Last week as we were running errands the Christian radio station played one of those 60 sec minisermons. The person was speaking on 1 John 4 and read the passage which states, “This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.”
Son: " Mom, why did she say we don’t love God?"
Me: “They were saying that we didn’t love God first, but that God loved us and then we loved him.
Last night I got a chocolate craving. I didn’t feel like doing a ton of work to feed this craving so I thought I’d bake some No Bake Cookies. Growing up this was often the cure for a chocolate craving with minimal effort. When I opened my cabinet to get out the sugar I noticed a sticky brown residue on the container.
"Uh-oh" I thought.
Upon further investigation I found molasses covering the entire shelf, the box of aluminum foil, the pancake box, the corn muffin box and still no molasses jar.
Our good friend Bob posted this on his blog and I wanted to link to it in my Weekend Thought. Since his blog is for invited readers only, he gave me permission to post it on my blog and link to it that way. I was struck by the beauty of his poem.
Catechism 714
Of all things
she wanted to know
the colors of heaven
Not the sky