Thursday, October 22, 2009

A Severe Mercy

A Severe Mercy is making a severe impression on me.  It might be one of my favorite books ever. 
The narrator writes these lines after making a choice to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior:

"Between the probable and proved there yawns
A gap.  Afraid to jump, we stand absurd, 
Then we see behind us sink the ground and, worse,
Our very standpoint crumbling.  Desperate dawns
Our only hope:  to leap into the Word
That opens up the shuttered universe." 


Ahhhh......so good.