May 18, 2010
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Home...
I'm back from Georgia. Restful: no. Good: yes.
In John 16, Jesus talks about the Holy Spirit guiding us into all truth. There have been days in my life where a verse I've read or a song I've heard will just ring in my ears. Sometimes it's something I've heard recently, but more often than not, it's something from some time ago. The last 24 hours have been pretty intense, but there's a line of an old hymn that popped into my head yesterday evening/this morning, and the only part of the tune I could remember was...
"and now I am on my way home."
As I tried to identify that song, I finally found it somewhere in my memory banks. That's the last line of the first verse of a song whose chorus is:
"Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days, all the days of my life."
I've got things to do today. I need to email youth leaders questions for tomorrow night. I need to write my newsletter article for the church... I need to eat dinner. I don't have time today to blog about my trip, but
that line and that chorus have rung out to me in a pretty mighty way. A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about asking God for brokenness, and I feel like one of the biggest ways we recieve that is by viewing our broken selves through the lens of His goodness, and graciousness, and mercifulness. I thank God that He's allowed me more of that perspective and that those things have followed, are following, and will continue to follow me all the days, all the days of my life.More to come...
