jesus
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Our westernized understanding of “calling” is just so… it just misses the mark. “Oh, so-and-so is called! The Spirit is on them!” “Yeah I was called to preach as a teenager, and I ran from it for years!” This is how “calling” is typically referred to in church atmospheres. Calling, as the term is usually
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“All the days of his vow of separation, no razor shall touch his head. Until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the Lord, he shall be holy. He shall let the locks of his hair of his head grow long.” -Numbers 6:5 I’m reading the book of Numbers, and I’ve come
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Since being in church since the third day of my life (legit), I’ve heard about God’s love a lot. Yet still, it is one of the hardest things for my heart to accept. Intellectually, I get it. God loves us, always has, always will. He sent Jesus for our sins so we could be reconciled
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I brought my sadness before the altar in a golden plate. “It’s not much of an offering” I thought to myself, but it was a burden that was becoming too difficult to bear. I had hoped he would receive it. I looked down at my sandaled feet as I walked along the long marble corridor,
Paper Altars 