Good Word of the Day

A good word. One that gives you hope, inspiration, meaning...substance. This is something that, in a perfect world, I'd like to give you every day, but the world's not perfect and neither am I. Hopefully, I can give you more of this though. If not for you, for me. I need a good word. I think most of us do.

Today's is something I read in Tim Keller's "Encounters with Jesus" this morning, and it really hit home:

"...if there were a God, we would not relate to him the way a person on the first story of a house relates to a person on the second story. The ground-floor resident can go up the steps to find the second-floor resident. But God is not someone who merely lives in the sky--he is the creator of the whole universe, earth and sky and time and space, and of us. Our relationship to God, then, is more like Shakespeare's relationship to Hamlet. How much will Hamlet know about Shakespeare? Only what Shakespeare writes about himself into the play. Hamlet will never be able to find out anything about his author any other way. In the same way...we can't find God just by going to higher altitudes. We'll only know God if God has written something about himself into our life, into our world. And he has."