"You fill up my senses/like a night in the forest/like the mountains in springtime/like a walk in the rain/like a storm in the desert/like a sleepy blue ocean/You fill up my desert/like a sleepy blue ocean/you fill up my senses/come fill me up agian/come let me love you/let me give my life to you/let me drown in your laughter/let me die in your arms/let me lay down beside you/let me always be with you/come let me love you/come love me again"
--John Denver?

The Constantinopolitan Creed

(Creed of 150 Fathers)

We believe in one God, the Father All Governing, creator of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible;

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten from the Father before all time, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten not created, of the same essence as the Father, through Whom all things came into being, Who for us men and because of our salvation came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary and became human. He was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered and was buried, and rose on the third day, according to the Scriptures, and ascended to heaven, and sits on the right hand of the Father, and will come again with glory to judge the living and dead. His kingdom shall have no end.

And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and life-giver, Who proceeds from the Father, Who is worshiped and glorified together with the Father and Son, Who spoke through the prophets; and in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church. We confess one baptism for the remission of sins. We look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen.

Creeds!

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The Big Head

In the draw a person test, a clinician is advised to interpret a large head as indicating an over concern with matters of intellectual functioning; one system even suggests that it means brain damage.
-Psychological Testing: Principles, Applications and Issues P. 419

For a Fair Desire

For A Fair Desire

--ZAO

Let me not exist for a fair desire sweet and fresh

Are my expectations of this inner strength

That yearns passionately

For the endowment of the Father

I sow in tears that later I shall reap in joy

Each drop that I sow will be a time of breaking [3x]

Come Holy Spirit empower Your creation

Through times of breaking the planting of tears as I am broken

Your presence grows stronger

I feel You with me upholding me through it all

Let me not exist for a fair desire sweet and fresh

Are my expectations of this inner strength

That yearns passionately

For the endowment of

Each drop that I sow is a time of breaking

A time of breaking

How Deep the Fathers Love for Us

How Deep the Father's Love for Us
--- Stuart Townend

How deep the Father's love for us, how vast beyond all measure
That he should give his only son, to make a wretch his treasure
How great the pain of searing loss, the Father turned his face away
As wounds which mar the chosen one, bring many sons to glory


Behold the man upon a cross, my sin upon his shoulders
Ashamed, I hear my mocking voice call out among the scoffers
It was my sin that held him there until it was accomplished
His dying breath has brought me life; I know that it is finished


I will not boast in anything: no gifts, no power, no wisdom
But I will boast in Jesus Christ; his death and resurrection
Why should I gain from his reward? I cannot give an answer
But this I know with all my heart: his wounds have paid my ransom

Tears of the Saints

--Leeland
There are many prodigal sons
On our city streets they run
Searching for shelter
There are homes broken down
People’s hopes have fallen to the ground
From failures

This is an emergency!

There are tears from the saints
For the lost and unsaved
We’re crying for them come back home
We’re crying for them come back home
And all your children will stretch out their hands
And pick up the crippled man
Father, we will lead them home
Father, we will lead them home

There are schools full of hatred
Even churches have forsaken
Love and mercy
May we see this generation
In it’s state of desperation
For Your glory

This is an emergency!

Sinner, reach out your hands!
Children in Christ you stand!
Sinner, reach out your hands!
Children in Christ you stand!

And all Your children will stretch out their hands
And pick up the crippled man
Father, we will lead them home
Father, we will lead them home