For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.
Thessalonians 4:16-18


"and so we will always be with the Lord." We. Me and my dad. We will always be with the Lord.

You are my glory, and the lifter of my head.

-James

You have said, “Seek my face.”
My heart says to you,
“Your face, LORD, do I seek.”
Hide not your face from me.

blocks

Many of my best posts are written at 1am. I don't know why this is. I think it might be that I have self imposed emotional blocks that become tired and fall down when midnight arrives. Though...this is 1am...and I do not feel this is some of my best writing...the blocks are resilient tonight.

Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God." -Mark 10:27

Sometimes I think I become so familiar with scripture I forget to stop and be awestruck with some of the more subtle words. "Jesus looked at them and said". Jesus saw us. He spoke to us. Who are we that he should be mindful of us? He is impossibly good.

Heaven and the weight of glory can terrify you sometimes.

Father, your gospel is a soft bed for my weary soul. A solace for my disharmonious heart.

"The truly wide taste in humanity will similarly find something to appreciate in the cross-section of humanity whom one has to meet every day. In my experience it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at, then to enjoy, and finally to appreciate, the people who "happen to be there." Made for us? Thank God, no. They are themselves, odder than you could have believed and worth far more than we guessed."