Here’s a magnificent quote found in a book sent to us by Joy’s sister who has been totally paralyzed for 20 years. It echoes Paul’s grand assertion in Romans 8 that nothing can separate us from God’s love.
I may fall flat on my face; I may fail until I feel old and beaten and done in. Yet your good¬ness and love is changeless. All the music may go out of my life, my private world may shatter to dust. Even so, you hold me in the palm of your steady hand. No turn in the affairs of my fractured life can baffle you. Satan with all his braggadocio cannot distract you. Nothing can separate me from your measureless love-pain can’t, disappointment can’t, anguish can’t. Yesterday, today, tomorrow can’t. The loss of my dearest love can’t. Death can’t, life can’t. Riots, wars, insanity, non-identity, hunger, neurosis, disease-none of these things, nor all of them heaped together can budge the fact that I am dearly loved, completely forgiven and forever free through Jesus Christ, your beloved Son.”
Ruth Calkins. quoted in David Roper,
Psalm. 23: The Song Of A Passionate Heart.
Discovery House Books. p. 146
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