to remember

I read Instrument of Thy Peace by Alan Paton while in Kathmandu last summer. It was beautiful. Here is some:

“Why did Jesus hold spellbound those who listened to him? It was because he showed them they were not helpless victims in the grip of fears, hates, the past, the world. They were the salt of the earth, the light of the world. He showed them a new thing—that obedience and freedom are inseparable. For where is the joy of living in a society in which all obey and none is free? Or in which all are free and none obeys? Something in them rose up to meet him; they were caught up into the bondage which is the perfect freedom; they became his servants and his freedmen; they became his followers and his disciples; in him they found meaning for their lives, and there is no freedom like the freedom of finding meaning for one’s life, of becoming the instrument of a Lord who helps us to be what we were meant to be.”

I am on my way to south carolina to live with some people who are indeed His followers and His disciples. In this next season of life i hope and pray that i will learn from them and step more fully into the life and the freedom of my Saviour.

hallelujah amen!