Oh, to rehearse! Oh, to sing!


Smile

How far are You?
How close am I?
I know Your words are true when I don’t feel them inside.
Still I believe You’ll never leave
So where are You now?

You’re all I have
You’re all I’ve known.
Your breath is breathing in my soul
Still I am gasping, aching, asking
Where are You now?

‘Cause I just want to be with You
I just want this waiting to be over
I just want to be with You
And it helps to know the Day is getting closer
But every minute takes an hour
Every inch feels like a mile
Till I won’t have to imagine
And I finally get to see You smile.
-Chris Rice

I love songs that take me soaring. And this song takes me way up.

Last night I almost hit a deer at 12:13 a.m. on the way to work. Let me explain why I’m going to work at 12:13 a.m. My brother and I run my father’s pellet mill 20 hours a day this summer. One shift runs from 5 a.m. to 3 p.m. and the other from 3 to 1. We trade shifts from week to week, and I happen to have the evening shift right now. This is a problem, though, if there is stuff happening in the evening that I want/need to be a part of (AHQ rehearsal, AHQ recording session, or some social event), but I came up with a brilliant idea (I thought so). We’ve got four hours that the mill is doing nothing, right? 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. Why not just adjust those hours to, say, 8 p.m. to midnight. That way I have four hours to hang out, and all it means is that I have to work through the night. So last night was one of those times. Jewel and Deb were over and we watched a movie and shortly after midnight I was speeding back to work when I had to swerve quickly to miss a deer.

By the way, Randy beat me yesterday. He actually played defense this time. Tough defense, too, I was having trouble penetrating. And he’s beginning to believe that I can knock down the three. He almost pulled away but I scratched and clawed and got it to 49-49, which means next basket wins. He quickly made the next basket.

Importance of context: did you know that Jesus said that he would judge no man? Yep, right there in John 8:15b… “I judge no man.” Sort or reminds me of the classic “Judge not that ye be not judged” passage.

“You’re judging me and the Bible says ‘Judge not that ye be not judged’!” Actually, the Bible tells us TO judge, righteously (John 7:24). Context, context, context. Taken in isolation, the Bible can be made to say most anything.

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