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BY STEVE DUNN
Head down, plowing forward. That's the way that I live too much of the time. A "To Do" list that should be renamed "The Tip of the Ice Berg" list. Meals on the run. Sleep that is interrupted too early by the arrival of morning. Too busy to see the small stuff and sweating the small stuff I see.
These days our media and politics seem to be oozing with the dark side. Civility and community get sacrificed on the twin altars of political correctness and political intransigence. Inconvenient truth is dismissed as fake news. The economy is a harsh master. The suicide rate in America is rising.
But God is at work revealing something beautiful, refreshing and uplifting. It is readily observed at any moment of the day and at most places on the planet. It is the revelation God paints in creation. And when we stop the racing and shut out the shouting, we just might see it.
What do we see? Something that is greater than us--the hand of our gracious God: our Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer. Makes think of the words of that magnificent hymn penned by Folliot S> Pierpont:
1. For the beauty of the earth,
for the glory of the skies,
for the love which from our birth
over and around us lies;
Lord of all, to thee we raise
this our hymn of grateful praise.
2. For the beauty of each hour
of the day and of the night,
hill and vale, and tree and flower,
sun and moon, and stars of light;
Lord of all, to thee we raise
this our hymn of grateful praise.
3. For the joy of ear and eye,
for the heart and mind's delight,
for the mystic harmony,
linking sense to sound and sight;
Lord of all, to thee we raise
this our hymn of grateful praise.
4. For the joy of human love,
brother, sister, parent, child,
friends on earth and friends above,
for all gentle thoughts and mild;
Lord of all, to thee we raise
this our hymn of grateful praise.
5. For thy church, that evermore
lifteth holy hands above,
offering up on every shore
her pure sacrifice of love;
Lord of all, to thee we raise
this our hymn of grateful praise.
6. For thyself, best Gift Divine,
to the world so freely given,
for that great, great love of thine,
peace on earth, and joy in heaven:
Lord of all, to thee we raise
this our hymn of grateful praise.
Maybe it's time to stop and what God has made.
These days our media and politics seem to be oozing with the dark side. Civility and community get sacrificed on the twin altars of political correctness and political intransigence. Inconvenient truth is dismissed as fake news. The economy is a harsh master. The suicide rate in America is rising.
But God is at work revealing something beautiful, refreshing and uplifting. It is readily observed at any moment of the day and at most places on the planet. It is the revelation God paints in creation. And when we stop the racing and shut out the shouting, we just might see it.
What do we see? Something that is greater than us--the hand of our gracious God: our Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer. Makes think of the words of that magnificent hymn penned by Folliot S> Pierpont:
1. For the beauty of the earth,
for the glory of the skies,
for the love which from our birth
over and around us lies;
Lord of all, to thee we raise
this our hymn of grateful praise.
2. For the beauty of each hour
of the day and of the night,
hill and vale, and tree and flower,
sun and moon, and stars of light;
Lord of all, to thee we raise
this our hymn of grateful praise.
3. For the joy of ear and eye,
for the heart and mind's delight,
for the mystic harmony,
linking sense to sound and sight;
Lord of all, to thee we raise
this our hymn of grateful praise.
4. For the joy of human love,
brother, sister, parent, child,
friends on earth and friends above,
for all gentle thoughts and mild;
Lord of all, to thee we raise
this our hymn of grateful praise.
5. For thy church, that evermore
lifteth holy hands above,
offering up on every shore
her pure sacrifice of love;
Lord of all, to thee we raise
this our hymn of grateful praise.
6. For thyself, best Gift Divine,
to the world so freely given,
for that great, great love of thine,
peace on earth, and joy in heaven:
Lord of all, to thee we raise
this our hymn of grateful praise.
Maybe it's time to stop and what God has made.
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