Soccer!

A few photos from a fun season of Caronport Youth Soccer!

Calling Out Your Name -Rich Mullins

I've always enjoyed this song by the late Rich Mullins, but never so much as I do now, finally living on the prairies. I love listening to it while I run on the grid roads around the campus, especially if it's sunset! You can't help but be drawn into worship.



CALLING OUT YOUR NAME-- Rich Mullins

Well the moon moved past Nebraska
And spilled laughter on them cold Dakota Hills
And angels danced on Jacob's stairs
Yeah, they danced on Jacob's stairs
There is this silence in the Badlands
And over Kansas the whole universe was stilled
By the whisper of a prayer
The whisper of a prayer

And the single hawk bursts into flight
And in the east the whole horizon is in flames
I feel the thunder in the sky
I see the sky about to rain
And I hear the prairies calling out Your name

I can feel the earth tremble
Beneath the rumbling of the buffalo hooves
And the fury in the pheasant's wings
And there's fury in a pheasant's wings
It tells me the Lord is in His temple
And there is still a faith
That can make the mountains move
And a love that can make the heavens ring
And I've seen love make heaven ring

Where the sacred rivers meet
Beneath the shadow of the Keeper of the plains
I feel the thunder in the sky
I see the sky about to rain
And I hear the prairies calling out Your name

From the place where morning gathers
You can look sometimes forever 'til you see
What time may never know
What time may never know
How the Lord takes by its corners this old world
And shakes us forward and shakes us free
To run wild with the hope
To run wild with the hope

The hope that this thirst will not last long
That it will soon drown in the song
Not sung in vain
And I feel the thunder in the sky
I see the sky about to rain
And I hear the prairies calling out Your name

In memory of Henry Louis Granju (1991-2010)

I've been a fan of Tennessee blogger and author Katie Allison Granju for years. So it's with much sadness that over the last month, I've read her honest account of her teenage son Henry's drug addiction, hospitalization from an overdose and a violent assault, and his recent death. I didn't know Henry or his family personally, but I am grieved that he is no longer in this world. Part of the reason Katie blogged about this ordeal was so that parents will recognize the dangers of drug use and intervene early. Henry's spiral into addiction started with a bit of marijuana experimentation at age 14, and his parents could not have predicted this end.