Conversations with God

Hello God, it’s me, Mara:

You know, Lord, it’s been a long time ago, but way back when, ‘we’ viewed a beautiful painting done by William Hollman Hunt titled “The Light of the World.” It pictures Jesus standing outside a cottage door, which is overgrown with dead weeds. The door has no latch. In one hand Jesus holds a lantern, bright with light. The other hand is knocking on the door. The painting clearly shows that we must answer the knock and open the door before we can know the abundance of God’s love.

When we were kids in Sunday School, we learned that Jesus’s life, death and resurrection t...