Me: What is all this howlin’ and yowlin’ I’m hearing.

Prodigal: Sorry, I fell into this plant.

Me: I don’t mind helping.

This is from the book Let the Journey Begin by Max Lucado

We ask for food, only to find provision already made. (How did you know I would be hungry?)

We ask for guidance, only to find answers in God’s ancient story. (How did you know what I would ask?)

God dwells in a different realm….

God’s thoughts are not our thoughts, nor are they even like ours. We aren’t even in the same neighborhood. We’re thinking, Preserve the body; he’s thinking, Save the soul. We dream of a pay raise. He dreams of raising the dead. We avoid pain and seek peace. God uses pain to bring peace. “I’m going to live before I die,” we resolve. “Die, so you can live,” he instructs. We love what rusts. He loves what endures. We rejoice at our successes. He rejoices at our confessions. We show our children the Nike star with the million-dollar smile and say, “Be like Mike.” God points to the crucified carpenter with bloody lips and a torn side and says, “Be like Christ.”

Proverbs 16:18

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org