Inspirations

  53 And he took it down and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid Him in a tomb cut into the rock, where no one had ever lain.   Luke 23:53 It’s Friday.   Not just any Friday, but Good Friday.   The day on which we acknowledge the crucifixion of our Lord.   Today, I had the privilege of attending a Good Friday Service at a local church.   It consisted of scripture reading depicting different parts of the crucifixion interspersed with prayers and a song intermixed tying them all together.   They finished with them laying him in the borrowed tomb.   As I left, I turned to my daughter who had accompanied me and said “They left him in the grave.   It doesn’t feel right.”      As I said that, I was stopped short.   All week as I have thought about the crucifixion, I have been thinking of those who loved Jesus and how they must have felt.    They had watched the soldiers taunt, spit on, beat and fina...

For the next few days I am going to write about some things that we say, but that God will not or does not say. Whoops!    It's that word you use when you realize you’ve made a mistake.    It’s that moment when you realize you put in a cup and not a ½ cup of sugar.     It’s when you forgot to the car payment was due, yesterday.    Maybe you forgot a birthday.    Whoops.    There are other times when that is the last thing we want to hear.     On the operating table hearing whoops is not cool.     In an airplane, I never want the pilot to say, “Yikes!”    When I’m driving on an interstate and the next exit is 80 miles away,  I don’t want to hear, “Oh no.”   But the ugly truth is that we are human.  and even the best of us are prone to mistakes.    We can’t help it.    I...