Wake up you sleepyhead sun
Rise from your eastern bed
Stretch and yawn, now it’s time to shine
And chase our shadows west
Burn in your pathway across the sky
And brighten up our stories
Wake the continents and oceans to
Another blessed morning.
You are the gift, you are the proof
The Lord looks down and warms my roof
You are the light, you are the sign
That I am loved and life is mine
[chris
rice]
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So... the trip was awesome... I will try to do a day by day recap soon... ish. But for now. todayborday was awesome... we made it back to po-ville at around 7 AM yesterday. Mom and Ben are at bible school for the week so its just me and dad. Anyways, needless to say, dad and I were tired from the all nighter drive back. So we slept till 2 or so... then hung around till 4 then made our way to Cranberry so dad could get his prescription and whatnot... Then we went ober to Chic Fil A and I had a tasty chicken sandwich. Then we went to Dick's and Best Buy and Barnes and Noble just to walk around. It was really nice just hanging with dad...
I bought the other Darkness book by Peretti and hope to have them both read soon (hah) and a Robert Frost poetry book which is pretty cool as well... Then we decided to pick up dads Harley that he left at Chris' house during the trip and take a ride around mercer... we did so and dad left me and the Neon here.
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....which brings me do this morning
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Last night I had a great talk with Mallory about a lot of things... and I told her that I have been in a slump where I have been kinda far from God. Being on the trip made it hard to have a good daily devotion schedule and we missed church 2 Sundays in a row (we did go to church on Wednesday) but I think that may have been the first time I missed 2 in a row like that. It was weird... just not being to a church for a few weeks... but all of that kinda made me feel far from God so I was talking to Mallwy about it and she told me to get back to business (she is awesome.) so I planned to wake up, finish the Jones' schedule and head off to Dunkin Donuts for breakfast and a time of reading the Biblio.
let me tell you. it was awesome. The morning was beautiful and it was so nice being able to drive around with the windows down in my neon. I made it to DD's and had a half of a bagel, some pulpless orange juice (which despite my affinity for pulp, was actually rather refreshing) and a small coffee (which was really good I must say)
I opened my Bible to psalms... I usually do that just to warm up a little and to read something lite and enjoyable before I get into the juicy stuff. I read an awesome chapter... which was chapter 42. Its the one that talks about the deer panting for water the same way that we should pant for God. It hit me pretty hardly because I had been ignoring God for a few weeks... so that was awesome... then I went back to Hebrews which has been a massively awesome read lately... I was in Chapter 3 and it talks about Jesus being better than Moses. People were thinking that the OT guys were better then Jesus but the writer of Hebrews says that the builder is better than the building, and God is the builder of everything. I thought that was just so cool..
God is the builder of
everything. People. Plants. The ocean. The sky. yep, everything.
it was just a cool realization... especially in the context... the people didn't realize that Jesus is God. Jesus is the builder of everything.
Way awesome.
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So I am hoping that this day just keeps getting better. Man I love waking up to
see the morning.
