Thursday, September 26, 2013
http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/2013/09/25/embrace-your-otherness/?comments#comments
feeling like a 13 year old. maybe its because i never really experienced being "different" then. i always keep forgetting that this world is not my final resting place and keep on yearning for earthly things i don't have. no wonder God has chosen to withhold them from me, because i wonder what i would be if i actually got what i wanted..
'"Otherness" is a sensation not to be dulled or diminished but to be cultivated and cherished. So.. I will not pull the thorn from your flesh, not because I want to withhold comfort, but because there is no true comfort in a lie. This world is not our home. We are sojourners, travellers on our way to the only true comfort the human heart can know. I will not help you populate your life with things that lessen your grip on this reality.'
the article shows the love of a mother who allows her child to feel "otherness" so that her child may know that we don't belong here on earth. it pains her so much to see her child suffer, but she does it anyway because she knows what is reality.
so much more my heavenly Father cares for me! even when life's circumstances doesnt seem so.
avoid the aliens;
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