VALidations

Oh Lord, you are the sea we are the shore your waves crash churning up hidden treasure. Lord, you are the sea we are but a vapor a shadow of you mist that will soon vanish. Can the sand contain the ocean? Who can number its depths or heights? Who can name where the sky touches the sea, where they meet at last and are one? Glorious are your tempests devouring the shorelines eating them away until your waves are grey with millions of grains of sand. In your depths they sparkle They dance, weightless twirling to the music of your currents at last one with the sea. God, help us to welcome your waves your terrifying, sanctifying waves condense the vapor of our lives turn the sand to diamonds...the mist to ocean. Set us free to dance to the rhythm of your breaking waves.

I am falling in love with paradoxes...A paradox is defined as "a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true."  What a perfect definition for experiencing life with God.  He's both loving and terrifying, both meek and majestic, both gentle and wrathful, the list goes on and on.  Looking through our limited lens it is often difficult to make sense of these attributes of God.  But with further investigation and explanation (and I would add experience), these paradoxes of God are proven to be  the only truth and the only reality; a reality we will all face someday. During the week leading up to Easter, some call it Holy Week, I stumbled upon a daily devotional by John Piper.  He wrote a beautiful word-picture of Christ that I would like to share with you. "A little lamb was born all wooly-white with skinny legs and a wet nose, pretty much like all the other little ...