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No Reason

Do you ever feel happy for no reason?  Just a sudden and unexpected feeling of gratitude washing over you?

This morning I felt that way: grateful for this crazy lifetime in this crazy world and for a Savior Friend who makes it all shine.

So, in this briefest of posts, I simply wanted to shout at the top of my lungs from the rooftops with all the other Owls―

   "God is good!"

   "God is love!"

. . . and hope my shout echos across the canyons to find you wherever you are, whatever adventure or misfortune marks your path, and share a whippet of a poem I wrote recently that I hope will help you on your way.

A Librarian's Nightmare

The inspiration for the poem came as I closed a book I was reading the other night, searching in vain for something to save my place with.

No bookmark in sight, not even a Starburst wrapper.

You might recoil when I tell you how I improvised a solution to my problem.

I turned to the front of the book where the front pages are (you know, the ones that are blank for some reason) and I ripped a strip from one of them.

Voila!  The book itself provided the bookmark.

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a poem

    Between chapters
    I tore a page
          from the Lamb’s book
          to mark my place

That's it.  That's all.  

     God is good.

     God is love.