I held her sleeping on my chest and she was so light. Breathing together, but she was inhaling helium and floating, merely hinting at resting her weight upon me. This is what Wylie is like. Her life is light and free.
Wylie expresses broader realities so often. This verse has been on my mind lately. "For the joy set before Him, Christ endured the cross." I have heard it many times. The joy is us. The joy set before Christ is people.
That's hard for me to believe. We do not seem like a prize. We are full of selfishness, greed, violence, apathy, immorality, and you know I could easily continue the list for days. Now, I know that this darkness, this sin is not a problem for Christ. He has a mysterious and powerful ability to cleanse, to forgive, and to transform people.
I can know those real and true aspects of life, but do I believe? This is where Wylie helps me yet again. Does God see me like I see her? All gift? A delight? A "get-to-be-with-her" kind of a person? Wylie has not a single known defect, fault, or deficit.
Maybe because God is able to see us through Jesus, the One who covers us, He sees us differently, our true and restored and full selves. We are all gift. The parts of us that are not a gift are passing away. What we really are is becoming more and more real. Light and free.
