Monday, August 30, 2004

Celebrate Life!

Saturday: Late night movie with family, hanging out at Seattle's Best with Han and Anjo and Sam, sipping Frafuccino's and mocha cafe's, pigging out on belgian waffles and blueberry muffins and other such delights, watching a local band perform at the open promenade. Yes, let's celebrate life!

Sunday: Surprisingly early at church at 8:09 a.m., happy morning choir practice open forum at the professional couple's Victory class provided a healthy exhange of no-nonsense ideas. Some shared bits of sadness but with hope, some shared joys unspeakable, some simply made their presence known, by smiling, by shaking hands, by laughing. It all makes a lot of sense to me, these things we do to keep aflame with the beauty of ourselves, in the wonderful bosom of God, nourished by His Word. Such fellowship, such sharing, such love! My heart is overwhelmed as I take on at all these and I wanted to break out in a song!

Sometimes life seems like words and music, that can't quite become a song. So we cry inside, and we try again and wonder what could be wrong. But when we turn to the Lord at the end of ourselves, like we've done a time or two before, we'll find His truth is the same as it's always been, we never will need more. He's all we need for our every need, we never need to be alone. Still, He'll let us go if we choose to, to live life on our own. Then the only good that will ever be said, of the pain we find ourselves in, they are places to gain, the wisdom to say, "I'll never leave Him again."

It's not in trying but in trusting. It's not in running but in resting. It's not in wondering but in praying that we find the strength of the Lord!

BING L. HERNANDO slept soundly at 8/30/2004 08:20:00 AM