thank you; please

"Endings are for gratitude, beginnings are for faith", says John Piper.1 We have the privilege to gladly live each day in humble gratitude and courageous trust. These twin blessings rest on our Lord's unfailing character - that which we have heard from our ancestors, that we have known, and that which we look to with the eyes of our heart. Because of his deeds, we may live as very different people now. For, who is grateful? Who lives with courage? And for those who do, do they live this way because they have seen that life might be better so, or because of something they have known, from a deeper, quieter, surer and happier place? This is the gift we are given, to pass our days in thanks and trust while we are yet part of this fragmented, nasty, beautiful world that is not our home.


1 J Piper, La Vida Es Como Una Neblina (Miami: Editorial Vida, 2006), 50.