Do Not Weep For Me
Do not weep me
Grieving over my fall from grace
For he forgave me
And I outpaced the echoes
Of each demon's stalking stride.
Once upon a time
I shared bread he broke
And sipped wine he blessed.
Hopeful Waiting
Waiting is an activity with impressive documentation throughout Scripture, yet it's astonishingly ignored in most constructs of how to live the Christian life. Waiting isn't a passive occupation but an active and hopeful orientation toward the activity of God for which there's no present evidence. Refusal to wait is a refusal to trust. Paul never counselled passivity or quietism. He did, however, commend the hopeful waiting that expects Christ to save the day-not only in the Second Coming but also in all the daily comings where he shows up in our lives, offering salvation from one kind of doom or another, whether a doomed marriage or a dommed business or simply a doomed attitude. Eugene H. Peterson I Speak Jesus
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