“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
FREDERICK BUECHNER
MEMORY RESIDUE
Memory Residue. It’s like déja vu except you know for certain that it happened because it’s etched into the very core of who you are. It’s the remembering, and the trying to forget. It is, however, more than what I can, or can’t, remember. It’s a dive inward: partly scared of what I might find, but mostly just turning the wheels of my heart. It’s chasing after the wind and coming to figure out that the Creator of the wind is the one that I’ve been after all along.
With all that said…it’s a blog.
Memory Residue is my blog.
Day 6: A Joy That’s Stronger
Listen: http://joelbidderman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/At-the-Foot-of-the-Cross-HI.wav Consider: Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne [...]
Day 5: Oh Friend of Mine
Listen: http://joelbidderman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/At-the-Foot-of-the-Cross-HI.wav Consider: When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners. Now, most people would not be willing to die for an upright person, though someone might perhaps be willing to die for a person who is especially good. But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. And since we have been made right [...]
Day 4: Broken and Weak
Listen: http://joelbidderman.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/At-the-Foot-of-the-Cross-HI.wav Consider: I don't know who originally said, "The ground is level at the foot of the cross" - maybe it was Billy Graham, or someone. But I've found this to be true. In 1 John 1:5-10 it says: This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk [...]