We Need A Savior

Last week Isaiah sent me a wonderful palm branch he made out of construction paper at Cubbies. On it was a very sweet note that made me cry. It just doesn't get any easier living so far away from each other.

I hung it in my kitchen right above Taryn's Picasso cow art project. :-) Every time I see it I smile....and think of Isaiah.

This week we had a flu bug hit us hard. I am now behind on everything, but most of all in preparing my heart for Easter. Today Isaiah's palm leaf made me think of Palm Sunday so I started some reading on it. I thot this was an interesting perspective:

"The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never become so good that the majority will never desire the truth." Soren Kierkegaard

On Palm Sunday, the Truth rode into Jerusalem on a donkey’s back. Although the crowds cheered the Truth, beneath the surface a conflict raged. The majority did not want the Truth that day, nor have they wanted the Truth on any day since that day. ~ Dr. R Pritchard

A sad thot - but what blessed me was Jesus example. To ponder that Truth went humbly yet confidently into their world - right among them - risking everything, because Truth in love brought their only hope.

Truth is not always winsome. It confronts where it enters, not necessarily by what it does but by the nature of what it is. But Truth must go there.

It takes courage to bring Truth into the center of our world today. It is still not welcomed but often confronted and rejected. But Truth must go there.

Truth is desperately needed because we all desperately need a Savior.