Sitting Under the Kudzu Vine

So the LORD God appointed a plant and it grew up over Jonah to be a shade over his head.

Category: Thinking About God

A sense of Place / C. S.Lewis / Eugene Peterson / Grace / Holy Desire / Spiritual Disciplines / Thinking About God

A Stubborn Sense of Place: Hebrews 11: 8-16

I imagine that Abraham thought of home, not to go back there, but because it was the only measure he had in his experience from which he could imagine the future. That’s the way we are. We only have our past and it is in terms of the best of those times that we think about the future. How else can we think of heaven except in terms of the past?