We have had the Lords Day!

Several years ago Steven Curtis Chapman recorded this song. It’s a prayer, really—one that resonates within my soul. I listen to it often. I sing it as best I can. Most of all, I make it my own constant prayer.

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird always comes in near the top of any survey of favorite books ever read, including my own. So it was no wonder that I chose it for study for one of my classes this term. The parable of the Good Samaritan, and Martin Luther jnr's famous speech are additonal readings, along with some Australian peotry that exposes the Australian experience of raciam.

Gene Getz wrote in The Measure of a Man: 

My children are all adults, but I’ll never forget overhearing my four- and five-year-old daughters having an animated discussion in the living room. The youngest suddenly had a burst of insight and said to the oldest, “Hey, Renee, God is our heavenly daddy.” The oldest, who has always been philosophical, wasn’t quite sure how she felt about that comment and so the discussion continued. “But He is,” Robyn insisted. “He’s our heavenly daddy.”

 

Frankly, I was startled. It suddenly dawned on me that their image of God was their image of me. What an awesome thought! Needless to say, right there and then I made a deeper commitment to exemplify Jesus Christ in order to help my children develop a correct perspective intellectually and emotionally regarding their heavenly Father.