Looking up, still
This week brings no relief of relentless reminders that we are living in a fallen world. Our son's illness continues to wreak havoc on his brain. Beyond a miracle, treatment resistant schizophrenia is a progressive disease. Mystifying, stubborn and cruel. And if the illness isn't sad enough, add fallen people who try to create and maintain a system of care for the most difficult to treat and well, you get the messy picture. It isn't pretty. But today, instead of letting this fallen world reality consume my heart and emotions, I am looking up with help from God and His Word. I'm letting this reminder press me into looking to an even greater reality. Right there in that garden where the biggest blunder of all time occurred. The Fall (Genesis 3). Adam and Eve disobey God and sin and death enter this place just as surely as God said it would. Fallen. Sinful. Death destined people. Yet...a plan is about to be introduced. An incomprehensible plan of redemption. &q
