This Beautiful Mundane

"Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani"  My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Mark 15:34 Angels, maybe the same that heralded His birth, watched from afar. Were they pleading to be summoned to His aid? Did their hands tense over the hilt of their swords, muscles taut, ready to fall upon the enemies of their Lord? Could they even bear to look upon the willful desecration of the King of kings? What was it like for the perfectly united trinity of the Godhead to pour out their wrath upon themselves? Indeed, the suffering of the cross was much more than physical torture (though it most assuredly was that!) There was an imputation that occurred, the full wrath of God for the full weight of sin. I can't even wrap my mind around the agony that must have lead to that cry from our Lord.  Then, he breathed and said, "It is finished." And He died.  That is not what we expect!  Did Mary know that He would rise again? Did she understand what her Son had just accomplished for her ...

I discovered a mistake that I made - It wasn't very big, a silly mistake to be perfectly honest.  It was made in the haste of typing the thoughts that came into my head, and I didn't notice it for a year. When I wrote my book, I had intended to say, "you are" and somehow I managed to write, "your are" - And I never noticed it until the paperback back books came. Even then, it had to be pointed out to me, I was horrified by my mistake, and frustrated that I hadn't seen it before.  It made a lot of extra work, and postponed something that I was really looking forward to - the public release of my book, ' The King's Watchman ' It brought to mind some things that God has been teaching me.  Having people in your life that hold you accountable is so incredibly important! We've been going through the book of Titus at my church on Sunday mornings. The role of the older men is mentoring the younger men, the role of the older women, is mentoring th...