August 25 Krum Star Article
"The Language of Love"
In May, I traveled to Sydney,
Australia to enjoy the pleasures of holding my first grandchild,
Joshua, born somewhat premature 10 days before my arrival.
My daughter-in-law is from Colombia and her mother, Josefina,
had arrived just before the baby’s birth with plans
to stay for a couple of months and help.
Josefina and I first met at
Jonathan’s and Adriana’s wedding in 2003 and
had not seen each other since. Although our children are
both fully bi-lingual, their respective mothers don’t
share the same talents. Essentially, Josefina and I could
communicate by gestures and with about 30 words that we
both understood along with a few we made up.
Mornings were given over to
baby and mother care, laundry, cooking, errands and the
several hours I needed to stay current with projects here
in the States using their Internet connection. By mid-afternoon,
with mother and baby napping, Josefina and I would each
grab a book and walk together to one of the gorgeous beaches
not far from their residence in Sydney. For an hour or
two, we would walk and sit and read and refresh our souls,
thoroughly enjoying each other’s company.
Somehow, without words, Josefina
and I formed a deep and loving friendship. We seemed to
transcend our normal ways of communicating and spoke to
each other more on the level of kindred spirits than anything
else. Yet even in that friendship, much of our lives remain
mysteries to the other. We don’t have the common
language to tell our stories and reveal those secrets.
That friendship gives insight
into our relationship with God. Although God may know
us thoroughly, much about God will always remain mysterious
to us. There is too much to comprehend, and we don’t
know the language of infinite love and infinite grace.
We can only see a glimpse, as though a veil occasionally
parts and our eyes are opened to deep riches of the God-loved
life.
This coming Sunday, August
27, we will look more fully into what I call "The
Great Reversal," the power of the coming of Jesus
to bring profound transformation and find the power to
be able to more access those places of infinite love and
grace.
Come, join us as we as a community
of faith engage in the demanding and revealing journey,
deeper into the mystery of God.
