Beautiful Day

Yesterday wasn't much of one...

There are some Sundays when it all seems like a lot of work. Conversation followed conversation and I wondered if anything I had said had ever made sense to anyone. Good thing I have such a great wife and family...

So today is a new day and God lined up a series of providential encounters to show me that it is OK.

I walk out of the our church's building to go to the store. It's about a 10 minute walk. I get there and find the things I needed. I walk out and come across a friend. We chat. I walk on. I come across another friend. We chat. Then I walk on and I come across another person with whom I wanted to have a conversation. We talk and as I walk on a friend drives by in his car...

It's a beautiful day.

U2 - Beautiful Day

The heart is a bloom
Shoots up through the stony ground
There's no room
No space to rent in this town

You're out of luck
And the reason that you had to care
The traffic is stuck
And you're not moving anywhere

You thought you'd found a friend
To take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand
In return for grace

It's a beautiful day
Sky falls, you feel like
It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away

You're on the road
But you've got no destination
You're in the mud
In the maze of her imagination

You love this town
Even if that doesn't ring true
You've been all over
And it's been all over you

It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
It's a beautiful day

Touch me
Take me to that other place
Teach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case

See the world in green and blue
See China right in front of you
See the canyons broken by cloud
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the Bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light
And see the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colors came out

It was a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
Beautiful day

Touch me
Take me to that other place
Reach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case

What you don't have you don't need it now
What you don't know you can feel it somehow
What you don't have you don't need it now
Don't need it now
Was a beautiful day

Comments

[Matthew Glock]

Thanks Hiedi and good morning to you too.

I'll take a look at that sermon.

God bless you and Keith as you pursue your dreams!

[Heidi Renee]

Good morning Matthew! I wondered if you have ever read "The Weight of Glory" sermon that CS Lewis gave decades ago? I just finished it for the program Keith and I are doing and it spoke to this, especially the lyrics of the U2 song so beautifully.

You can find it online in pdf form and it helped me finally to understand some of the deep desires I have in my heart - that so often go unmet. Lewis tells us that those deep desires were placed there by God to draw us to him and that they really aren't supposed to be met permanently here on earth.

I think I had always been ashamed of those deep desires within me. That it some how meant I was discontent. Reading that they were god-given somehow made everything different. I don't understand it, but I recommend reading it. It's truly beautiful.