Blessed be Your Name

This morning, as I woke up, a Hillsong song that we rehearsed at Worship Practice last night, Salvation is Here was replaying through my heart.  It is a song so filled with energy, passion, and truth.  Now many times I really don't know what the words to songs are because when I play my flute during Worship time, I'm playing not singing.. that and I have problems with remembering stuff... I blame it on my kids.

God above all the world in motion
God above all my hopes and fears
I don't care what the world throws at me now
It's gonna be alright

Hear the sound of the generations
Making loud our freedom song
All in all that the world would know Your name
It's gonna be alright

'Cause I know my God saved the day
And I know His word never fails
And I know my God made a way for me
Salvation is here

God above all the world in motion
God above all my hopes and fears
I don't care what the world throws at me now
It's gonna be alright

'Cause I know my God saved the day
And I know His word never fails
And I know my God made a way for me
Salvation is here

But as I was giving The Princess her breakfast, I received a phone call from a friend, whom I have known since Kindergarten.  She told me that one of our classmates had passed away last night.  I was shocked - I mean I still feel we're young, though we've been out of school for 26 (where did time go) years.  I was so thankful when she told me that he was a Believer. So in the past 24 hours, my highschool English teacher, Ms. Zimmerman and Shawn... I wasn't ready for the news.  It took me back a few years when John Relyea, missionary to the Tiap Village in Papua New Guinea, passed away from a massive heart attack just after the New Testament he and fellow Pioneer Bible Translators sent to the printer for publication.  During the service celebrating his life, one of the songs we sang was Blessed be Your Name by Matt Redman, and I stood there watching the tears pour down the faces of his wife and three children, the words were etched in my heart, and their lips mouth the words " Every blessing You pour out, I'll turn back to praise, When the darkness closes in, Lord Still I will say Blessed be Your Name..."    I must say that every time I hear that song I think of John.  Everytime I hear that someone I know has passed away, I think of that song...

Blessed Be Your Name
In the land that is plentiful 
Where Your streams of abundance flow
Blessed be Your name

Blessed Be Your name
When I'm found in the desert place
Though I walk through the wilderness
Blessed Be Your name

Every blessing You pour out 
I'll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say

Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name

Blessed be Your name
When the sun's shining down on me
When the world's 'all as it should be'

Blessed be Your name

Blessed be Your name
On the road marked with suffering 
Though there's pain in the offering 
Blessed be Your name

Every blessing You pour out 
I'll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say

Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name

Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name

You give and take away
You give and take away
My heart will choose to say
Lord, blessed be Your name