Crucified Hearts

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I Know This

I know the least about what matters most.

But I have known enough to want more, to want it always, to live and move and have my being in the presence of God.

Immanuel, “God with us”, this is the thing. Nothing matters more and nothing is missed more than the presence of God in our life.

Remarkably so, in a way that words alone will never comprehend, our God, our Triune God, has promised to make his home with us, not only in some heaven hereafter, but right now. And we need him right now, our light and our warmth in a chaotic world of darkness, where the love of so many has frozen so hard.

It has never been in his heart for us to live as orphans; that suffering has been our choice, not His.

Should you doubt my theology and my longing, that being intimately connected with Him is the thing that matters most, I invite you to read the words of his Son, who Himself is the express image of God and all that he means to be to us.

One of the best places to do that is John 14.

Let’s go home.

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Hi…Thanks for checking in. I live in rural Kentucky, moving from Louisville in 2016. I have a small degree in pastoral theology, studying and pastoring in the U.K., from 2000 to 2009, then in the U.S. until 2012. I am now a part-time driver for the local Amish community. I’m making an honest effort to write more, to write out some thoughts on the spiritual life, occasional comment on current events (I’m apolitical, so not much there), and with some emphasis on my life in recovery from addiction. And then there are those marriages and divorces, not for the sake of raking dirt, but for support for others and perhaps a little for myself. In living, like gardening, I tend to follow the seasons of life.

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A Christian, thinking, vlogging, and writing online. I live elsewhere as well. I follow the theology of the cross in the faith and practice of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Formerly a pastor in Europe and America, now living semi-retired in Kentucky (U.S.), driving for the Amish and in-home carer.

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