“Sometimes, like now, Olive had a sense of just how desperately hard every person in the world was working to get what they needed. For most, it was a sense of safety, in the sea of terror that life increasingly became. People thought love would do it, and maybe it did. But even if, thinking of the smoking Ann, it took three different kids with three different fathers, it was never enough, was it?”
(from Elizabeth Strout’s 2008 Pulitzer Prize winning novel Olive Kitteridge
, page 211)
But there is another way.
“In you, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame! In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me, and save me! Be to me a rock of refuge, to which I may continually come; you have given the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.”
(Psalm 71:1-3)
To understand these two worlds and to bring them together is why I preach.
Chris in NM
Excellent point, Randy. And when I have the pleasure of hearing you preach 9either in person or online) that is what I take away. Hope your lord’s Day is a restful one!