A song in my heart...

My most recent FO. I'm thrilled with it! Click to make it a bit bigger.

I woke up today with a song solidly established in my mind. I felt like I'd been singing the first line in my sleep for hours before I woke. It was a precious gift from God and my heart has been lightened all day for it. This one had a special impact in a number of ways. One, that it is not a song I've known all my life, but one I've only heard a few times, I think. Two, I am ever seeking to truly grasp His love. The song and the line that was in my head is "'How Deep the Father's Love for Us'... how vast beyond all measure." My mind wouldn't bring up the words deep and vast for me, so it replaced them with others, but the meaning was certainly plain.

What a blessing! God is so good! I'm putting the lyrics below and hope there aren't any copyright issues with posting them. My post isn't looking as it should when I hit preview, so just in case, I'm going to star the beginning of each verse.

How Deep The Father's Love For Us; lyrics

*How deep the fathers love for us

How vast beyond all measure

That He should give his only son

To make a wretch His treasure

*How great the pain of searing loss

The Father turns His face away

As wounds which mar the Chosen One

Bring many sons to glory

*Behold the Man upon the cross

My sin upon His shoulder

Ashamed I hear my mocking voice

Call out amoung the scoffers

*It was my sin that held Him there

Until it was accomplished

His dying breath has brought me life

I know that it is finished

*I will not boast in anything

No gifts no power no wisdom

But I will boast in Jesus Christ

His death and resurrection

*Why should I gain from His reward

I cannot give an answer

But this I know with all my heart

His wounds have paid my ransom

© 1995 Kingsway's Thankyou Music

Serious blog neglect

Gratuitous shot of Spring Dogwood

I haven't kept up with this very well! I just keep adding more and more things to keep up with online. On ShoutLife I have friends who I value greatly, so I do my best to keep up with them. On Elann chat, I'll comment some, but I don't say all that much. I've got to check Facebook at least semi-frequently, so I don't miss things. I have a long list of blogs that I at least scan through on my Google reader. I always feel like I'm forgetting something, or someone, and now I had to go and join Ravelry!! I'm pretty sure there are other things I'm forgetting too... like two yahoo groups that I moderate, though they're not exactly in need of much. I should be saying more though, at least on the family list.

Ravelry! What a site for yarnaholics! You have to be addicted to (or at least very fond of) yarn to appreciate it really. I had intended to wait till it was open to the public before joining, but that was taking a very long time. Folks over on Elann have been talking about it since at least last summer. I kept looking at their waiting list for "beta testers," shaking my head at the length of the list (many thousands) and thinking I'd just wait some more. On March 21st they hit 100,000 users! They're well over that now and still adding 800 to 1000 a day. See a bit of the progression here; http://blog.ravelry.com/2008/03/25/one-hundred-thousand/ Finally when I saw that the wait would only be around a week, I caved in and joined the list. I got my invite on the 6th and headed off to join up.

Even after starting to write this, I ended up setting it aside for over a week, because of other distractions. I wish I were disciplined enough to habitually write notes daily and to blog at least weekly. I know my daily notes would be pretty dry much of the time, but maybe they would add up to something more. I've neglected almost everything online this last week though... some weeks are like that. Many of my thoughts and prayers have been focused on my cousin's husband who was severely burned, then died, over last weekend. Still now a lot of the same for the grieving family. It's all made me consider once again just what kind of things we can do that are of eternal significance. Material things cannot be taken with us when we go. Love - compassion, kindness, all that comes from a loving heart, does I think go with us when we go. Jesus is eternal and His light shining through us is also eternal. Praise God for all He is, His mercy, His love, His grace!!!