John 3:29-33 (from John the Baptist) “Therefore, I am filled with joy at his success. He must become greater and greater, and I must become less and less. He has come from above and is greater than anyone else. We are of the earth, and we speak of earthly things, but he has come from heaven and is greater than anyone else. He testifies about what he has seen and heard, but how few believe what He tells them! Anyone who accepts his testimony can affirm that God is true.”

Another beautiful, truth-soaked excerpt from George MacDonald’s, The Laird’s Inheritance. He consistently points me home, and I am so grateful.

“Cosmo, my son, the material part of us ought to keep growing gradually thinner, to let the soul out when its time comes, and the soul ought to keep growing bigger and stronger every day until it finally bursts the body as a growing nut does its shell. If instead the body grows thicker and thicker, lessening the room within, it squeezes the life out of the soul, and when such a man’s body dies, his soul is found a shriveled thing, too poor to be a comfort to itself or to anybody else.”

I don’t doubt for one moment that God can breathe Life into them ‘dry bones’, but why must we throw away Life for such a lesser existence?