Sunday Songs

Your Love Is Extravagant
Darrell Evans

Your love is extravagant
Your friendship so intimate
I find I’m moving to the rhythms of your grace
Your fragrance is intoxicating in our secret place

Your love is extravagant
Spread wide in the arms of Christ
Is the love that covers sin
No greater love have I ever known
You considered me a friend
capture my heart again

We Must Play

[Christine King Farris, sister of Martin Luther King Jr.] says it's important for her to push past those painful memories because she wants to humanize her younger brother. Everyone has heard about King, the civil rights icon. She wants to strip away those platitudes to reveal the playful brother she knew.

"He was normal as a person could be," she says. "I really want people to understand that. I want people not to think of him as some mythic character from out of space."

[...]

Farris says she had no inkling that her brother would become such an iconic figure. She remembers the little brother who loved playing pool, doing the jitterbug dance and telling jokes. She also recalls his nickname as a young man -- "Tweed."

"He had this tweed suit and he loved it," she says, smiling. "He would wear it so much so the boys nicknamed him Tweed."

[...]

"I thought about all that I've been through and all these memories and sometimes it gets tough," [Farris] says. "By being the lone survivor, if I don't [write this memoir], a part of history will be left out."

Source: CNN

What Farris wishes to do is not to remember more of the deeds and accomplishments of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. but his real and human side. Life is not just about events that come and go but is made complete by the fullness of human emotions as we interact with the challenges of life and dreams of our hearts.

barren land - shane

barren land - shane

barren land can overflow with
life and fruit and fields that grow
in the barren land with labor and toil
planting seed and tilling soil
will stay the same, stay the same

but if for rain! but if for rain!
but if for rain to fall, irresistibly call
rain to cover me
but if for rain to heal, uncontrollably fill
the soil of eternity

and barren land will overflow with
life and fruit and fields that grow

Holy Spirit spur me to till
a once barren land so thirsty still
for living water, O God, sustains
so life and fruit and fields remain
lest they stay the same, stay the same

Psalm 27

13 I am still confident of this:
I will see the goodness of the LORD
in the land of the living.

14 Wait for the LORD;
be strong and take heart
and wait for the LORD.