Oh How Precious

Hi folks,

It’s been a while since I shared a “what song are you feeling” post. This song was running through my head all afternoon yesterday, I finally got the message. All I could remember was how awesome the tenor part (Oh how precious, Oh how precious, Precious is His Name!) sounded and the nice staccato/syncopated rhythm of the vamp: Oh - how - prec-ious - is - the - name - of Je-sus Oooo!

I could not remember how the song began, or what came right before or after the tenor part and the vamp. Thank God for resourceful friends who know how to use their phones to do a lyric search via Google, because around 4:50 PM yesterday, this song and I were reunited via YouTube.

The babies and I happily listened to it about three times before my workday was over and it was time to leave for my class. Class was awesome and after class I could not wait to get home to have a light dinner and listen to it as I drifted off to sleep. Well the reality of it was that I put my dinner in the microwave and fell out while waiting for it to be completed.

The Truth in Life

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that frightens us. Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us."

               -Nelson Mandela, inaugural address, written by Marianne Williamson

Do folks always seem to underestimate you? Hardly ever give you credit for your ideas, hard work, or abilities? Just straight up take you for granted? Are you at the point where you are almost too scared to take up space in your own world?