Opinion

The love the Heavenly Father has for His children is a love that conquers all things. This love is seen and identified on the cross where the Father poured out His wrath upon His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ. It is a sacrificial love that can only be seen as the Holy Spirit makes it manifest to us. It is a love that is truly incomprehensible. This eternal love ascends with us to the highest heavens when it seems as if we are staring upon the face of God. It is in that moment when our hearts are enraptured in overwhelming joy. It is like a well spring of water that is bursting forth in all of its glory. It is here we build in our heart a memorial stone of recollection that we can always go back to and remember, crying out as Jacob, “Surely the Lord is in this place.”

I wrote this several years ago for my daughter. Christian leadership is different from all other kinds, so I have hope that my words of advice to her are instructive for others. Here are my thoughts, written in 2016:

I have always had a very small circle of friends; one might say microscopic! I have very stringent requirements to be considered a friend. It’s basically two rules, a friend must be loyal and a friend must invest as much time into the friendship as I do.