graham cooke

it is in the valley
that our lives are truly adjusted to
the pleasure of god.
on the mountain
we have sovereign encounters
with majesty and beauty,
and then we must return to the scene of the devastation
and begin to plant what god has sown into us.
this is where we encounter the incomparable delight of the comforter,
who steps into our devastation with his own precious touch
and renovates us from the inside out.