Day: April 17, 2012

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As the Deer

Photo credit: Denise L. White

“As the deer pants for streams of water,    so my soul pants for you, my God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.    When can I go and meet with God?” Psalm 42: 1-2 NIVThe desire to seek after the Lord should be constant.   Our lives never satisfied with material things, needless activities and experiences.  That’s why we consume more, fill our homes with stuff and go from relationship to relationship, because our souls are missing God.  We need the living water that only He can provide. By drinking of the life-giving, soul satisfying, spirit filling waters of God, we find soul satisfaction no earthly pleasure can match.

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All Things New

The film by Mel Gibson, The Passion of the Christ depicts the last 12 hours of Jesus Christ on earth.  If anyone who has seen the film can’t help but be moved by the gruesome, horrific scenes.  However, there are some poignant ones.  One in particular tugged at my heart.  Jesus’ mother running to get closer to Jesus as he’s carrying his cross.  Followed by a disciple and the other Mary, she stopped with tears dripping down her face, frozen in time as her mind floats back to a earlier time.  
Caught between two moments in time, she remembers,when he was a child and had fallen and she ran to comfort him, and now this moment her son now a man has fallen to the ground, bloody, bruised, beaten.  She runs to him again and gently touches his face when he speak to her in whispers, “See mother, I make all things new.”  Sorrow and hope wrapped in precious blood surrounded by sneers, taunts, whips, angry voices.  Abundant life slowly, straining with every painful step through Via Dolorosa to create a new, bright shiny life for the world-for you and me.

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