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Dec 23

Ivory Palaces

My Lord has garments so wondrous fine,
And myrrh their texture fills;
Its fragrance reached to this heart of mine
With joy my being thrills.

Out of the ivory palaces,
Into a world of woe,
Only His great eternal love
Made my Savior go.

His life had also its sorrows sore,
For aloes had a part;
And when I think of the cross He bore,
My eyes with teardrops start.

Out of the ivory palaces,
Into a world of woe,
Only His great eternal love
Made my Savior go.

His garments too were in cassia dipped,
With healing in a touch;
Each time my feet in some sin have slipped,
He took me from its clutch.

Out of the ivory palaces,
Into a world of woe,
Only His great eternal love
Made my Savior go.

In garments glorious He will come,
To open wide the door;
And I shall enter my heav’nly home,
To dwell forevermore.

Out of the ivory palaces,
Into a world of woe,
Only His great eternal love
Made my Savior go.

Henry Barraclough

Dec 22

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The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Welcome to the week to stop time and revel in the Savior’s work. The most wonderful time of the year.  All around the world, marketing companies and consumer product businesses are working their hardest to convince us that the birth of the Savior is best expressed by pink plastic doll houses, the latest Madden game, and designer basketball shoes. No, the best way to express the birth of the Savior is in one sentence:

But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

The fullness of the time: the appropriate time, the appointed time, the designated time. Eternity spun into days, months, hours, years. Logos descending into Time. Read more

Dec 22

Abundant Greetings

“And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.”

“And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.”

“Then said Jesus unto the twelve, ‘Will ye also go away?’ Then Simon Peter answered him, ‘Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.”

Our family’s prayer being that all your plans and preparations  draw you to Him and His precious Words of life and that His abundance toward you will inspire loyalty and love for Him and His cause.

Blessed Merry and Holy Christmas!

Dec 21

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Daily Dose 62: Marathon

Who practices more, the runner for the 100 meter dash, or the runner for the marathon? Real runners for either of those races would both practice a great deal. The difference is not how much they practice, but how they practice, because the needs of the races are very different.

The sprinter goes as fast as he or she can, every  muscle primed for that burst of speed. Allowing any one to pass imperils their chance of winning. Marathon runners must pace themselves, preserving energy for key times in the race. Another runner leading even helps set a good pace, until it’s time to pull ahead.

So, life is more like which—a sprint or a marathon? We’d all agree there are sprinting moments, but life itself is much more like a marathon. Read more

Dec 20

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Daily Dose 61: 5 O’Clock Quitting Time

Mom was a simple, straight forward stay-at-home mom, at the time when every mother stayed home. Our one car went to work with our dad. The milk man, the bread man, and the insurance man all routinely came to our home, the side door. The first two left FOOD, which greatly interested us as children; the third came to collect money, which held no interest for us whatsoever.

Our first teenage babysitter came one night when I was probably in fourth or fifth grade. Other than that, Grandma Wilson appeared for a week or so whenever a new baby was born, or mom was home with us. My dad even did the grocery shopping every other Friday night (on payday, it turns out) after coming home for dinner and picking up one of the children for their turn on the shopping adventure.  Read more

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