If You Want To Do The Work

One Of The Most Painful Aspects Of Suffering Is The Loneliness Of It. Others May Offer Support Or Empathy, But No One Can Walk The Road To Moriah In Our Place.

It's Better To Have The Faith To Embrace Reality With All Its Pain Than To Cling To The False Comfort Of A Painless Fantasy.

There Is Such A Love, A Love That Creates Value In What Is Loved. There Is A Love That Turns Rag Dolls Into Priceless Treasures. There Is A Love That Fastens Itself Onto Ragged Little Creatures, For Reasons That No One Could Ever Quite Figure Out, And Makes Them Precious And Valued Beyond Calculation. This Is Love Beyond Reason. This Is The Love Of God.

When I Teach The Formal Curriculum, I Have The Chance To Think About It Ahead Of Time. I Can Rehearse It. I Can Illustrate It With Self-deprecating Humor And Humble-sounding Personal Disclosure. I Can Try To Make It Comes Out Just Right.

Every Day You And I Walk Through God's Shop. Every Day We Brush Up Against Objects Of Incalculable Worth To Him. People. Every One Of Them Carries A Price Tag, If Only We Could See It.