I go to cemeteries to pray sometimes now that it’s nice out. Here’s a short list of the things I saw and thought about today:

1. A huge stone crucifix. That was God hanging there, being punished, alone, for us.

2. The infant section.

3. A giant building dedicated to the Masons and their dead.

4. A deer, 10 feet away from me. We stared at each other for a minute.

5. Tombstones with one spouse’s birth and death date, and the other spouse's birth date only. What are those last few years like?

6. Freshly dug graves with no grass on them yet.

7. Two women sitting in a car crying uncontrollably.

Honestly, I left the place almost crying out for joy that I’m not deceived, that all my trust isn’t in myself or in superstition but in Jesus, that God got me, that God is good and just in each person’s life, and that I and the brothers and sisters I love will be with the Lord in heaven.