Food for thought from Disputations:
It's kind of strange, isn't it, how a familiar passage doesn't become dull so much as silent. They don't tell you what you already know; they simply don't tell you anything at all. And of course there are passages that are silent from first reading on.
And then... pop!
This caught my eye because the process of coming to terms with "Footprints in the Sand" happened to me too. For years I was somewhat ashamed of my thunderstruckness on my first reading, because after I discovered how ubiquitous it is on cheap "inspirational" plaques and samplers I started to regard it as treacle.
Which, of course, it is, compared to Scripture. But then, so is a lot of stuff.
Hat tip: Emily at After Abortion.
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