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8.27.13

when the book you've been learning through with the kids every morning says what you've all been working at, that you can only identify a lie if you know first the truth, and the only way to know truth is to dive into it, with your eyes and ears and nose and spirit engaged, and really wade through it and get deep in the truth.

and because learning the truth is a slow process, we wade into it slowly with careful and hope-filled steps, senses blazing.

8.12.13

when you sit with her in her bedroom and play Barbies with her and the one blonde doll falls awkwardly next to Ken and she says, "they kissed" and the conversation that pulls all the years together begins:

"It's okay if they kiss because they're married."

"Yes. They are married. You are married."

"Yes. I am."

"Will I get married?"

"Yes, someday."

"Who will I marry?"

"I don't know. But God knows and he will show you. He'll show you lots of things when you need to know."

"He will? How? Does Jesus live in our tummies?"

"Yes, he lives in our hearts when we ask him to."

"Can I pray and ask Jesus to live in my heart so he can help me?"

"Now???! Sure!"

And she prays this full and confident and small prayer and she smiles and she knows Jesus will help her and we are blessed to watch the sufficiency of grace take root in this soul that wonders what her future will be like and we applaud a Living God who wraps his voice into the hallows of a little girl and sings His songs to her until she says YES! and we smile praise to the god who gives life and takes life and transforms life, who promises her a new heart and a new song and a life full of freedom and stability.

9.26.2012

9.9.2012

when the things that you've been thinking about from Monday through Saturday are the things that get said on Sunday morning when you're with people whom you trust and love.

when the simple truth that there is a creator of this whole earth and all its people and creatures becomes like a new song in your heart and you know that this simple truth makes your reality concrete and sustainable. and how that creator didn't start the ball spinning and then walk away to let it unravel, but that all things...all our days, all our moments, all our souls... are held together by him.

when she said it while sitting here at the kitchen table, about how this child needs to know that he's in the deep trenches of laying the foundations of learning with reading and writing and that this is his God-given responsibility right now, it made perfect sense. and then it was said again at church, that foundations matter and Christ is the supreme foundation for all of life and beyond, the only foundation that lasts forever.

It is good when Monday through Saturday and Sunday are intertwined. God is faithful, day in and day out.