1. God graciously bursts our foolish plots by coming our way, into our very flesh, and being God with us.
  2. Jesus loves His church. He cleans her up. He takes her as His own. And He leads her.
  3. If this opening verse offers to us both door and doorkeeper, then the doorkeeper stands with the door held securely shut.
  4. Every age gives cause for both hopefulness and despair.
  5. Those clinging to God in Christ can be assured that it’s all clean.
  6. Beware the lament, dear readers, that is not soothed with the good-goods of Jesus.
  7. I’m still laughing now as hard as I laughed back then. And the salve that he gave me in that moment still works some strange magic on me to this day.