The Tale of a Baseball Mitt
We all have things in our past that we regret. Usually, we know when we've done wrong.
We all have things in our past that we regret. Usually, we know when we've done wrong.
That bright Saturday morning, with my daughter Erika, and her two sons, Andrew and Caleb, ages 8 and 9, we took that challenging hike. We'd scrambled up the 4500 feet to the top, walked across the flat, green meadow that was like a table.
It was a stinging experience, but I remembered that earlier prayer and the answer God gave me.
Think about it. We can talk about our life that is about seventy-some years in a little over an hour.
It's hard to wait. But that's what we are to do.
What I realized were the memories of that life in the house were the most important. And they're still there, fresh in my mind. The voices. The smells.
We all have a time to live here on earth and then die.
Do you make plans for the new year? Goals, resolutions?
He doesn't yell at us. He doesn't withhold mercy. He simply asks us to recognize our wrongs and confess them. And then he forgives.
I heard the words when I was deep in grief to "lean into the grief", to let the sorrow envelope you like the waves of the ocean. Work with it, and you will move through it. You will be stronger for it.