I have to be up in just a few hours to go to the airport, so I don't have time to elaborate, but I'll lose these thoughts if I don't go ahead and post them.  Two nearly completely disconnected thoughts today...

1.  I think I tend to cheapen God's mercy in my mind.  It sounds like a simple and basic sentence.  I'll write more about it if I can piece together my thoughts on the topic into something that makes sense here.  Just something I've been thinking about, though -- how can I possibly take the mercy and grace that God has shown me as lightly as I do most days?  Simple, sure.  But, kind of not at the same time.  I want to think through it more.  Only good things can come from it. :)

2.  I'm really liking these song lyrics tonight.  They are the sort of lyrics I can nod my head to tonight, and say, "yeah...true."  (That actually happened -- the nodding and agreeing part.)

"I know the words of life to come are true

But sometimes they feel like salt upon the wound

When I'm asking in these moments where are you

Where are you?

Sometimes it's like Lazarus, you come to roll the stone away

And watch him walk back out alive

Sometimes it's like my good friend Paul, breathless on the interstate

Mother weeping at his side

Either way it's something I will never understand

But I trust enough to take you at your word

So I believe, though it's hard sometimes

You are the resurrection and the life."