AMY GRANT - Better Than A Hallelujah Lyrics

AMY GRANT - Better Than A Hallelujah Lyrics:

"God loves a lullaby
In a mothers tears in the dead of night
Better than a Hallelujah sometimes.
God loves a drunkards cry,
The soldiers plea not to let him die
Better than a Hallelujah sometimes.

We pour out our miseries
God just hears a melody
Beautiful the mess we are
The honest cries of breaking hearts
Are better than a Hallelujah

The woman holding on for life,
The dying man giving up the fight
Are better than a Hallelujah sometimes
The tears of shame for what's been done,
The silence when the words won't come
Are better than a Hallelujah sometimes.

We pour out our miseries
God just hears a melody
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Beautiful the mess we are
The honest cries of breaking hearts
Are better than a Hallelujah

Better than a church bell ringing,
Better than a choir singing out,singing out.

We pour out our miseries
God just hears a melody
Beautiful the mess we are
The honest cries of breaking hearts
Are better than a Hallelujah


Repeat Chorus"

Basic Training

Well, I began my journey last Tuesday night into the world of EMT-ville. My classes began in which I am aspiring to pass this EMT-B class and be on my way to a possible career in medicine...the urgent kind! I met our instructor, Wes Thompson...he seems like a nice enough fella; ordered our shirts; got a TON of material in which I have 2 workbooks to complete, and in so doing it will equal to 1 major test grade of 100, which I may need as a grade to complete this course. I also found our last Thurday night that I am NOT the oldest in the class, which in itself gives me a mental victory at least! We will have about 5 spelling tests, which will total to equal 1 major test grade as well! I was always pretty good in spelling so this could be a boon for me (we have our first spelling test tonite!).

I do realize that this course will be monumental for me to pass because it is going to be really hard!!! Lots of information and things and procedures to learn and memorize!! We will have several all-day Saturdays to enjoy each others' company and to practice the skills that we will learn in class! Thursday nights' chapter will be on 'The Human Body', in which it details all the bone structure, heart, brain(ium), everything! PRAY that it will all soak into my own brainium so as to become ready to 'upload' when I need answers in class on test day! We get to learn how to extricate a patient from a vehicle on one Saturday, how to drive an ambulance one Saturday, there's a class to learn how to deliver a baby, millions of other important stuff to learn...all before June 10th!!!

Hepatitis B, Tuberculosis, triangulate, consent, DNR, HIPPA, trauma, AIDS, innoculation, on-line, off-line, CISM, stress, decontamination, hazardous, abandonment, confidentiality,scope of practice, duty to act, liability are ALL words I need to know!!

Our shirts are supposed to come tonite, I also have a MCC cap coming--hey, this IS my college course, so I should celebrate somehow, right??? Never a UNC t-shirt or anything so just a mere 35 years later I have delved into the world of education...so I at least deserve a cap don't I???

I think that this new profession (I AM trying to reinvent myself!!) will possibly allow me to honor ♥ Jesus ♥ in a new way and if I am able to witness or encourage one soul along the way it will be well worth the effort! ☺

If I Was God...

As I was reading my devotional this morning I got to thinking about this rediculous question: "What if I was God"??? What would I do differently than what the Creator of the universe do?? Well, for starters I wouldn't send my Son...my Only Son into the world to a small little nothing of a place like Bethlehem! Rome, maybe, but Bethlehem, never! What was the prestige of coming even TO a place so small and unimportant as Bethlehem?? Center of commerce?? Lots of important people living there?? Come on, even CNN wouldn't have been THERE! My Son would have deserved better than Bethlehem!! Lots of grandeur, lots of paparazzi, lots of very influential folks there to witness such as event!

And a stable? You have GOT to be kidding me!!! No room at the inn?? What kind of place is this anyway?? I'm sending God-Incarnate to the earth and I'm gonna send Him to be born around a bunch of cattle and stink and hay and cold...among lowly shepherds as the first visitors to such an occasion?? Come on, I have to have a better imagination than this!! This is appalling!!! Very UN-king-like, wouldn't you say?? And just who would believe such a story as this of the Messiah, the Christ-child which had been awaited for thousands of years!! And the Redeemer of Israel spent His first night on earth sleeping in a trough??? To even believe such a far-fetched story as this would take an enormous sense of faith, let alone to be a party to this and engage so as to bring gifts to the 'King'!!

Later this same Man would be taken captive in the middle of the night by a riotous mob that was bent on having Him killed--no not by their own hands but by the hands of the government! The Romans would do the dirty work, they would just submit the phony charges and accusations against this Jesus, Who is the Christ! If I was God, would I have allowed that??? Touch one hair on His head and it would have been over for the whole party of those who had come to dare take my Son into captivity for crimes that He had never committed!! I may have even killed all the people within a hundred miles of the Garden! Perfect, sinless, Holy and righteous!! He was beyond what any man could ever attain and yet he would be on 'trial' for what these men said was worthy of death. And try as they did, they were only able to find this last plea against Him...that He said He was God and King of the Jews...and a threat to the Roman king, Ceasar. The WHAT!!???

But you know what??? Of course you do, I am NOT God! Nor would my plan have been perfect! Even my reasoning here is VERY flawed!!! Reasonable in man's eyes maybe, but reasonable in the perfect plan of God, no way!! God's plans are not always our plans and His ways are not our ways, nor is His reasoning and understanding! Don't forget we are made in HIS image, not the other way around!! THANK GOD!!!!! What a mess I would have made of this Perfect Plan of Salvation!!! Perfect, absolutely perfect!!!

"For God so loved the world that He gave His Only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life"~ John 3:16

If I was God today, you wanna know what I would do about....

I can't stop myself ☺

Winter...My Perspective☺

Here it is, Feb. 4th and I'M READY for SPRING...already!!! What is going on in this time of 'Global Warming'??? What globe is Al Gore the Bore talking about?? We've had 2 pretty nice snows...in itself is a small wonder because here in this part of the globe (Statesville). They are calling on an ice/snow/freezing rain/rain mixture in the next 36 hours...I'm not even a FAN of cold weather! I had 'wished' to move to Alaska--the state once governed by Gov. Sarah Palin, the "Last Frontier"...but I think that I am going to have to recant that wish right now! What was I thinking???

Just let me rant just a minute (my space, right??). Just what do we pay the D.O.T. for anyway??? Are they a waste of $$$ here in Iredell County?? It snowed last Friday & Saturday here. They managed to scrap one side of Old Mountain Road pretty good and the other side was left to wear/melt as well as possible. As far as 'Secondary Roads' such as East Monbo, Pineville, Buffalo Shoals, Island Ford etc. have been left to melt as time passes. My real beef is why are all the DOT trucks on the roads...all over the county with their blades pulled up?? What do they think they are for?? Drop 'em and scrap the roads you're riding on already!! You see those guys crusing on the other roads...Don't have an 'order' to scrape a certain road?? Then why be on it?? I saw 2 trucks sitting at Kat's Patch parking lot the other day....I guess they were discussing the up-coming Super Bowl game or something. Why do they get paid to sit in a parking lot when there are roads all OVER the county that needs scraping. And if these morons that actually DO clean off a road (such as Old Mountain Road) would drive slower and safer, they wouldn't be knocking down all those mail boxes and newspaper boxes! If the driver themselves had to come back and fix this destruction, they might think again about flying up and down the road at 40 or 45 miles an hour while cleaning off the road!!

On a positive note, Christy and I have spent several days out taking pictures of the white fluffy stuff! Snow creates a totally different look for the world that we live in! We went out yesterday to North Iredell to snap a few (hundred) pics and it was SOOOOO beautiful! Even the cemetery there at Snow Creek looked extraordinary!!! Cattle feeding in the snow, horses grazing in pastures, barns varnished with the magical white, hills and valleys dressed in the satin sheen...ALL gifts from God for us that take our breath away!!

This is what I LOVE about winter...but the mess after it starts to melt, the difficulty that I/we have in motoring around in the unkept roads (see above!), driveways and parking lots that are problematic for our entry and getting about, the yard that poor Toby is reluctant to go out into to use the bathroom in (LOL), the chance of losing power during these storms--especially ice! All this makes spring look better and better!!

Besides--spring brings---YES....BASEBALL!!!!!!

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'Pants On the Ground'

Is there anyone who hasn't heard of Gen. Larry Platt's rendition of "Pants On The Ground"?? And the hilarity of the song is the truth that it states!!! I am ever amazed why today's young men...and some old(er) enough to KNOW better...that want to walk around and with every other step they wanna...no they HAVE to pull on their pants because they are about to fall down! I am at the edge of believing that they are just to sorry to wear a belt. Rebel...go against the flow...be different...make your own statment...be an individual....whatEVER... just pull your dang pants up you sorry thing!

That not only is disgusting but it is disrespectful...a word that probably has gone unknown and foreign to today's male population. I think it started in the 'gangsta'/getto neighborhood aka 'hood' but just get over yourself! I don't know of ANYONE who wants to see your nasty underwear...or anything else. If ya can't afford a belt, don't buy your pants fifteen sizes too big!!! STUPID!

"PANTS ON THE GROUND, PANTS ON THE GROUND! LOOKIN' LIKE A FOOL WITH YOUR PANTS ON THE GROUND!! HAT TURNED SIDEWAYS, GOLD IN YOUR MOUTH! LOOKIN' LIKE A FOOL WITH YOUR PANTS ON THE GROUND!!"

I applaud the General for taking a stand--probably a very unpopular stand with the brothas in the hood! He's a very wise man...and probably pretty wealthy too, now!

Like DeAngelo Williams of the Carolina Panthers version:

PULL 'EM UP, PULL 'EM UP, PULL 'EM UP!!!!!!!!!!!

Change

Do I ever hate change! It happens all the time! Yet, as I grow older I hate it more and more! At times, change is good and rarely do I ever agree with that until it is hindsight and I'm looking back instead of forward! And truth be told, change is the only constant in life! "What is changing?" you ask...

Well, we have changed into a new year...the old one was ok I guess but 22 days ago we bounced right into a new one, like it or not. With that comes new laws, another new tax year, something else to remember when writing checks etc. (I still catch myself writing 2009) and there's new opportunities... for service, for growth, for opportunity! Which of these will it be in 2010?? For me?? For you??

I began a journey on the 4th of Jan. to embark on a new career, or at least a new direction. I have registered for a EMT-B class, which will possibly enable me to become a EMT Basic and possibly and hopefully, a job with NuCare ambulance service! If not that, it will certainly open a few more doors of opportunity that right now does not exist for me. This training will also enable me to be more efficient while staying with my Mom, on the nights that my sister Sandy works for the County (EMS). I stay with Mom and due to her health issues at least I would have the skills to be of benefit! It will also help me maybe with my Dad, as he is still fighting off the death-grip of esophageal cancer and you never know what medical emergency he may require.

As a child my first desire was to become a doctor. When reality set in and I determined that I wasn't going to make the kind of grades and have the money for med school, I quickly sought a new life desire: Paleontologist. And after that followed a dream to become a Major League Baseball player-- a dream that I only recently gave up on as a 50+ year old rookie might not have a very good chance to hit a 90 mile an hour fastball--or pitch one!

So it's kindof funny the irony of this EMT class!!

Other changes that have recently occured in my life has been my stepping down as PowerPoint person at Grace. The itch is still there to be honest because I do enjoy 'creating' stuff on the computer, as witnessed by my websites and other adventures here on the web...but the decision to begin using the Easy Worship program and by my helpers desiring more and more Sundays-- it became clear that this would be a pretty good time to step aside. I have done PowerPoint for several years, to be honest I don't remember how long exactly! I know that Pastor Greg had asked me to help out Lorri, who was the PPT. queen! She is super smart and everything that I did RIGHT is because of Lorri and everything that I messed up on was all my own doing! At the time I was helping Lorri and Bev....when Bev left I was Lorri's backup and when Lorri left I was up. The PPT. 'job' was a stressful and rewarding one for sure--stressful b/c of the songs...always the songs. When Jim was the Worship Leader the songs were pretty much a 'piece of cake' but after he left it seems that the stress bagan. 'They' say that the Easy Worship is much easier than PPT. and easier to go between verse and chorus etc. Maybe. Two monitors and two open programs doesn't seem easier to me but...it gives opportunity to my replacements!

And the rewarding thing was on that rare occasion when I didn't make any mistakes, when the colors and the text all looked great, the song slides were all in sequence and I had all the announcement slides up-to-date! PowerPoint really looked good on those huge moniters on the wall!!

I have gone back to going to church with Denise, it just seems to make sense. As I begin this new challenge of 'the class' I just think I need to shed all the stress that I possibly can and even in that there is new opportunities and open doors. I'm not gonna talk about that right now...just stuff on the back burner...but we'll see how those things go in the future. It is kindof nice to go to church with Denise and to see some of the old friends from my (Christian) childhood and new friends too!

I'm not sure of the other changes that are in store for this new year. I know that somehow I'm gonna need to find a job...like about 20 million of my closest friends, so we'll see how that all plays out too...

Let's see....the arm bone connected to the hand bone...the hand bone connected (or disconnected......) ☺