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writerdad
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| Posted 8/23/2001 12:28 PM (GMT -6) |   | "better is one day in your courts, then a thousand elsewhere..."
We were singing that song last Sunday in church and I started thinking about how the earth is, in a great sense, the court of God. Then I started thinking about the wonder of life, how in the midst of the roughness of life there is such great wonder, great joy. Like yesterday...
...around five o'clock in the PM, after I have dinner going, I'll go into the living room and turn on the most bouncin' song I can think of (yesterday was "All Star" by Smashmouth). And my kids and I will dance around like idiots until they are screaming in laughter and I'm just totally exhausted and have spun around so much I think I'm going to throw up. There is this intense godliness in that for me. My children no nothing of suffering, nothing of the pain in world. Pure joy is such a wonder, a free laugh that is pure in its essense. Like
...my son just started first grade and as we were walking home the other day, I asked him how he liked it. And he said
"First grade has changed my life."
He said it with a truth that I don't think I have ever heard before. Have I ever said such a thing about God? I am nowhere close to him. Like
...after my wife and I had sweated through the birth of our first daughter, after 28 hours of her not coming and after a C section to get her out, after all that, my wife, after sleeping off the dope, holds our daughter, starts crying and says: "how can anyone see the birth of a child and not believe in God?"
There is a strong meanness to this world, something that takes great pain to each of us. But in the midst of that, there is the strong pulling of God, but we have to want to see them. Like
me, breaking down in the middle of my niece's funeral last year, stoping several times in tears, yet going on in the message that I don't understand God, yet I understand that God loves me. I do not remember what I said that day, but many people did and were touched. My niece was 30 and left too young girls. Yet the wonder was still there.
Sometimes I walk outside my home and look at the sky and wonder if God is truly alive. Other times, I wonder how he cannot be. Life is rich, full of the wonder of what is outside of me. I think I miss most of it, but I am grateful to God that I can see any of it.
"To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour."
William Blake"
Harold
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Tom
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| Posted 8/23/2001 7:16 PM (GMT -6) | | Amen to THAT Harold!
I've done the living room dance-a-thon with the kids too! Still do it with my two teen-age girls. If you're planning to continue with it, you may want to take a few dancing classes or some aerobics classes! 
Tom
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Springs
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| Posted 8/27/2001 7:09 PM (GMT -6) | | WriterDad,
Thanks for this great post. Sorry I didn't let you know sooner. I have been trying to catch up on everything. (It's not working)
But it was such a blessing to read when I first came upon it, that I had to come back and say thanks. Thanks too for your responses on the 'In praise of...' thread.
I think the reason there were no other responses on there for awhile was because you had expressed 'our' thoughts so well right off the bat.
God bless you and yours
Springs
ps I danced on Saturday mornings with my kids. What gifts music and children are!
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Triskal
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| Posted 8/27/2001 7:21 PM (GMT -6) | | When I have the privaledge of teaching preschoolers at the YMCA on friday mornings we usually put on a Raffi tape at the very end and dance around to it. That time is usually the highlight of the week for me.
Springs said, "What gifts music and children are!"
Amen!!
In His Grip,
Matt
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writerdad
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| Posted 8/28/2001 5:55 AM (GMT -6) | | I have every "Raffi" tape there is (I think) but my kids prefer the "Veggie Tunes." Their favorite, though, is this Cajun (yes, Cajun!) instrumental that Target puts out. Anything that makes them move...that's what they like. I am glad you guys liked it...it seems to me that much of enjoyment of life comes from recognition of the joys God has placed before us...
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Triskal
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| Posted 8/28/2001 6:09 AM (GMT -6) | | quote:
I have every "Raffi" tape there is (I think) but my kids prefer the "Veggie Tunes." Their favorite, though, is this Cajun (yes, Cajun!) instrumental that Target puts out. Anything that makes them move...that's what they like. I am glad you guys liked it...it seems to me that much of enjoyment of life comes from recognition of the joys God has placed before us...
Moby has some pretty catchy rythm and blues songs to dance to. Have you ever heard any of his songs?
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writerdad
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| Posted 8/28/2001 6:18 PM (GMT -6) | | I have only heard his song "natural blues," which I love. I just haven't gotten around to picking up any of his stuff...
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Triskal
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| Posted 8/28/2001 7:13 PM (GMT -6) | | quote:
I have only heard his song "natural blues," which I love. I just haven't gotten around to picking up any of his stuff...
His latest CD "Play" has got most of his really good stuff on it. I love every song that CD and play it all the time. It's got a lot of different styles on it. Some are more pop sounding, others have more of a techno beat, and the majority of them are rythm and blues. Natural blues is a really good song. Also check out the songs "Run on" and "Honey". Both of those are just as good, if not better.
In His Grip,
Matt
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