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Joyful-Joyful // Song for a Sunday

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Laura Hackett from the JOY album.

 

 

 

It’s fine.  Nobody is looking.  Get up and dance a little!  I’ve got the J O Y !

A Hymn of Faith from Habakkuk 3

17 Though the fig tree may not blossom,

Nor fruit be on the vines;

Though the labor of the olive may fail,

And the fields yield no food;

Though the flock may be cut off from the fold,

And there be no herd in the stalls—

18 Yet I will rejoice {I will JOY} in the Lord,

I will joy in the God of my salvation.

19 The Lord God is my strength;

He will make my feet like deer’s feet,

And He will make me walk on my high hills.

To the Chief Musician. With my stringed instruments.

 

Curious Recommendations

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Youtube baffles.

Based, I guess, on the songs I select to watch and listen to on YouTube.com, they ever-so-kindly make “recommendations” for me – videos they think I will like based on things I have viewed.

I get having them suggest “La Vie en Rose” by Edith Piaff or Dido’s “Here with Me” from the Love Actually soundtrack.  I am appreciative of the new Patridge Family stuff they make me aware of and am only somewhat baffled by the constant re-occurence of the Eagles’ “One of These Nights,” since I do indeed adore The Eagles (but there are other songs by them, right??).

But why on earth do they keep suggesting things like the WWE’s Smackdown Theme Song or mini episodes of “Different Strokes”?  Why?  Or anything having to do with Monster Trucks?  That I do not get.  Huh-uh.  No.  What the heck?  That’s not me.

But, wow o wow.  They suggested this and I am in love with it. 

This is Corrine Bailey Rae.  She is British.  She is soulful.  She plays a beautiful guitar.  She’s Billie Holiday, but so modern.  She is breezy.  She is deep and she communicates the song so beautifully.  Great video.  Haunting melody.  Loving it. 

And when I told Tredessa?  She reminded me that she told me I would love her about a year ago when she gave me a song for my Itunes, “Put Your Records On,” and Tredessa, as always, was so right!

Corrine Bailey Ray, I’d Do it All Again, official video

Love Hurts…like a stabbing wound, even

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Rocky’s Adventure

Rocky went camping with his brother-in-law a few weeks ago (Jovan’s sister, Jessica’s husband, Matt).  After dark, by the light of the fire, he waxed romantic for Jovan, who was home with Averi.  So he started carving a stick to say, “I love Jovan.”  Thoughtful, yes?

However, as he was nearing its’ completion, just as he bore into the wood, which by now carried the sentiment, “I love Jova…” on the downward stroke of the “A,” he stabbed himself.  He stabbed himself really deeply.

Getting stabbed

There was blood, lots of blood.  Thankfully, he admitted what happened to Matt instead of hiding it pridefully, which he was tempted to do and they were able to take care of it until he could get back to safety and a hospital.  We can laugh about it now, but I saw the poor guy barely able to move the next day and it made me wince.

I think, though, for the sake of the romantic points it must surely have gotten him, it was probably worth it.

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Video

The video is a song he put together for the church staff, who love teasing him about it,  about his stabbing adventure.  He’s just silly.  And sweet.  I love the kid (and his girls).

photos by Ellie, The Photo Card Chef; video by Tredessa

Sunday Song ~ Beautiful News!

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Beautiful News

Joy is the theme of my song,
And the beat of my heart,
And that joy is found in You.
For You showed the power of Your cross
And your great saving love,
And my soul woke up to You.
I heard Your beautiful news;
Grace so amazing, so true…

Shout it out, let the people sing
Something so powerful should shake the whole wide world.
Make it loud, make it louder still;
Saviour we´re singing now to celebrate Your beautiful news.

There´s a God who came down to save
Showed the world His amazing grace
There´s a God who came down to save
And He calls your name

Bible reference: John 3:16
Matt Redman ©2006 Thankyou Music (administered worldwide by EMI CMG Publishing, excluding the UK which is administered by Kingswaysongs.com)

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Sunday Song “Fire Fall Down”

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I love this song.  I have loved it forever and the “fire fall down” part is a major life-song for all my grandbabies.  They sing their lungs out on it!  Rocky and my kiddos led it again this morning and, wow – the words…


 

FIRE FALL DOWN

Cause I know… that you’re alive
You came to fix… my broken life
And I’ll sing… to glorify
Your Holy Name… Jesus Christ

You bought my life
With the blood that you shed on the cross when you died
For the sins of men and you let out a cry
Crucified now alive… in me

These hands are yours
Teach them to serve as you please and I’ll reach out
Desperate to see all the greatness of God
May my soul rest assured… in you

I’ll never be the same
No I’ll never be the same

Cause I know… that you’re alive
You came to fix… my broken life
And I’ll sing… to glorify
Your Holy Name… Jesus Christ

You changed it all
You broke down the wall when I spoke and confessed
In you I am blessed
Now I walk in the light
In victorious sight… of you

Fire, fall down!  Fire, fall down on us we pray, as we seek You…

Show me Your heart

Show me Your ways

Show me Your glory!

This is the song I am singing today!…Jeanie

NOTE TO SELF: These hands are Yours, teach them to serve as You please…

Carried to the Table

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Leeland was, I am told,  17 years old when he wrote this song. I wonder how he already understood the beauty of being the made the guest of honor in a place you don’t even feel you belong?

“You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over.”  Psalm 23. 5 NKJV

I know what it is to have been carried.  I have been carried.

 

NOTE:  The actual recording is one of my favorite songs.  I could only find the recording with pictures.  It does show up as a link when the song is through if you’re interested in a less busy rendition.

The Father’s House

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Laura Rhinehart does amazing open, prophetic worship.  This song is a welcome right into the presence of the Lord:

“I can hear the Father saying, ‘My house is your house, My table is your table…’.” 

The video image is just the CD cover.  Ignore.  Turn up your speakers and hear the heart of the Father towards you.

“God, it seems you have been our home forever…”  Psalm 90.1