i'm grumpy and glad i'm home.

Little Boy Heart Alive
Words and music by Andrew Peterson
[from Appendix A: Bootlegs & B-Sides, 2006]

Open the door and run outside / Your little boy heart alive
Into the morning light / Into the deep and wide

Dinosaur bones in the flowerbed / Rockets in the clouds
In a fight with a spider’s web / Tunnels in the ground

Winding to China / To the mist of the distant shore
Better be home by suppertime / Back through the planet core

Feel the beat of a distant thunder / It’s the sound of an ancient song
This is the Kingdom calling / Come now and tread the dawn

Come to the father / Come to the deeper well
Drink of the water / And come to live a tale to tell

Pages are turning now / This is abundant life
The joy in the journey / Is enough to make a grown man cry
With a little boy heart alive

Kings and castles in the neighborhood / Swords on the forest floor
Dragons in the magic wood / Better saddle your battle horse

Fighting Goliath / Better choose your weapons right
Five little stones and a faith on fire / In a little boy heart alive

Chorus

Met a kid at the railroad track / He had a stick and a nylon sack
I ran to the house to pack / I wanted to follow

Take a ride on the mighty lion / Take a hold of the golden mane
This is the love of Jesus / So good but it is not tame

Chorus 

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so i finally got my cd back from paul.

i don't know what it is about that last chorus, but it always catches me off guard when i haven't heard it in awhile. because i'm often not quite able to sing that last part.

i think that too often we forget the boundless power and passionate jealousy and depthless fury of our untamable God.

the love of Jesus is not a force to be reckoned with.

[go here for a small sample from the studio version on the far country.] 

go grocery shopping after ash wednesday service.

my favorite was the guy stocking cans that stopped me and said, "hey, can i ask you, what's with the stamp everyone's got today? earlier, i told some girl she had something on her forehead and she said, 'oh, i know,' and just walked away. i was like, uhhhhh. okay, then." poor guy, kept in suspense. i explained about the ashes and the cross and the lent and the easter. he seemed relieved to at least finally know the answer.

last year's fun came from kt's accidental observation at the gym. 

kevin might be especially amused by this.

 "Goodbye. I love you."

i am listening to the local radio station to stay updated on the latest weather reports. unfortunately, power 105 = the reason i have consistently listened to cds in my car for the past five years.

if the snow/ice/rain weather parfait doesn't kill me, I WILL.