Some Lyrics
Here's some lyrics to a song I finished this last week. It will be a song on our church's CD we're working on now. Enjoy.
Verse 1
The Lord is good and His mercy endures
Forever in the heavens and the earth
The Lord is good and His mercy reaches me
The Lord is good and His love is shining forth
Brighter than the sun and moon and stars
The love of God shines bright for all to see
Chorus
Jesus Christ, Your sacrifice
Covers me, I am redeemed
I am not what I used to be
I live my life, to glorify
All you are with all of me
You are my God, You are my King
Verse 2
The Lord is good and His faithfulness remains
A perfect love that will never away
Always and forever You’re the same
The Lord is good He is worthy of all praise
I will Him up above all names
The Lord is good He worthy of my praise
Picture
Seven or eight years ago I was in a really bad car accident. It was pretty impactful on my life. Those few seconds shaped my personality, my physical condition, my theology, my finances, my relationships and my perspective. To remember that and mark that time when God helped me I keep a picture of me taken the morning after the accident. My face was all scared and bandaged and stitched. My eyes were swolen. My hair all over the place. I was wearing some clothes that they had in the lost and found at the hospital. I needed a cane to move around. Anyways, I keep this picture in my Bible so that I'm reminded of God's provision. Kind of how Samuel made a pile of rocks when God helped the Israelites. People walked by and remembered why the pile of rocks was there and praised God for His help. I do that with a picture.
Tonight I was pretty sad when I walked into the living room and saw that the picture must have falled out of my Bible and Harley (our dog) had ripped it up. I put him to bed early.
Do you have anything like that? Something that you keep to remind you of a time or trial in you life that God helped you through?
Another weird thing about Canadia
Canadian TV is weird. I think anything goes. And they're proud of it. A commercial for the network Showcase says, "Every day countless people push their personal boundaries. Showcase.ca pays tribute with a series of video clips of everyday viewers pushing their own personal boundaries as a result of tuning in." And then it shows housewives growing marijuana, married couples cheating on each other, homosexual lifestyles...you get the picture. That kind of blatent promotion of immorality is really the normal now. I do think there is something to be done about it as a Christian. Not sit around and talk about how we can't believe it and how wrong those people are. Not talk about how we're glad that we aren't like that. And not plan for a more powerful service next Sunday morning. I believe that Jesus called us to be the salt of the earth. A salt that preserves. So our presence in a messed up world is crucial. We need to be there, be real, and live for God. We need to love and not run or shut out. I say this because my first reaction is to push it aside. But I need to engage culture. How does one do that? What are some small, everyday things that engage culture in the truth of Jesus?
Canadia
I had a totally crazy experience. I went up to Vancouver, BC for a couple days with my good friend Kite. I love that city. It's cool how all the windows are the same color in all those sky scrapers. And the weather was perfect. It was like 25 the whole time. I don't know what that is in American, but it felt great. So we were walking around at night and like every downtown of a large city there were some people out asking for some $. But this was weird. One lady was deaf and mute. She had a sign that asked for some help. When we walked by she handed us a little piece of paper that said she needed money. I handed the paper back and said no...and shook my head. Then she gave it back and looked frustrated with the whole thing. I waved my hands and shook my head "no." I tried to just smile and keep on walking, but she grabbed my arm. I looked at her somewhat confused at that point as she made some noise and then punched me in the arm. I didn't expect that. It didn't really hurt but the fact that she punched me for not giving her $ blew me away. I was a little mad, but also felt really bad. I wonder what kind of day she had that got her to that point? Should I have given her a couple bucks then? I didn't. Thinking about it now I wish I would have, but then again, she did punch me and I don't usually pay people for that. What would you have done?
God, do you have a condo I could buy....for cheap?
The past months I've been looking and getting a feel for Condos in our area. Our lease is up in July for our apartment so Dawn and I thought it would be a good time to get a condo and stop renting. We found a place we really loved, put an offer in (over asking price) and were totally outbid. So we detatched any emotions we already invested in that place (you do invest emotions when you're talking a couple hundred thousand bucks) and moved them to another place. But once again we were outbid. It was pretty intense for me. I had never thought of the psyche of purchasing a home. It can be an emotional rollercoster. Hopes, dreams, timing, waiting, suspense, rejoicing, disapointment, bitterness, trust, frustration....
But I'm learning to trust God some more everyday.
