Redeemable Qualities (Day 1 from Cleansing Thoughts)
FOR SEVERAL DAYS, I HAVE been pondering on the lessons I learned from one of the most enjoyable books I have ever read, Hinds’ Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurnard. It is a wonderfully written allegory about a woman named Much-Afraid and her journey to the High Places, where perfect love cast out all fear. I found myself on every page and surprisingly began to understand my own Christian walk with new insight. There was one part of special interest to me concerning the lessons discovered in the alphabet of love. On her journey, she encounters two flowers of great importance. The first growing in the desert was named Acceptance-with-Joy, and the second was found growing on a cliff out of a crevice in the rock named Bearing-the-Cost. Both flowers accepted their fate in life with grace, determined to let love prevail in their lives. All of us have had things happen in our lives that have resulted in our having to bear the cost fro...