The God this author believes in, the God of heaven and of earth, does not fix things when they break. When his creations wear out and run down, he doesn’t put them back the way they were. Whether it is a shattered heart or a ruined future, if it is given up to God, than it will not be given back. Instead he will return something new.
Then I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was, making something on the wheel. But the vessel that he was making of clay was spoiled in the hand of the potter; so he remade it into another vessel, as it pleased the potter to make.Then the word of the Lord came to me saying, ‘Can I not, O house of Israel, deal with you as this potter does?’ declares the Lord. “Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand.
Jeremiah 18
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
2 Corinthians 5
This is my hope. This is life as I have seen it. This is life as I record it here.
If Cassie Could Sing is the ongoing story of how I have chosen to keep the promises I made to my late wife. She had a life she wanted to live on this earth. Because she can’t be here to live it, I’ve decided to live it for her. Since she can’t be here to sing, I’ll be here to write the song. This space in the blog is dedicated to remembering Cassie, to sharing the process of my own grief, and to checking in as I check off the things on Cassie’s “bucket list”—in fact, making a blog is one of those things.
From Test to Testimony is the collective story that God continues to tell through the lives of others, just as I have described him to work in mine. I use this space to show the light of God’s kingdom as he’s showed it in the darkest places.
Words Like Trees is where I share my thoughts and experiences… about trees… and also about everything else. To quote a famous tree from a book written by an author named Tolkien, “[Words] like trees bear fruit in their own time and their own way…”