[Jesus] left because of you. He laid his security down with his hammer. … Since he could bear your sins more easily than he could bear the thought of your hopelessness, he chose to leave.
It wasn’t easy. Leaving the carpentry shop never has been.

— Max Lucado

On this day...

• Job 5 - 2023
• Job 4 - 2023
• For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding. - 2011
• World Visitors - 2011
• Among the oxen (like an ox I'm slow)-I see a glory in the stable grow-Which with the ox's dullness might at length-give me an ox's strength - 2011
• Among the mules(stubborn I as they)-I see my Saviour where I looked for hay-So may my beastlike folly learn at least-the patience of a beast - 2011
• Never let us forget that God expects fruit from us - 2011
• Is there anyone who has everything as he wishes? No - neither I, nor you, nor any man on earth. - 2011
• The most dangerous and unsure thing is to try to live without God. - 2011
• I love to see holy mirth; I delight to see men well feasted. I like Christmas; I wish it came six times a year - 2011