Good morning…
Last month I was joyfully reunited in Jacksonville, Florida with friends and family of Betty Skinner to honor the memory of our beloved spiritual mentor. Betty is the down to earth Christian mystic at the center of The Hidden Life Awakened by authors Dr. Cathy Snapp (in the UGA hat) and Kitty Crenshaw (pictured above Cathy).
We laughed a lot.
We cried a bit.
We even danced in the dark to fun music videos out on Kitty’s balcony overlooking the St. Johns River.
Pictured on the far left, talented pianist Dana Cunningham introduced us to a YouTube video of an expressive donkey being reunited with the little girl who raised him. I share this feel-good video with you now, a video which captures deep bonding love beyond human comprehension. “The ox [instinctively] knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s feeding trough, but Israel does not know [Me as Lord], My people do not understand” (Isaiah 1:3, NIV).
Instinctively might we begin to sense the undeniable, eternal bond established by our loving Lord as we watch the tender touch of this forty-five second video? We love because God loved us first (1 John 4:19, NOG).
…Sue…
