blog log-jam

I need to blog more often. Not because I should but because the longer I wait the more blog ideas get mixed up in tangled nests in my head. Aaaarrrgghh! Maybe I'll post twice today.

This particular blog has been stewing since Sunday. It got tangled with a Psalm yesterday - let's start there and work backwards.

Psalm 8 A David Psalm
God, brilliant Lord, yours is a household name.

Nursing infants gurgle choruses about you; toddlers shout the songs that drown out enemy talk, and silence atheist babble.

I look up at your macro-skies, dark and enormous, your handmade sky-jewelry, moon and stars mounted in their settings. Then I look at my micro-self and wonder, why do you bother with us? Why take a second look our way?

Yet we've so narrowly missed being gods, bright with Eden's dawn light. You put us in charge of your handcrafted world, repeated to us your Genesis-charge, made us lords of sheep and cattle, even animals out in the wild, birds flying and fish swimming, whales singing in the ocean deeps.

God, brilliant Lord, your name echoes around the world.

O.K. so I added the italics- but that's the question that's been resounding within since Sunday. Why do you bother with us? Why take a second look our way?
And now here is part of the text from Sunday's service:

And they sang a new song:
Worthy! Take the scroll, open its seal.
Slain! Paying in blood, you bought men and women,
Bought them back from all over the earth,
Bought them back for God.
Then you made them a Kingdom,
Priests for our God,
Priest-kings to rule over the earth.
Revelation 5: 8-10

There we were on Sunday, coming freshly out of our remembrance of his death, his suffering, his sacrifice, now celebrating his resurrection, his victory, his worthiness! And my heart broke (or did it take flight) that he did all that for US?! What does he see in us?! What unwarranted love! I've been reveling in my boughtness, caughtness, my loved-for-no-good-reason status.

The slain Lamb is worthy!
Take the power, the wealth, the wisdom, the strength!
Take the honor, the glory, the blessing!