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vastness

I love the word "vast." It seems so endless, inexhaustible, unconquerable, strong, incomprehensible even when you're right next to it. Like standing next to the sea on a stormy day, looking out and seeing no end in any direction. That's amazing. It's fearful. It's calming. It's thrilling.

In choir yesterday we sang a song with the word "vast" in it. Scott called attention to it because of the pronunciation, and said something about it being a word we never use. Then it kept coming up in like three other songs, and somebody said something about "it must be a 'vast' day". But it caught my attention. I've listed a few of the lyrics, and I love the perspective the word brings to the character of God


"How vast His grace"

"O, the deep, deep love of Jesus/vast, unmeasured, boundless, free...."

"....'tis an ocean vast of blessing"

"How deep the Father's love for us/how vast beyond all measure...."

My possible favorite we did not sing yesterday, but the concept in these lines has always amazed me. It's from "Creation Hymn" I think by Craig Courtney--

High mountains rising to the sky
Bow down before their Author's eye;
Sea depths now echoing the land's refrain,
their vast expanse too small to hold His name....

He is Lord.

posted by kathryn @ 3:23 PM