We're reading Beth Moore's The Beloved Disciple in the evening. I'm enjoying it tremendously and think that it's an especially good book to be reading in this Easter season.
For morning reading, in addition to Bible reading and devotional reading, we've just completed Awakening Your Sense of Wonder where one paragraph in particular zinged into my heart recently. Yes, of course, I'm sharing it!
"...pay closer attention when you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears. They are telling you something about the secret of who you are or where you're from or where you should go next."
For several years now I've been practicing thinking about any given situation in a "different way." Imagine my surprise to find that this is so eloquently expressed in the Word of God. Read this and try to imagine which camp you might fall in...
When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their vestments and with trumpets, and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with cymbals, took their places to praise the LORD, as prescribed by David king of Israel. With praise and thanksgiving they sang to the LORD:
"He is good;
his love to Israel endures forever."
And all the people gave a great shout of praise to the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid. But many of the older priests and Levites and family heads, who had seen the former temple, wept aloud when they saw the foundation of this temple being laid, while many others shouted for joy. No one could distinguish the sound of the shouts of joy from the sound of weeping, because the people made so much noise. And the sound was heard far away.
Ezra 3:10-13
Have a happy day filled with much thanksgiving and praise!
