Yesterday I went to visit the pastor friends I mentioned.  When we set this up we were to go to McDonalds (his favorite place due to its coffee and constant visitors).  However, when I got to their home he had just returned from a luncheon a friend had taken him to.  They had forgotten our lunch date but still knew I was coming.  I hadn’t eaten either breakfast or lunch so I was hungry!  Funny how things come up like this.  I was there a couple hours, drank a couple cups of coffee, ate a couple cookies and never thought about food.  I told him no less than 10 times where I live, how many miles from his house to mine, who my kids are, what I do for a living and so much more.  In between I told a couple jokes which he caught immediately and then forgot.  He knows me but doesn’t know much about me except we love each other.  That is one memory that goes deeply into our soul and the deteriorating, earthly body hasn’t destroyed.

I’m reading Revelation now in the Bible.  This morning it said that Christ was like a lion and a lamb: Rev. 5:5&6.  It was so good for me to read this and ponder it.  I have been awakening so much of late to the lion of my own dad, I hadn’t recognized how his lion nature influenced the lion reference for God/Jesus.  The ugliness of strength that is used to hurt and destroy instead of protect and love.  Also, the lamb it references I had only seen as fragile and weak instead of seeing it as trusting, intimate and loving.  I could see this so much more clearly today.

God needs us to be strong and intimately loving like the lion and the lamb.  I can be this too without guilt when I do it as a new creation.  These are good lessons to learn and I’m so grateful God is a good, patient teacher as well as everything else He is.