A prayer to love when the world wants us to hate, written by Meg Boucker, read by

Leah Martin.

And as he was saying these things in his defense,

Festus said with a loud voice,

Paul, you are out of your mind,

your great learning is driving you out of your mind. Your great learning is driving you out of your mind.

Acts 2624.

A bookworm's delight is to disappear into Wonderland.

Imagination blooms in the pages of books.

When my daughter was a baby, I could barely wait to pass on my love for worn-out pages and musty library smells. We read piles of books and

imagined great adventures. Always appreciative of the imaginative, both of my daughters loved Alice in Wonderland. Their favorite

quote is, Alice do you think I've gone round the bend?

Alice's father, I'm afraid so. You're mad. Bonkers. Off your head, but I'll tell you a secret.

All of the best people are.

Aside from all of the wonderful quips and puns in Alice in Wonderland, my daughter's love that being

mad is a good thing. I think they can relate. The hurt that they both witness and experience as the school grades get higher is confusing to them.

Unnecessary. They feel a little mad-hatterish. I think the Apostle Paul could relate. The voice, paraphrase of

Acts 2624 says, You've gone crazy, Paul. You've read one book too many and have gone insane. Christianity does not flow

with the world's stream. We often forget the Apostles underwent extreme scrutiny for believing in Christ. But Paul didn't

waver under the pressure. How could he, after all he had seen? Perhaps the power of experiencing Christ personally was enough for him to

embrace the notion of madness. It's easy to want to retreat from the madness to get comfortable in our spot and sit back in the pocket we know best.

But we can't.

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