are feared. I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,
and in his word, […]
With all the franticness of life, we need to find the humility to admit that God has a plan for the strait-jacket we feel ourselves being tightened into. Constraints can push us into despair or push us into God. Despair gets us to God eventually, too, but if you have the choice, press in to […]
“O Lord, Thank you for my daisy.
It helped me to not go crazy.”
- Ted Skinner (my roommate, jokingly making fun of me)
Tuesday a week ago, I was walking through a field late at night, and I picked a solitary daisy that was growing in the field. I brought it home with me. I put […]