What about us? Where does our shame go? Where does our trauma find its resting place? Is it in the promise of another child who was born to die so that all of us Bathshebas and all of us Davids might live?
TLIC DAILY. DAY 348. DECEMBER 14: WE LOVE.
From God’s perfect love may we see love perfected in us. May we love sacrificially without fear. May we love humbly yet boldly. May we love because we are loved. May we “to live is Christ.”
An Ancestral Advent Day 13: The Son of David.
No, being God’s adopted sons and daughters doesn’t make life any less difficult. Yes, we will suffer with Christ as Paul says in Romans 8. But we don’t fall back into fear. We move forward as sons.
TLIC DAILY. DAY 347. DECEMBER 13: OUGHT TO LOVE.
“To live is Christ” is to know you are loved by Love. And then it is to love. To love one another freely and fully as those in whom God’s love is being perfected IN US as we learn more and more each day to trust his love FOR US.
An Ancestral Advent Day 12: The Son of Jesse.
I can honestly say that truth of a future peace in the presence of the Branch is what gets me through every day, not just the holidays, and especially the dark days. What about you?
TLIC DAILY. DAY 346. DECEMBER 12: OUR HEART.
Go live your life boldly before him. Because “to live is Christ.”
To Live is Christ 