Winter

I wish you would leave.

I can stand you no more. 

Your icy embrace

freezes me to the core.

You’re so harsh and bitter,

so dark and so damp,

I want some sunshine.

I’m tired of this lamp.

Your breath makes me shiver.

Oh please won’t you leave.

It’s been so long since I’ve felt

a warm gentle breeze.

So gray and so gloomy,

it’s all so depressing,

your grip is too tight and

I fear it’s not lessening.

Your reigns’ never-ending,

at least it seems so.

I beg you, please winter

just get up and go.

The Power of Love and Music

Les Miserables

We went to see the theater production at the Cadilac Palace Theater downtown a month ago and we both loved it. Amazing music, production and story. I cried alot during the 2nd half, but that’s to be expected. 

It is such a beautiful story with so much depth. I saw some parallels watching it that made me extremely thankful for God’s grace, mercy and love. The law condemns, nothing more. The law without grace is why Romans 6:23 says “the wages of sin is death.” We deserve death according to “the law”, God’s standard of holiness. But unlike Javier who did not understand that God could change hearts and allow someone to become righteous through Jesus’ sacrifice, God imparts his grace and mercy on us because of his love. He gives us a chance to escape the punishment we deserve. How amazing is His agape love! Truly “we love, because he first loved us.”