Month: April 2021

This morning I was reading the first chapter of Paul’s letter to the Colossians, and I was struck by verses 3-6A, which come under the heading “Thanksgiving and prayer.” Paul says:: “We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all God’s people- the faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven and about which you have already heard in the true message of the gospel that has come to you. I noticed the references to faith, hope and love, and this struck a cord as it reminded me of a much more well-known passage of scripture. In 1Corrinthians 13 – the famous love chapter, Paul writes: “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” (1Corrinthians 13: 13.)
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As I look back on my childhood, I realise I spent a lot of it wishing my life away and looking ahead to the day when I would finally be “A grown-up.” I would often seek to clarify from my parents exactly when that big day would come. Would it be when I was sixteen? Sixteen seemed awfully big. Yet, it was at the age of eighteen that my brother, older than me by 11 years, was presented with several boxes containing ornamental keys, which were meant to signify maturity. Older people in my life, like my grandmother, maintained that in their day, you weren’t an adult until you were 21. So had my brother had his keys 3 years too early?
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