MTC Week #83 - Enjoying "Normal"

I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a normal week in the Choir. But this past week was one of those--and I'm grateful. Grateful, in particular, for the songs we sang today on Music & the Spoken Word and being able to simply feel the Spirit as I sang them and pondered their words.

There are three songs today that touched me the most. 

The first was "When the Saints Go Marching In." This traditional American song, for me, captures the excitement of when Christ will come again and how those who have prepared themselves will rejoice in that experience. 

On that hallelujah day
On that hallelujah day
O Lord, I want to be in that number
When the Saints go marching in

I don't know when that "hallelujah day" will come, but I hope to be part of it and maybe, just maybe, be able to sing at that grand event (how cool would that be?!)

The second was called "My House" from the musical Peter Pan. I don't believe I

had ever heard this song before but it's incredibly beautiful. The lyrics can apply to not only each individual, but to the work parents do to build their families on a firm foundation of love, trust, faith, and truth. I'm grateful for my wife as she and I have tried hard to do just that. The journey isn't over and will never be over, but I'm so blessed to feel like our home and family is centered on these attributes and principles. And even though, like every family, we go through hard times and trials, we know we can get through them if we stay centered on the gospel of Jesus Christ.

But build my house of love.
And paint my house with trusting.
And warm it with the warmth of your heart.

Make a floor of faith.
Make the walls of truth.
Put of roof of peace above.
Can you build my house of love.

The third was "Standing on the Promises" which has always been a favorite of mine ever since I first sang it a year or so ago. When things are tough and trials abound, you are desperate to feel God's love and to know in your heart that the promises God has given are true, they are real, and you can firmly stand on them. 




Standing on the promises that cannot fail,
When the howling storms of doubt and fear assail,
By the living Word of God I shall prevail,
Standing on the promises of God.

Standing, standing,
Standing on the promises of God my Savior;
Standing, standing,
I’m standing on the promises of God.

I'm grateful for a loving Heavenly Father who always keeps His end of the bargain. And I'm grateful, again, to sing praises to Him every week. It is a deep abiding blessing, the height and width of which I have no words to describe.

Until next time, God be with you.