It took colossal time cleaning Daddy's bookshelf area; he had so much of what most people would consider clutter.
But I remember how much strength Daddy found in all the time he spent there and found it hard to dispose even extraneous things.
Wait...What's THIS? Wow!
Daddy had collected some short "thoughts" I'd e-mailed him in 2001-2003 and stapled them together into four little booklets!
Since I posted some on a blog called "Come into an MK's Kitchen", I decided I'd make them available to read in our Tengan Home Kitchen now. Here's one of the poems I sent Daddy in 2001, called "Drawing Nigh:"
When "spending time w/God" this morning,
It seemed I "spent time" looking in the mirror
And admiring the "spiritual" Christian I saw.
"What a worshipful attitude!
What spiritual thirst!
What unquestionable humility!
Now God'll HAVE to show Himself to me.
After all, doesn't it say in God's Word,
'Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to thee'"
And then it dawned on me:
God was probably sickened at the sight of the saint at the mirror,
And He was probably saying, "Hurry up and
Really look at Me;
'Spend time' with Me... That I could show Myself to you."
God never said, "Draw nigh to thy mirror."
(I just looked, and "MK Kitchen" posts don't go back earlier than 2005.)
