Archives for May 2010

“We need God in ways we do not know. Don’t limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.”

– John Piper

“Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.”

– Martin Luther

“I once was lost but now I’m found.”

Once when Kaylee was around 5 years old, she lost me in a big crowd. Notice I said “she lost me.” Even though we were in the midst of a gazillion people, I never lost sight of her. I called to her over and over but she could not hear me above the noise of the crowd. I watched her as she cried. I watched as she became increasingly terrified. I watched as she kept getting farther and farther away from me in her confusion. Finally I just barrelled through the crowd and snatched her up. We wept with relief and she kept saying over and over, “Mommy I couldn’t find you.” And I told her, “I was right here all along but I just couldn’t get to you.”

I am moved by how much this memory parallels my own journey toward God. My whole life, I considered myself to be a Christian. I just had no idea what being a Christian really meant. I stumbled through my life in panic and despair. I always believed in God. I just never considered that God believed in me. I may have been out of the will of God but I know now that I was never out of his sight.

Maybe being found means realizing that you were never really lost at all.

“There is an endless demand for people to speak, There is a limited supply of intelligent things to say.”

Jon Meacham