Pastor Tom's Journal

 

This contains my favorite verse from Cohen: "Ring the bell that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."

At 5 AM Tuesday, June1

Warm your heart by the fire of this song. Then, take the word of encouragement and admonition And flesh it out today!!! Heal the world!!!!!!

Grace Has Brought Me Safe Thus Far (Psalm 40:2)  He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.   I tread cautiously on the subject of safety, for safety is an ultimate value, not a temporal one. It is often misunderstood as the absence of danger or trouble or even risk. That is not the characteristic of the Christian life. Rather, Christianity promises ultimate safety and the safety of ultimate things. He has brought us, by His grace, through dangers, toils, and snares. These we have experienced fully and yet, safely, unscathed spiritually by external circumstances and with the confidence that His grace will lead us home to eternal safety.   (Ezekiel 34:27)  And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of t