Rock from Which You Were Hewn

We think of rocks as unchangeable, hard as rock. But when Jesus met the young fisherman Simon and named him Ce'phas (Peter), meaning "e;stone,"e; he was seeing the process Peter would endure to become a beautiful living stone of the Lord's temple, made from the dust of the earth. Rocks form in the heart of life's action, during collisions of unseen forces, along zones where ideals grind unseen, de...