Safe in the Shepherd's Arms

I have decided to start reading Safe in the Shepherd's Arms as a daily devotion.  It was a Christmas gift for my dad about 6 years ago.  (Has it really been that long?!)  I gave it to him with a string attached:  I would come and read it to him.  That gift was the result of a discussion I had with an awesome friend of mine who shared some priceless words of advice with me.  (She had lost her dad, too.)  And, that gift resulted in some very precious moments and insight with my dad.

This is an excerpt from that book:

You don't need to carry the burden of a lesser god . . . a god on a shelf, a god in a box, or a god in a bottle.  No, you need a God who can place 11 billion stars in our galaxy and 100 billion galaxies in the universe.  You need a God who can shape two fists of flesh into 75 to 100 billion nerve cells, each with as many as 10,000  connections to other nerve cells, place it in a skull, and call it a brain.  And you need a God who, while so mindnumbingly mighty, can come in the soft of night and touch you with the tenderness of an April snow.