Thursday, December 18, 2008

Invisible God
























I give you praise, O Great Invisible God,
for the moon in the space of a dark night,
for the smile on a face in the sunlight.

I give you praise, O Great Invisible God,
for the sound of the storm on the window,
for the morning adorned with a new snow,
for the tears on the face of the old man
made clean by the grace of the good Lamb.

And oh, I long to see your face,
Invisible, Invisible God.
All the works that you have made
are clearly seen and plain as day,
so mighty and tender.
O Lord, let me remember
that I see you everywhere,
Invisible God,

in the seed that descends to the old earth
and arises again with a new birth;
in the sinner who sinks in the river
and emerges again, delivered.

And oh, I long to see your face,
Invisible, Invisible God.
All the works that you have made
are clearly seen and plain as day,
so mighty and tender.
O Lord, let me remember,
your power eternal,
your nature divine.
All creation tells the tale
that Love is real and so alive.

I feel you, I hear you,
Great God Unseen I see you
in the long, cold death that the winter brings
and the sweet resurrection spring.



-andrew peterson

.wow. those words are good.

Sweet Chin Music



Whoa, so I can't believe I have already (almost) been home for a week. Time just goes way too fast. Wow. So Christmas is next week? Ahh. I need a vacation... or a chance to make time stop for a few weeks.

Anyways so here are the exhilarating things I have been doing in the past week...

Saturday- went to Chris' house alll day, which was enjoyable. Dad/Ben/Chris hunted all morning and I didn't have much in the area of warm clothing so I stayed in the house for most of the time. It was a nice chilly day though, I enjoyed that much. Then we went to the outlets, well just Ben and I. and we had a great time... as we ate our Charley' Grilled Subs, we saw Pastor and Candy, which was great.

Sunday was church and the usual... sunday night we did Christmas Caroling at the Ellwood City Hospital. At one point, we saw this little old man creep out into the hallway to hear us sing. His face lit up and he began to sing with us as loud as he could. He told us that he sings with his church choir and he sang with us for probably 15 minutes. He was so happy to get to sing Christmas songs for a few minutes, I really think we brightened his evening. I know it really made me smile to see him smile...

Monday was work and... what did we do that night? I can't remember. Oh Sunday night, we watched Bucket List, which is currently one of my favorite movies. Anyways After work I think... OH YEAH I went to Chris' house and spent the night. After working a long boring Tuesday doing cleaning at Jones' and stuff, we came home... and Ben was at his friends house so I just hung out with Dad and Mom

YESTERDAY (was awesome.) Aaron kniess and I and Scott cumberland went to Southpointe and watched the Penguins practice. We got Crosby's autograph and we got to see him up close for a bit... the others werent so nice though. It really was great... well I think that brings me up to last night... my hands are tired from typing so I will finish later.

BUT I got most of my Christmas shopping done, so that is so exciting. I love Christmas.

I love Christmas.