Quietness and Trust

Still

Words and Music by Reuben Morgan

Hide me now

Under your wings

Cover me

within your mighty hand

When the oceans rise and thunders roar

I will soar with you above the storm

Father you are king over the flood

I will be still and know you are god

Find rest my soul

In Christ alone

Know his power

In quietness and trust

Oh the irony...

Apparently a writer for the LA times wrote an article recently about what irony is and what it isn't. I liked his list of bona fide ironic stories, with a couple other ones I found along the way....

• Brewing heir Adolph Coors III was allergic to beer.
• County supervisors in Pima County, Ariz., held a closed meeting to discuss Arizona's open meeting law.
• U.S. Border Patrol uniforms are manufactured in Mexico.
• When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, so many visitors were taking souvenir pieces that a protective fence was installed, so that, yes, the Berlin Wall was guarded by a wall.
• Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's 2005 state of the nation address, in which he promised to remedy his country's chronic electricity shortages, was blacked out by a power failure.
• A 17-year-old Amish boy was electrocuted by a downed power line that became tangled in the wheels of his horse-drawn buggy.
• The "Marlboro Man" died of lung cancer.
• A 2001 Father's Day tribute on ESPN featured "How Sweet It Is (to be Loved by You)," sung by Marvin Gaye, who was shot and killed by his father in 1984.
• Entries for the Florida Press Club's 2005 Excellence in Journalism Award for hurricane coverage were lost in Hurricane Katrina.
• Adel Smith, president of the Muslim Union of Italy, who brought charges against Italian author Oriana Fallaci for defaming Islam, has been sentenced to six months in prison—for defaming the Catholic Church.
• That Valentine's Day was placed in February, just in case single people have recovered from the loneliness that Christmas and New Year's Eve induced.
• People who refuse to see a psychologist because they don't need to pay someone to help them out with their issues, but will gladly spend $100 a week at a tanning salon.
• That you wouldn't have the faintest idea if your accountant was ripping you off.

Warmth

So I have to laugh. I log on to the internet today, and my home page comes up. It's a weather page, which likes to compare today to yesterday. Guess what it says? Today is forecast to be Warmer than yesterday. Just like that - red letters and everything, to make you feel Warmer as you read it, or something :) Why am I laughing? Because yesterday's high was a frigid 18 degrees, and today is forecast to be a high of 20 degrees. Ah yes, 20 degrees invokes such a feeling of Warmth. I guess it's all a matter of perspective :)