Jonah-esque
I've been listening to Taylor Leonhart's lovely new album, Hold Still , on repeat. (You should definitely avail yourself of the pleasure!) Belly of a Whale particularly captured my heart. ...but You cannot resist Your tendency to save me from myself... ...but You cannot resist Your habit of forgetting how I fail... These lines struck me as a gentler, less cynically ironic rendition of some of my favorite words that the prophet Jonah spoke: "I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to become angry, rich in faithful love, and One who relents from sending disaster." They also reminded me of the words that we pray each week in my church: "You are the same Lord whose character is always to have mercy." What a remarkable truth. There are times when, like Jonah, I find myself wishing that God wasn't quite so merciful, because it is not my nature to always have mercy. It's my character to run out of patience and graciousness, to wa