O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is Thy name in all the earth!
Who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained;
What is man, that Thou art mindful of him?
And the son of man, that Thou visitest him?
For Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Psalm 8: 1-5
So last night we bundled off to Karuna’s and happily shared coconut soup and pad thai and red curry. And marveled at the Thai temple spire photos. Which brought to mind some stunning Chinese architecture courtesy of the Atlanticand Marco’s visions of China through a camera lens. And then Nicole’s four months in Indonesia. To say nothing of the girls’ new community of Pinterest and the artistic marvels thus ordered and stacked electronically. And really just listening to Heather describe how very happy happy Dustin is to be able to fix up her bike and lift the handlebars and rearrange the gearshift. And sketches galore are spilling out of his pen about a new maybe project down the street. And then just before the run around Reid Park the girls discuss whether we should make pumpkin cheesecake or mocha chocolate cheesecake to go with the Angie’s salty carmel ice cream and why not both, after we gobble the brined turkey, the jalapeño sweet potatoes and the everything-but-the-kitchen sink gingerbread-cranberry-walnut-
O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is Thy name in all the earth!
From there we went to the Victory Elevate service at the U of A which was a little thin since its Thanksgiving Break and everyone is home doing laundry and watching football games. And really, if I were a little more clever and a lot wittier, I could have done the same teaching, Attitude of Gratitude. But even if we have heard it all before, it is The Truth. Because I have of course been thinking lately about what made David “a man after God’s own heart." And I am pretty sure that this is it. David frames the before and after of all of his conversations with God with the statement of truth: O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
And Jesus, just before he broke up the seven loaves to divide up amongst the thousands, before it miraculously multiplied like so many fluffy rabbits, gave thanks. Not afterwards. Before. Not give thanks FOR all things, rather we are told to give thanks IN all things. Which is different. In the midst of it all, in all of those temptations which are common to man, I shall offer up thanks. And in the same night that he was betrayed, he too broke the bread, and gave thanks in all things.
328. For such a dorky swim coach as to make us gobble when we swim our twenty-five sprints.
329. Can I be grateful again for Panchita and all the neatly labeled jars in my cupboard?
330. For Reid Park and that it is so very fun to see people running around and up and through it, even if I don’t go with them.
331. For the big box of twelve varietal Italians wines that arrived with special directions for each to be explained by Giovanni.
332. That the ceasefire in Israel and Gaza is still holding even after twenty-four hours.
O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is Thy name in all the earth!
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