Open your mouth and sing out your song. Life is short as the day is long :).

Excuse me

---- Is it really Wednesday?

Have you ever read this entirely (Psalm 119)? It will change your life.

"You who mourn will be comforted. You who hunger will hunger no more. Oh the last shall be first, of this I am sure. You who weep now will laugh again. Oh, you lonely, be lonely no more. Yes, the last will be first, of this I am sure. I don't know why the innocent fall while the monsters stand. I don't know why the little ones thirst, but I know the last shall be first. I know the last shall be first."

-Brooke Fraser, Flags

I know for sure that I am not the last. No amount of mourning, poverty, loneliness, or struggle of my own will account for the 23 years of this relatively exquisite life that God has given to me to live. I could have been given a life as any other... in any other state, in any other country, poverty level, clean water, no water, forced into war, sold into slavery or trafficked for sex. "I... don't know why our words are so proud, yet their promise so thin..." There are more reasons than ever to leave my own life, pride, and materialistic tendencies behind to be generous and to 'excel' in it as Paul has asked us to- it's more than my church, it's more than about how generous we have previously been to missions, or youth, but it is about how we continue to give, and give until it hurts for those who are hurting (and those people may be right across the street, across an ocean, in our own families, our church buildings and church families, or our own homes) "while our lives blow about like flags in the wind."

I wish words could give sound to the "oos" of this song.

Listen to Brooke Fraser's album/song "Flags" here.

Lindsay