Love has come down, Grace has a name.

We sang my favorite song on Sunday. "You are the Light" ohmysweemercy! I listen to that song nearly every morning and still it continues to slap me across the face. Love it. AND not only did we sing that, but it was Bleekerized and at the end of "You are the Light, he went straight into "Hosanna", but not the blechy parts, the GOOD part!! You know, the "Heal my heart and make it clean..." part! I rarely listen to "Hosanna" on my phone because it's sooo long and the only part of that song that I even like is that verse, but I really LOVE that verse, it always makes me cry.  So he blended "You are the Light" and the good part of "Hosanna" and my soul exploded all over the place. Such a wonderful Sunday. WONDERFUL!
 And Matt's sermon was spot-on and I don't know why, but I teetered on springing a leak the whole time. I'm lame like that. He just makes me love Jesus so much. Doesn't take much to make me cry the happy tears. (Ironically, it takes a lot for me to cry sad tears.)
        I would also like to say that I was at that Michael W. Smith/dc talk concert that Matt talked about attending back in the good ole days, but instead of thinking it was lame, I thought it was the best thing I'd ever seen in my entire life and it launched a disturbingly unhealthy obsession with dc Talk. I remember that concert. It was at Reunion Arena. It was the first time I saw dc talk. It was after Nu Thang came out. Man they were so radical! I remember them saying something about D-boy Rodriguez, who was a Christian rapper who'd been killed in Dallas recently. I was a little tiny kid, but I remember this concert clearlyish.
        Another thing Matt mentioned is how ridiculous the "Preach the Gospel always. If necessary, use words" quote is. I was glad to hear him say that because I've always had problems with that saying, yet it's practically been canonized by the Christian world.
It was really great to hear more of Matt's story too. I've heard most of it several times. I feel like I know Jeff Fairclaw personally. Ha! But Matt opened up and filled in some small gaps, so that was awesome.
It was just great. It was an amazing sermon, and an amazing Sunday.

I have the whole week off from school. Why? Because of MLK day, I think. nice!

On the way home (before we stopped at Panda Express of course!) Joel was looking through this new book that I bought to keep in my car. It's called The Conversation Piece and it's filled with intriguing questions like "What is one thing you wish had never been invented?" and "If you had the opportunity to walk through one celebrity's house, who would it be?"
So he's flipping through it and reading the questions to himself and he finally turned to me said, "Where are the answers??"  Hahahaha!! I hope he was kidding, but he looked so serious that I don't think he was.
That little fella never ceases to make me laugh!


I feel like I have a lot more inside of me that is dying to get out, but I don't know what it is, and this post is long enough, so I'll just leave you in peace. [smiley face, ya'll]

Here's a random picture of Matt standing next to the radiation machine. He's completely bald now. It works. He has the most awesome scar I've ever seen. I'm almost jealous.