“God made them male and female—two words not crafted by a person, or group, or society, or culture, or America for that matter, but used by God to describe what He’d made and exactly what He’d designed them to be. Out of the same God came two different bodies. And after creating them, lastly, after all that had been made before, God looked at them and everything else and called it and them good. The plants? Good. The stars? Good. The fish’s fins? Good. What about Adam and Eve? What about their eyes, and how their mind made them see the same thing through a different lens? Or their hands, and how Adam’s were wide enough to hold a hoof or two and Eve’s small enough to fit a bird in it. Or Eve’s voice and how it sounded like morning and his, sounding like he’d just spit out a mountain. Or his brow bone, strong as a fist. Her face, soft as an amen.”
JHP is an unashamed poet. She encouraged me spiritually and relationally through the power of words... I’m not often moved by someone’s interpretation of Jesus, but she writes as if I’m her confidante and it prostrated me before Him. For instance, I told a friend I was weary of being a Christian lately, and JHP put it into prose: “My back, showing signs of the wear and tear from the cross it was carrying day to day, was weary.” Wow. That had me crying at 2 a.m. She’s got grit; and this hotbed topic was handled with grace, truth, and love. Gay Girl, Good God (2018), Jackie Hill Perry
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“Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend money for what is not bread, and your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in abundance.” - Isaiah 55:1-2
“Ho! - this is the gospel note; a short, significant appeal, urging you to be wise enough to attend to your own interests. Oh, the condescension of God! That he should, as it were, become a beggar to his own creature, and stoop from the magnificence of his glory to cry, ‘Ho!’ to foolish and ungrateful men!” - Charles Spurgeon |
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