![]() After Stacy told me about his story, I kept seeing it in my mind. Stacy says this story is how he imagines hell, a place where a person is completely alone, without others and without God. In the story the astronaut is working on a space station when an accident takes place, and he is cast into space to orbit the earth, to spend the rest of his life circling the globe. In his story the astronaut is wearing a suit that keeps him alive by recycling his fluids. One of my new housemates, Stacy, wants to write a story about an astronaut. ― Donald Miller, quote from Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality ![]() And together, we will learn to love, and perhaps then, and only then, understand this gravity that drew Him, unto us.” I suppose the clock itself will wear thin its time before I am ended at this altar of dying and dying again. ![]() I am giving myself to you, and tomorrow I will do it again. I will stop expecting your love, demanding you love, trading for your love, gaming for your love. I will love you like God, because of God, mighted by the power of God. And I will do this to my death, and to death it may bring me. ![]() ![]() I will discover what I can discover and though you remain a mystery, save God's own knowledge, what I disclose of you I will keep in the warmest chamber of my heart, the very chamber where God has stowed Himself in me. I will love you, as sure as He has loved me. “ I will give you this, my love, and I will not bargain or barter any longer. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |