Mornings
This morning I had my devotional time on the patio, as I usually do, and right as I got to the middle of the Parable of the Sower in the eighth chapter of Luke, I looked up at a spectacular cloud formation illuminated by the just-rising sun. It was as if God had woven the most beautiful golden wool fleece in the sky. There was also a hummingbird fluttering frequently against this backdrop -- just an amazing testament to God's masterful creative work He shares with us. I just felt like sharing that, it was quite the experience while spending time in His word and in prayer, but I also share it because right when it all lit up like that, I was reading that middle part of the parable, between Jesus' sharing it and His explaining it. Do you know what that transition part is? It is His reminding them of the Old Testament passage in the sixth chapter of Isaiah, when Isaiah was commissioned and asked God what he was supposed to tell his listeners. God told him to tell them they could s...