Heart to Heart: Meeting With God in the Lord's Prayer | Chapter Excerpts
From "Hallowed Be Thy Name"
There have been times in my life when everything seemed empty. Relationships had gone off course; church was a white-washed tomb; everything I did was a filthy rag. In those times God has reminded me to look to Him, and I have found that I have a reason to sing. I will sing for the majesty of the LORD. I watch relationships ruined by selfishness and think that love is a myth, and then I think on Jesus and know that it is not—He loves me. He loves you. He loves, more purely and truly than any one of us could possibly imagine. I look on the mountains and see the scars left by human beings who can't help tainting everything they touch, and think that beauty isn't real. And then I think on the Creator and remember that the Heart of Beauty still beats. He is still creating.
I have hope, I have joy. He is changing me into His image. I am moving "from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." One day I will be holy, as He is holy.
As I get my eyes upward, past the darkness to the God who still reigns on high, His character begins to work in my life and counteract the darkness. And so I have witnessed holiness here on earth. In the love between a man and woman at the altar. In my baby sister's face as she sleeps. In the movements of a dancer and the strains of a song. In grief and in comfort. The sacred has come into the common things of life, and the words of Isaiah are true for me today: "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined."
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