BRAND NEW

Snippet

Quiet keeping score altogether and surrender yourself with all your sinfulness to God who sees neither the score nor the scorekeeper but only His child redeemed By Christ.  Thomas Merton

Scripture

This is what God says,

    the God who builds a road right through the ocean,

    who carves a path through pounding waves,

The God who summons horses and chariots and armies—

    they lie down and then can’t get up;

    they’re snuffed out like so many candles:

“Forget about what’s happened;

    don’t keep going over old history.

Be alert, be present. I’m about to do something brand-new.

    It’s bursting out! Don’t you see it?

There it is! I’m making a road through the desert,

    rivers in the badlands.

Wild animals will say ‘Thank you!’

    —the coyotes and the buzzards—

Because I provided water in the desert,

    rivers through the sun-baked earth,

Drinking water for the people I chose,

    the people I made especially for myself,

    a people custom-made to praise me. Isaiah 43:18-20 Mess

Song

Brand New By Daisy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV6FMXClArU

[Recording:]

And we sing this morning

that wonderful and grand old message.

I don't know about you but I never get tired of it

Number 99: Just As I Am.

I'm a mountain that has been moved

I'm a river that is all dried up

I'm an ocean nothing floats on

I'm a sky that nothing wants to fly in

I'm a sun that doesn't burn hot

I'm a moon that never shows it's face

I'm a mouth that doesn't smile

I'm a word that no one ever wants to say.

[Child Speaking:]

I don't wanna be,

He wasn't finding anybody when he was on the shelf

I saw him in my dream

I'm a mountain that has been moved

I'm a fugitive that has no legs to run

I'm a preacher with no pulpit

Spewing a sermon that goes on and on and on.

Well if we take all these things

and we bury them fast

And we'll pray that they turn into seeds,

to roots and then grass

It'd be all right, it's all right,

it'd be easier that way.

Or if the sky opened up and started pouring rain

Like he knew it was time

to start things over again

It'd be all right, it's all right,

it'd be easier that way.

Well if we take all these things

and we bury them fast

And we'll pray that they turn into seeds,

to roots and then grass

It'd be all right, it's all right,

it'd be easier that way

Or if the sky opened up and started pouring rain

Like he knew it was time

to start things over again

It'd be all right, it's all right,

it'd be easier that way

Sentence Prayer

Holy Spirit;

Help us to learn

That anyone who

Sticks to Jesus is new

The old is gone

And the new is seed & grass

already begun.  Amen