Coming Untrue

Spring always seems to be such a busy time of year for me.  I can find myself lying awake at night wondering how in the world I'm going to get everything done.  I'm sure it is like this for many other people, but I think lots of the world says "the holidays" or "December" or Christmas is their busiest time of year. I totally get that.  December is filled to overflowing with activities, preparations, family, shopping, parties and hopefully, time to celebrate the birth of our Savior.   Sometimes, the world seems to overlook Easter a bit--at least in comparison to Christmas/the holidays.  In a strange way, I'm thankful for this commercial passover.  For better or worse, it seems to produce less worldly pressure on our celebration.  

What the world down plays, I'm hoping to emphasize.  I'm hoping to capitalize on the world's failure to manufacture more commercial business for Easter.  I'm hoping to use this "extra" time as more preparation time. To prepare my heart, and as best I can, the heart of my children, to celebrate the greatest miracle of this world.  The greatest, most horrific, most painful, most gruesome sacrifice made for the most undeserving.   And to prayerfully discern how in the world Jason and I can begin to communicate that gift to Emma and Robert.   For if leaving a Godly heritage on this earth is one of our chief responsibilities, this season carries tremendous weight and responsibility in teaching and instruction. 

As I journey through Lent this year, I find myself continually drawn to the Jason Gray album "Everything Sad is Coming Untrue."  So much so, that I posted the lyrics below.  It is a poetic expression of our Savior's redeeming love for His people.  It has helped me see the Gospel amidst so many seemingly devastating world events.  What if I viewed all the sad things of this world as one fantastic story of a Prince, a Lord, a Savior, coming to rescue His people.  What if each tragedy soaked in human and moral turpitude was merely to juxtapose evil against His perfect LOVE? What if all the terribleness presents an opportunity for us to experience even more of His redeeming mercy? And more still, what if HE is making all the sin, all the sadness and the devastation of this world come untrue?  

And I pinch myself.  

Because.

He is.

See, I will create 

   new heavens and a new earth. 

The former things will not be remembered, 

   nor will they come to mind.

Isaiah 65:17

All by His love for His people and Christ's sacrifice for us.

Hope you enjoy the lyrics too (and please excuse the shameless website plug in the middle).

You can buy the album here.  It is amazing in its entirety.