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I Thirst

Thirst  "I thirst!" He cried.   and I couldn't comprehend Thirst it screamed within His soul     His life is near the end "I thirst!" He cried     Separated, Sacrificed He drank the Cup of Wrath     Pleased, God crushed Him Justice on our behalf. "I thirst" I cried Thirst created by a chasm     Heightened by the pain Cloaking me in darkness     Keeping me in shame He thirst, He died    The dividing curtain tore He thirst so I    May thirst no more.  KG 2013

What I know ......

Reflection. A pause to ponder things of the past. Lately, things have come across my path - blogs, conversations - that have caused me to reflect. I will celebrate my 25th wedding anniversary this year. Amazing! It sounds so cliche' but "Where has the time gone?"  I have changed so much in 25 years. My ideas. My beliefs. My goals. Where is the 18 year old girl that thought she would be a pediatric psychiatrist and put her children in daycare? I look and see that she and I are so different. Yet a part of her still dwells in the shadows of me.  How times change! When we swaddled that first child and brought her home, we were the progressive parents and we were going to get it right unlike the generations before. Progressive would have been better titled permissive and child-whipped. By the time child number two was coming home, we came to the conclusion this isn't working. We joined a parenting class that taught us a lot about discipline, but not much grace. This was

Lessons from Jonah

Consider Jonah. A man chosen by God to reveal the words of God to the people. What a calling! God also called him to preach to a highly feared and violent group of people - the country of Nineveh. He did what almost any of us would do or at least think of doing - he ran. He is swallowed, broken and Jonah preaches. However, the story isn't about Jonah. It is about God! Jonah is the picture of any child of God that goes astray - the child that stamps his foot and says my way is better.  God met Jonah in the middle of sea.   Romans 8:  But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. 38   For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,  39  nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.   Including the middle of the sea. God, in His great mercy, took a hold of Jonah and put him i