Three Years

It's been a long time since I've written here. And so much has happened since that I feel several decades removed from who I was the last time I wrote here.

I'm listening to a song right now. It's by Laura Hackett and Cory Asbury from the International House of Prayer in Kansas City. It's called He's Alive. And in the midst of the darkest time of my adult life, it causes a deep well of living joy to spring up in me. Even when my eyes are covered, and I am smothered in overwhelming darkness, I am reminded that life dwells in me. The refrain at the beginning of the song is this: "The chains of sin can't hold me down. Even death itself can't keep me in the ground." No matter what else appears true, those words ring in the depths of my soul. "There is no power in heaven or hell that can keep me from the love of the Father on his throne."

He's alive in my being. He's alive in my body. He's alive in my soul. He's not dead. "He's surely alive. He's living on the inside, roaring like a lion." I'm alive because He's alive, and I will never die.

I encourage you to listen to this song and let the words soak into you.