Handfuls of Doxology

I just got home from doing some work at our church.   Each Saturday night we have to do some things to get ready for the early worship service.   But tonight was especially chaotic, as most of the last few weekends this time of year have been.   With Sunday School Christmas parties and so many other things going on, we have basically just been dodging each other to make sure that everything is done and nobody gets hurt!   With the exception of Trevor tripping in the parking lot and falling sternum first onto a concrete parking stop, I think we have done alright.   (He seems to be ok, by the way.) Tonight, there was a Christmas party in the fellowship hall and children’s play practice in the auditorium.   I, because of my many talents, well mainly because I showed up, was asked to help with the production by running the sound and the lights for the play.   So I got a script, made my notes and marked my cues and tried to keep up.   You know how these plays are!   I was so distract

“Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His Holy Name!” -I will praise Him.  My entire heart praises Him!  Every thing I have, every thing I am, every thing I will ever be, Praise Him!  He is a whole other level of Holy!   “Forget not all of His benefits” -He has done so much.  I can’t name them all, but I will never forget a single one of them.  He has chiseled His blessings on the heart He turned from stone to flesh.   “Who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases.” -All of the blackness and wickedness is so far gone, it is as if it never existed.  The sickness that had condemned me to die has been cut out like a cancer and nothing but health and life remain.   “Who redeems your life from the pit” -I have been rescued from the hand of God.  My entrapment has been filled with a solid foundation and I have been rerouted from my path of destruction.   “Who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy.” -My life was once defined b

Tonight I find myself in a familiar place, with the opportunity to pause and clear my head by getting some of these cluttered ramblings out and share them with whoever, in hopes that somebody might find some help in what I have been blessed to have settled in my heart. The last three years have culminated into the last three months for my family. How? Glad you asked. In the last three years I was brought from a self righteous high horse of hidden sin and inner emptiness to the brink of loosing everything. The brink was not without it's tangible losses though. I lost my ministry, my integrity, many friends, a lot of time and some things that I can never get back. But through that I found a new side of the very nature of God that I would have otherwise never known. Through brokenness and real deal repentance I experienced the depth of His grace through forgiveness and restoration beyond salvation. I saw how far God goes to both chasten and bring back one of His own. I was forced