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His Child

As well as the song in the previous post 😀 I’ve also been playing “Father and Daughter” by Paul Simon a lot lately….
This is from a movie called The Wild Thornberrys, which I have seen, but can’t remember much about it….

I heard this song a while ago but as I was listening one day, I felt that God was singing it to me…. I heard such love, like a doting Daddy, and felt warmth and safety, and an unquestioning trust. I have heard it that way ever since.

I know that, line by line, some could take issue that I’m being flippant… perhaps I’m not being completely theologically sound…
I only know that God let me know He loved me 😀

My Dad was one of the good guys. He had a temper… and my memory is that he worked long hours… but he was trustworthy, a salt-of-the-earth type of bloke. When I hear of God as Father, it’s not a huge stretch for me to comprehend it…
… but I know there are many who didn’t have good fathers. Many who, when they hear of Father God, think of a cold, heartless, abusive, destructive being…. and they close up in fear..
I so wish that I could get across that image of God as loving Daddy… as a safe haven, a warm embrace. As One Who is delighted to watch His children grow. That’s the Daddy I know. I wish that everyone could find Him.

Yes, this is just a song. Maybe I’m the only one getting this image from it…
But I pray that you can listen, and catch a glimpse of the loving Father, waiting for you to come to Him…

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My New Favourite Song…

We learned this for a group we attend on Friday mornings… I love it 😀
Their other songs are pretty good too….

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Yep :)

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Theme Songs

Sometimes in your life, there are certain songs that sum up how you feel a large part of the time… for a long time, this was mine..

I was a melancholy child…

I still have “rock” days… sometimes things overwhelm me… but that’s not who I am anymore..

..and it’s not true, by the way.
Rocks feel a great deal of pain.
Islands cry buckets.
Just not where anyone can see them..

… but
One day, I finally realised that Jesus loved me..
and this became my theme song.

😀
I didn’t find that song until later, though..

This was the song I played over and over, 18 years ago..
(I couldn’t find a youtube clip – here’s a Grooveshark link..)

Whatever happens in my life, I am loved…
it still hurts, when there are people I want to care, and who just… don’t.
But I am never alone.
And my theme is joy!

(Not the official clip for this song, but I thought it was cute..)

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Victory!

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Moogerah Passion Play

Yesterday we went to Lake Moogerah to see the Passion play. It’s on every year, but we haven’t been for a bit. This year, we went because friends are involved, and we wanted to see the play again. It started at 5pm, and was a lovely sunny day…

We got what we thought was a good spot, but later found we couldn’t see the tomb, and the resurrection… consequently I have no photos for that (it was dark as well, so that didn’t help with my camera focusing..)
There were as many as 2000 people there… a mass of humanity, mostly quiet, but occasionally there was talking through the dialogue, people moving about, children crying. The microphones didn’t work properly at times, and it was difficult to see some scenes. We started off feeling a bit irritated, but after a while, I thought of Jesus… sitting on a hill , with people chattering, moving about, generally being human.
One of the things I enjoy about the Passion play is the sense that I get of the nameless people from the gospel stories – the children who raced to tell their friends…. the women kneading bread… the people flocking after Jesus. You can hear the pain in the voice of the woman with the issue of blood… the despair of the woman caught in adultery. Both times I have been, Judas has been given a more sympathetic hearing, which was interesting…. there but for the grace of God?
Over all, I get a sense of the love Jesus had (and has) for his frail, clueless, greatly human disciples, who are so like us… and the love and loyalty they had for Him.

Throughout the play, there are peripheral characters, living life on the sidelines, either waiting for their scene, or just “there”

This little boy was fishing for a period of time, while events swirled around him.

We saw the calling of the disciples, the people’s realisation that a prophet was among them… When Jesus taught His disciples, he was also teaching us.

When He fed the 5000, He was also feeding us (the cast circulated through the crowd, giving out bread)
We were there, with them. We heard the people calling out, when Jesus entered the city… and the same people calling “Crucify Him!” just a short time later. Heard the false accusations before the Sanhedrin.
Heard the hammer strike the wood… and Mary weeping at the foot of the Cross..

It is finished.

And, finally… we saw the tomb opened, and the light pour out… and Mary Magdalene running to take the good news to the mourning…

He’s Alive!

Passion plays have a long history, with varying degrees of reverence and accuracy over the years. I enjoyed the chance to be part of this one, even just as a spectator…. to “experience”, as well as hear the Gospel. I’m glad we have that opportunity and freedom..

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Grace

… because it still abounds..

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Passover

Last Friday, we celebrated Passover with some friends at a group we go to regularly on Friday mornings. It was fun, and thought provoking… the symbolism spoke so clearly to me of Jesus..
We all had a part to play (a bit like the church…)
Here’s a link to the Messianic Passover Haggadah we used..
Here we are..