GOD, brilliant Lord, yours is a household name.
Nursing infants gurgle choruses about you;
toddlers shout the songs
That drown out enemy talk,
and silence atheist babble.
I look up at your macro-skies, dark and enormous,
your handmade sky-jewelry,
Moon and stars mounted in their settings.
Then I look at my micro-self and wonder,
Why do you bother with us?
Why take a second look our way?
Yet we’ve so narrowly missed being gods,
bright with Eden’s dawn light.
You put us in charge of your handcrafted world,
repeated to us your Genesis-charge.
Had a great day today. Did stuff that needed to be done, grabbed coffee with a good friend at Java, and had a great evening at youth group. Someone from the group invited a person from school, and they came and were a great addition to our evening, and they were excited about some of the stuff we have the rest of this month, so I know they’ll be coming back, probably bringing his brother [who showed up at the very end, with his $100 Hummer remote control car] as well. I drove them home after youth group, and was just really excited about having some new faces there.
So, I was already in a good mood driving home when I saw how beautiful the sky was tonight. What is it about the night sky, especially here in Idaho, that makes you feel God’s presence and love in a very real, but really weird way. I liked God tonight.
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It always amazes me, when I get caught up in lessons and administrations and my life gets crazy God will give me the wonderful gift of a new face. There isn’t anything that makes me smile more than a student who is eager to find out more about God. Thanks for reminding me.
I wanted to take a picture of the moon tonight but my camera’s batteries died while I was taking a picture of our youth caroling so I couldn’t. I was very happy to see it up on your blog. Funny that it looked the same there as it did here tonight (same cloud cover and everything) (Saskatchewan, Canada)!
Beautiful sky!!!!! That is one of the many reasons I miss Idaho while stuck here in Atlanta. We never have such beautiful skies here. It pretty much always stays gray and dreary.