This photo falls very very short of the actual event. This benign announcement didn't tell of the life changing, heart wrenching, soul awakening message dear Liz Pense had. It didn't say that I would be reduced to tears only to be made totally aware of God's power and love! A redeeming love! It doesn't even hint that her message would give me a simple grammar tool that transforms my situation...any situation really, into a God event. It didn't say that I would be having discussions and conversations with family members, friends and some total strangers about the way God took this total atheistic woman and brought her to the point of total, abandoned dependence on the creator of all things.
No, the printed page fell far short in describing the day...but then even the Bible couches huge events in subtle terms..."In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." Think about it. Roaring atoms of stuff coming together in spectacular pyrotechnic explosions? God created. And in the midst of all that event, God was thinking of us...me...and how I would be trying desperately to convey the wonder of His plan for all mankind. He, God, Father coaches his acts in such simple terms, but they have such life changing, life giving meaning for all his children! Oh that I could make a message that could truly give God the glory He is due!
Oh, wait! It would probably look like Liz Pense! And His glory is not written on the paper announcement but on a heart redeemed! Like your heart. Like my heart. Like Liz's heart! Be blessed today with the wonder of God!!
2 Corinthians 3:2-3 (New International Version)
You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everybody. You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
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