Len sent this to my inbox. It is a terrific poem. I hope it blesses you.
GRACE...
Multiply the innocence on the face
of your favorite child
times infinity.
Surround it with darkness,
cruel jealousy and sin.
Now look to Golgotha: Behold
the face of the purest heart
ever beheld by angels or men,
bloodied and battered,
spat upon and cursed,
and crying . . .
"Father! forgive them...
Father! forgive them...
I offer my self
in their place,
for their soul.
Forgive them."
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Cf. Isaiah 53. Psalms 22 and 88. Matthew 27:33-54.
Luke 23:32-44.
John 18:4-11; 19:29-37.
I was talking to Pam (Yeah! We are talking again!) and I just had it in my mind to share a recent grace in my life. I wrote this as an encouragement:
... and time is stretched thin, but I have found this to be true, God will stretch time for His children, and give them more then 24 hours in a day, if they ask for it. It is weird, but I have had 3 meetings in the span of an hour and a half, while running behind schedule and facing traffic that makes the road trip longer then 2 hours just for that ... and yet, I swear that it is true, an answer to prayer makes it so that I reach every appointment on-time in that hour and a half, though it is impossible. I shared this with a few of my sub-contractors and they have reported the same thing. When they needed time to be stretched, God must have done it, because it is impossible to do in one hour what sometimes they are called upon to do, and yet with prayer there seems to be time to spare.
So, I encourage you to ask for these things that you need to get through the day ... if it is to survive 1 month on 1 meal, you can find God's grace for that ... if it is to drive 500 miles on one gallon, God has done it before and can do it again. Those things can't be any harder for Him then stretching time so that a few guys can make their appointments ... Isn't He amazing?!?!
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