Thursday, May 20, 2021
Green and Snow
You Never Know What God Has for Us
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Nehemiah 9:5
Then the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, ‘Stand up and bless the Lord your God from everlasting to everlasting. Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.’
Ephesians 5:19
Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, singing and making melody to the Lord in your hearts.
Words of Grace For Today
Singing seems to be in the passages for now, and on our lips. Why not?
Two days ago the green of spring had sprung . The grass was growing wildly, trees were budding fully, and the wild rose and raspberry so abundant in this area had started to throw their leaves outward.
Then the usual of spring in Alberta fell from the sky: snow, heavy, wet and grand covered the ground and green with inches of white on top that grass and all those buds.
The return of snow and cold puts the increase of pollen and the beastly bugs on a hold and/or delay for a few days or, if we are lucky, a week or two. There’s always an up side. Even when things are so terrible they cannot get worse: the only way to go is up!
When we recognize for the million-times-millionth time how gracious God is to us, though we certainly do not deserve any of it, we have all the reasons we need to sing. We can sing almost any song, the old songs, the new songs, and even all the off-the-wall songs we can find or make up, just as long as they help us tell once again the old, old story of Jesus and his love.
The melody of telling Jesus’ story resonates with the harmonies of the universe
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for God created it so.
So let us sing
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even as the snow falls on the greening of spring, let us sing
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for God created us so.
So … sing, baby, sing.