Sarah and I took a walk in the woods near our apartment tonight … and saw a coyote. It spotted us immediately, considered us, then slinked off into the woods. I barely had time to get my camera out and snap this picture as it made its getaway. At first, we thought maybe it was just a dog – but its appearance, behavior, and tracks certainly confirm that it was a coyote.
A partial repost from a year ago. I love this phrase so much I just wanted to promulgate it some more:
In France, when Easter is celebrated, there is a common phrase that is proclaimed in cathedrals, shared on sidewalks, spraypainted on walls and plastered on streetlights.
l’amour de Dieu est folie!
The love of God is foolish!
What a great phrase. Why don’t we have anything like it here?
Now, we know God is infinitely wise and omnipotent. It’s a bit odd to call him foolish, isn’t it? It’s simply foolish because we can’t possibly fathom or understand God’s love for us. We are broken, sinful creatures, yet God loves us. Magnificently. Spectacularly. Undeservedly. And I can think of no better time to proclaim the glory of God’s foolish love for his creation than on Easter, the day of Christ’s resurrection and victory over death.
1 Corinthians says it better than I ever could.
“For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written,
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
- 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 (ESV)
Happy Easter!
April 1. Cleaned the grill today (which was quite a process) so I could make this delicious steak. I got the meat from the farm and used a spice mix Sarah made the other night with various kinds of peppercorn, fennel and coriander.
March 31. These bunnies have been appearing around the apartment every night, but are quite elusive. I’ve been trying to get a picture of one for a while, and this is the best I could manage.
March 30. Really? An emergency exit?
