Can We See?

I hope to continue tomorrow on this....but this may be it. I am studying the parts of the face for doing better portraits. This would have made an interesting watercolor, but I do not have my paints here. Tomorrow is our meeting with Virginia's surgeon and then we fly back home. Now for my thoughts...

If Jesus is your center and Lord and you fail him, he will forgive you. Your career can’t die for your sins. You might say, “If I were a Christian I’d be going around pursued by guilt all the time!” But we all are being pursued by guilt because we must have an identity and there must be some standard to live up to by which we get that identity.

Whatever you base your life on—you have to live up to that. Jesus is the one Lord you can live for who died for you—one who breathed his last for you. Does that sound oppressive?
----from Mark Driscoll's book on Doctrine, quoting Keller.