easter

"I announce to you your redemption.
Behold, I make all things new!
Behold, I do what cannot be done!
I restore the years that the locust and worms have eaten.
I restore to you the symphonies and operas which you deaf ears have never heard;
and the snowy mountains that you blind eyes have never seen; and the freedom you lost through plunder.
And I restore to you the good which your own foolish mistakes have cheated you of,
and I bring to you the love of which all other loves speak ---the love which is joy and beauty,
and which you have sought in a thousand streets and for which you have wept and clawed your pillow."
-from 'Christ the Tiger' by Thomas Howard

these days i am so very in awe and in love with Him.

everything that we see and hear and think we understand and know is only such a tiny fraction of all that He is.

and here's what i know: He sent Christ to die for our sins. Christ rose and we have salvation in Him. because of His great love, we are saved. because of His great love, this earthly life is only the beginning. He is alive and at work.

and as good and beautiful and true as that is, it's incredible to think that my deaf ears and blind eyes don't even know the half of it.

there are no words.