This n' That

It has been a long time since I wrote something on here! Life has been so busy that there hasn't been time to just slow down, take a deep breath and think and enjoy life. Our busyness seems to be over for a little while now and we are ready to enjoy our summer and hopefully not let it slip by without us noticing.
We had a youth campover in our backyard to end the youth group season. About half of the kids came, we had a lot of fun and they behaved themselves! I was sad to see the season end and yet we all need a break from each other and I know Chad and I need some time together to regroup and refresh before we start up again in the fall. We are already planning curriculum and such for the fall and looking forward to what God has in store.
An update on the adoption...we are now at #25 on the waiting list. We are slowly but surely moving up. How we hope something happens this fall! I will admit that some days the waiting is incredibly hard and it is easy to get down about it all and wonder if it will ever happen but for the most part time has been flying by and we are still hoping. Although I did tell Chad yesterday that if nothing has happened by next spring we will just have to steal a baby! Not seriously of course but still...
Today my Mom and I went out for our annual birthday lunch. For those of you who don't know I was born on my Mom's birthday. We try and go for lunch every year and go shopping or something. Today it was pedicures and lunch. I love my Mom. I love that we share this special day and that she made a point starting at a young age for me to make it even more special because we share it. I have never really dreaded any of my birthdays and I think it's because I always have the special time with her to look forward to. There is a part of me that is having a hard time with this birthday just because I am that much closer to the next decade and because we are on a waiting list but I am choosing not to dwell on that side of it. It is good to be alive and to be loved!
We are going away in a couple of weeks and oh how we are looking forward to it! We are going to Victoria for our 5th anniversary. Yes, it has been 5 years already! We will be staying at the same hotel and we have lots of nothing planned! We are going to relax and reconnect and just enjoy being together and away from the stress and busyness of life here. It is so needed and we are so blessed to be able to go. It means leaving Finlay in a kennel but I keep telling myself that he will be okay.
For those of you haven't heard I am going to be an auntie again! Mark and Beth are expecting their 5th! I am excited to meet this new little Petty. Their kids are all so diverse in personality and I can't wait to see how and where this new little one is going to fit in. They are amazing parents and their kids are all such blessings.
My neice Kayla graduated this year. How is that for making a person feel old?! I so clearly remember the day she was born and all the time she spent at our house and all of the special times we had together. She has grown into a beautiful young woman and I pray that the Lord leads her and guides her and that she grows closer to Him every day with an awareness that He needs to be her all.
I think that's it for now. A rather scattered blog but there is so much to say when nothing has been said for so long. I am sure I could just keep chatting but will stop here for now. I will try and be better about keeping everyone updated this summer. With us being at #25 on the waiting list there will hopefully be more encouraging updates every month.

My Story

Last night I shared the story of my life with our youth group. Okay, not absolutely everything in my life cause that would have taken way too long, but I did hit the most important parts, some of which are not easy to talk about, but it was something I knew I needed to do and something that I felt honored to do. My prayer leading up to last night was that the kids who needed to hear my story would be here. Some of our weeks are really hit and miss as far as who is here but last night everyone was here. Trust God to have a sense of humor! Speaking in front of a group is not something I am really comfortable with but these are 'my kids' which made it easier. It was a good night. There were many tears shed, most of which were mine but there were others as well and I saw God answering another prayer in that I wanted to bring Him glory and help the kids understand that God never promised us we wouldn't go through tough things but He did promise us that when we go through tough times He will walk through them with us. I have most definitely learned that and I am so thankful for it!


It was a good experience for me but I will admit that I am glad it's over! I could sense though that as I spoke it broke some walls that may have been there between the kids and I as they realized that I have been through hurts and trials and so I do understand where some of them are coming from. Being so raw and real in front of them was something that I think needed to happen. I have the feeling though that now that I have shared it with them I may be called upon in other circumstances to tell it again. I am okay with that. It is a story of trauma and hurt but more than that it is a story of God's amazing faithfulness and love and healing. I serve an amazing God and know I couldn't do live without Him!


Here is a song I shared with the kids at the end of it all that kind of sums everything up perfectly.

Update and Stuff

The day that I tend to dread is almost over. I love acknowledging my Mom and the amazing woman and mother that she is but this day is an in the face reminder every year that our family hasn't grown yet. I had a cry and talk with God last night while I was in the bathtub. Seems like my washroom is most definitely my prayer closet! I complained some and just asked Him to help me be strong and to trust and have hope and all of that. As I was finishing praying I had some verses come to mind.....


"You will keep him in perfect PEACE whose mind is stayed on You."


"For the Lord God is a sun and shield, He gives grace and glory, no GOOD THING will He withhold from them that walk uprightly."


"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you HOPE and a future."


The things I was praying for and asking Him about He reminded me through scripture are mine and they are what He wants for me too. Of course I have to do my part and trust and walk uprightly and keep my heart and mind stayed on the Lord and being true to Him. I am certainly learning alot through all of this! 


Chad knew today was going to be hard for me and he did the best thing he could have done this morning, asked me how I was and then hugged me as I cried a few tears. I am so incredibly blessed by that man!


I do have an update! I heard from the agency last week and we are now at #27 with 3 birthmoms who hadn't yet seen profiles. Encouraging! We moved up 3 spots in a month and should move up again right away.


Maybe next year I will be excited for this day...

Learning

Today is a cold snowy wintry day! Yes, it the 14th of April and we are having a snowstorm that is leaving quite a bit of snow in it's wake, on top of the snow that still hasn't disappeared. A good day to stay inside, do some laundry, do some housework and finally blog!


A couple of weeks ago we went to a Steven Curtis Chapman concert. It was so very good! I loved it! He is amazing live and I felt like I was living my late teens-early twenties all over again. As great as it was to hear all my favorite SCC songs and to join in and to be led in worship by him there were a couple of things that stood out to me that didn't have anything to do with music. Their family has been through alot with the accidental death of their daughter a few years ago and I was so touched by what God has done and is doing through them and in them as a result. His sons were there and they have a band of their own which opened up for Steven plus they were his band for his concert. I will post a video at the end of this of one of his new songs which they performed. It felt like an anthem, like a declaration that he and his family were making. Very powerful.


Steven told a story that struck a cord in me and it was exactly what God knew I needed to hear and I wanted to share it as I am sure it will resonate with many people and perhaps help someone else who needs to hear it...


One of Steven's little girls needed to take some medication in pill form. She had a very hard time swallowing pills and she struggled and choked and coughed and cried and tried and tried and tried. At one point she looked at him and said "Do you love me Daddy?". He said that in that instant he saw himself reflected in her eyes and in her question. How often, when we are in the depths of despair or hurting or struggling do we ask that question ourselves. "Do you love my Daddy? Do you love me God? If You do than why are You making me go through this?". He said that this time he also saw it from a different point of view....the father's. As his little girl's daddy he saw and understood how God must feel when we are in those times of struggle and we wonder if He has forgotten. Steven wanted to help his daughter, to take the hurt away, to take away the struggle and the pain and the confusion but he knew that she needed to persevere, that she needed to overcome, that she needed to go through it so she would be stronger in the end. It broke his heart to watch her but he knew that if he just made it all better she would never learn, never grow, never be stronger. 


That story hit me right where God knew it would. How often in the last few years, and especially the last few months, have I felt the same way and essentially asked the same question as Steven's little girl? I never considered it from God's point of view though. It was just feeling like it was something I had to go through just because. Never once did it dawn on me that it hurts God to see me hurting like this and that maybe He wants to make it all better but He knows that infertility/pregnancy/miscarriage is something I need to go through to make me stronger, to make me grow, to stretch me and create in me the character that needs to be there. It was actually a freeing moment for me. Of course I cried! But it felt like I finally understood something I hadn't totally understood before and it actually hurt me to think of God hurting for me. To think that He loves me so much that He just wants to take away the hurt and frustration but His love is even stronger yet and He knows I need to go through it. It makes it easier in a way. I almost feel like I can call upon Him in a different way than before just knowing that He hasn't forgotten and that He wants to see me through this and wants me to get to the other side.


Geoff Moore was also there. He and Steven have been the best of friends for over 25 years and so of course he went through their whole tragedy with them and talked about how much he has learned from just watching them and standing with them. He had a description for what they went through that has stuck with  me and changed my thinking a little. He described it as a "hard blessing". Wow. To be able to look back and call something as devastating as losing a child a hard blessing to me speaks so loudly of God's mercy and grace and goodness and love. Such a loaded phrase. Instead of calling it a tragedy or trauma or devastation and calling it a hard blessing, makes you look at things a little differently and really see how God works and moves and how we can't make it without Him. So instead of complaining and bemoaning my situation may I see it as a hard blessing. So very hard to go through but with abundant blessings in the midst of it as I lean on the Lord and experience His amazing love and faithfulness.


I learned more in that 3 hours than I have for a while and I am so thankful that we went to that concert. 


So when you are feeling as if God has forgotten and wondering if your heavenly father loves you, please remember that it hurts Him so much to see you hurting but He knows it is in your best interest to persevere. Hold to His unchanging hand and rejoice that you don't have to go through life alone. His hard blessings can change your life and create in you character that is more and more like Jesus.

Update

I have quite a bit that I want to blog about, thoughts flying around in my mind that I want to get down, but for now I am going to settle with just giving you all an update on our adoption status. Hopefully soon I will have the time to actually sit and blog!


I emailed the agency this week and found out that we are now #30 on the list! Almost out of the 30s! There are 3 couples ahead of us who have been matched with birthmoms so we should be moving up a few more spots soon. There are also a couple of birthmoms who haven't seen any profiles yet. Our profile did go out once in March which is encouraging because it should start going out more and more now.


Perhaps we will have good news this year!

Piano Therapy

I played the piano this afternoon for the first time in quite a while. I love playing my piano (even though it badly needs to be tuned!) but there are times when it is much harder for me than others. My Mom knows better than anyone that playing my piano is like a kind of therapy for me. When I am going through a tough time it helps to get lost in playing praise and worship songs. There are times though when what I am going through makes it much too hard for me play because the hurt is just too deep or the tears are too near the surface. Today I just had the sudden urge to play and so I did and I so enjoyed it.


I am not the kind of player who can play in front of others and definitely not in church. I think at times that the gift I have of being able to play was given to me as a blessing for my Mom. She used to go lay down in her bedroom and I would play for an hour or so while she rested. It took me a while to realize that's what she did but once I did it made me feel good to play for her. I think of her every time I play and I miss playing for her. Chad hasn't heard me play many times but the last time he did he and Finlay just sat on the loveseat and let the music relax them. So I guess my gift can be used to bless him too.


I used to sit, when no one was home, and just play whatever my fingers felt like playing. There was nothing quite like sitting at the piano in the living room in our house in the country, with sun streaming in the windows and the birds singing outside, and knowing that the only One hearing me was God and it was at times like that when everything that was in my heart came out through my fingers. It wasn't something I could write down and it never sounded the same but it was like a way of praising God that just flowed from my heart. As I said, a type of therapy for me.


Today I played from some of my old songbooks. The ones with the good old praise and worship songs. You know, I really do like so many of the new songs that have come out and there are some writers who are so anointed, but there is just something about those old songs. Part of it is memories and sentiments but so much of it is their simplicity and yet their depth of feeling and meaning. I wish at times that we would sing some of the old songs. Here are a couple that touched me today...


I just want to praise You
Lift my hands and say "I love You"
You are everything to me
And I exalt Your holy name
I exalt Your holy name
I exalt Your holy name on high.


And....


One thing is needful, oh my Father
One thing is needful, oh my Lord
That I sit at Your feet and pour out my love
This thing is needful, oh my Lord.


There are so many more, so many that say it so simply and yet are so true. 


I am thankful for my piano, thankful for the lessons my parents let me take, thankful that it is a gift I can use to bless the people I love and so thankful that God speaks to me and brings healing and life and joy when I sit and play and listen.

Update

Just a quick little update to let you all know that in the last month we have moved up two spots on the waiting list! Slow but sure. So we are now at #32. Of course we could still get a call at any time but it is still encouraging to know that we have moved even a little bit.

Faithful

I have never tried posting a song before and so I hope this works! I bought a Steven Curtis Chapman CD today and heard this song for the first time. I cried all the way through it but at the same time felt like I wanted to be back in my meadow in BC spinning in a circle with my arms open wide singing this song. Yeah, it gave me that feeling, with tears streaming down my face. It speaks my heart and knowing that it comes from the heart of a man who lost a daugher in a tragic accident makes it even more meaningful.

Turn your volume up and feel the power and the assurance in knowing that no matter what God is faithful and that is an anthem that needs to be sung again and again!

Fill Me With Hope

I don't think is a coincidence that I decided to start out this year reading through a devotional titled "Fill Me With Hope". God knew I was going to need it to start the year with.


It has been a rollercoaster ride around here for the last couple of weeks. Chad and I had some wonderful news that we were just starting to share with everyone. We told our immediate families and were planning on letting everyone else know this week. We were pregnant! Finally! After 4 years of hoping and praying and trying we were going to have a baby! Then on Saturday I started cramping and bleeding and by Monday morning knew that I had miscarried. I was not quite 6 weeks along. Oh the emotions! The ups and downs in 2 weeks that we have experienced. It is an understatement to say that it hasn't been easy and would be a lie if I said that I am okay. For the most part I am. There are many things to be thankful for in all of this. I realize though that it's okay to let myself cry and grieve and miss my baby and acknowledge that there is a part of me that feels empty. Chad has also been struggling and we had a good talk the other night and agreed that we need to take the time to grieve but then we need to have hope again. We don't want to dwell on the sadness and disappointment of it all. This is what we want to concentrate on instead.....


We got pregnant! After so long and really feeling like maybe it couldn't happen and never would, it did! We will absolutely try again. Part of me is scared to try I will admit. I don't want to go through this again. I also realize though that I am not God and so I am not in control of what happens. It is my job to keep myself healthy and strong and to trust and have hope! 


All through this trial and sorrow there have been things to be thankful for: thankful that I wasn't farther along when it happened, thankful that my parents haven't left for vacation yet and that Chad wasn't away on a business trip, thankful that my place of employment is willing to let me work from home this week, thankful for my sis-in-law who has offered words of advice and encouragement, thankful for friends and family who are praying for us and supporting us, thankful for the way Chad and I have grown even closer together, thankful for a husband who knows to just let me cry and who hugs me and just wants to be with me, thankful for a puppy who keeps me company and is ultra sensitive to my moods and emotions, thankful for the sun that was finally shining yesterday.


I can tend to let depression get hold of me at times. It is something that I have never fully given into but that I know I struggle with and I have made a determination in my heart to not let that happen. My God is too big and too strong and too mighty to do that. No, I don't understand why it had to happen and yes, it hurts alot, but God has a plan and to that I hold and trust and have to believe. And so I think upon those things that are good and pure and true and lovely and full of hope. 


I would ask for your prayers as tomorrow we go for an ultrasound to confirm everything and to make sure that my body is cleansing itself. Pray for us as we pick up the pieces and carry on with life having loved and lost but being so thankful for the time we did have. It was a great two weeks and we are holding to the hope that God will allow it to happen again and will see it through to the end.


My prayer continually right now is that God will Fill Me With Hope.

And so another year begins.....

I made a determination in my heart last night. We were on our way home after spending a fun evening at my parents' place with my whole family and I had a little time to think on the 30 minute drive home. I started thinking about this past year and then about the year to come. I thought about how, if I let myself, I could be pretty depressed about this past year and the fact that I am still not a mom. The one thing that I so badly hoped would happen in 2010 didn't come to pass. But then I thought, I don't want to be depressed, I don't want to focus on the negative. So I made a determination in my heart to think of all the blessings that happened in this last year.....


-A new member of the family was born, wonderful little Rhyan. So hard to believe she is almost a year old already! With Rhyan's birth the count in nieces and nephews is up to 14!
-Becoming involved with an exciting new church plant. Finding a church family where we don't just feel like we belong but where we are needed and encouraged to use the gifts God has given us and in that being challenged and growing and just wanting to learn more,.
-Time out at the lake with family, even though almost every time we went to the lake there ended up being a storm! My parents may want to rethink their invitation to go out whenever we want!
-A good friend, who is beautiful and inspiring, finally finding the love of her life after waiting for much longer than I had to. What a delight to see the joy, love and peace in her countenance, as well as the rock on her finger!
-Seeing 2 nieces and 1 nephew hit 'double digit' birthdays this year and one niece enter the teen years. What a blessing to have another year with all of them!
-God providing a new job for me that pays better, has great hours and consists of the kind of work I enjoy doing. And of course He provided it just when I needed it!
-Chad getting a well deserved raise!
-My Gramma finally having cataract surgery and, while she still can't read, her eyesight has improved. She is going to be 91 in 9 days!
-My parents moving into a new place that suits them and that I realized in a strange way feels like home. I know it is because they are there and they are the heart of their home but it's still strange to have a brand new place that I have never lived in feel in a way like home. So happy for them!


I am sure there is so much more that I am not thinking of right now. So many things to be thankful for and so many blessings to be counted. Of course I am beyond thankful for my own little family. For our puppy who some moments causes me great frustration but the majority of the time just fills our home with life and laughter and brings the stress down in our lives. For my amazing husband.....I was thinking this morning what a remarkable thing it is to have such security and confidence in knowing he loves me, he likes me, he wants to be with me, and he will care for me always. He is without a doubt one of the most amazing blessings in my life.


The most humbling, encouraging and joyous blessing in my life though? Knowing and being known by a God who sent His only Son to die for me. Knowing that His grace is sufficient. Knowing that even though I may ask the 'how' and 'why' of things it really doesn't matter because He has the answers and in that I can (should) trust. Knowing that He knows the deepest parts of my heart and loves me still and that because of that love He doesn't let me stay depressed or sad but at the most out of the blue moments He sends something or someone into my path to remind me again that He loves me, He understands, and He hasn't forgotten.


2010 was a good year all in all. There were tears and laughter, joys and sorrows, frustrations and victories. I am expecting the same of 2011. Perhaps there will be joyous news, perhaps there will just be more waiting. But one thing I know, no matter the year, the month or the day, my God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. He is ever faithful and true. And so I look forward to this next year, to growing and being challenged and seeing God in the joys as well as the sorrows. I look forward to more time with family and friends, to seeing others start out on their own new journeys, like my beautiful niece Kayla who is graduating this year! I look forward to living in the promises of God that He will never leave me or forsake me. I look forward to the laughter as well as the tears because I realize what a huge blessing it is just to BE. To be living this life God has blessed me with, to be who He has and is making me to be, to be loved and to love in return.


Happy New Year to all of you! May the next year be filled with growth, with a new awareness of your many blessings and perhaps even an awareness of the many different ways you can be a blessing to others. 


God bless you in 2011!

Home Sweet Home

In the last couple of weeks Chad and I have been blessed to be part of an experience through church that has really touched us both. As Chad said last night "Everyone should have to do something like this". Crosspoint has chosen a shelter here in the city to support financially and in any other way that we as a church can. It is a new shelter that just this year has been granted permission to also be a warming centre which means they will open earlier and stay open later so that when it is so cold the homeless have somewhere to go and stay warm. The church has offered to help cover their extra expenses when it comes to their utilities for those months they are open extra hours. There is also a team from the church going there on the 28th to cook a turkey dinner for some of the needy families. Plus there will be gifts taken to the shelter. The part in all of this that has touched Chad and I so deeply is there was an opportunity to choose either a needy family to make up a hamper for or a homeless person to make up a backpack for. We chose to do the backpack. 
The man we chose is 43 years old and his name is Craig. We will probably never see him face to face and he will never know any more about us than that we go to Crosspoint and what our first names are. We were given a list of ideas of what to fill his backpack with. A backpack filled with warmth. So we went shopping. We bought a backpack, long underwear, a fur lined hat, fleece pants, mitts, undershirts, Chad went through his clothes and found some long sleeve shirts and a sweater, (a friend donated another warm sweater), wool socks, boxer shorts, shaving supplies, toothpaste and toothbrush, lip balm, lotion, deodorant, goodies like chocolate and granola bars, etc. We have put out quite a bit of money for all of this but it still doesn't feel like enough. 
If you are like Chad and I and have never worked with homeless people or had experiences with them you will understand when I say that as we shopped for all these items we were really struck with what being homeless might be like. It affected every decision we made for what we bought for him and we didn't really care how much it cost. As Chad said last night he feels bad doing it, bad because we have so much, so many things, we want for nothing. I was in Walmart yesterday looking for some decent wool socks that wouldn't be too itchy or uncomfortable and would still be warm and all of a sudden I just felt overwhelmed with it all, with what I was really doing and why, and I had to get myself under control because all I could think about was the fact that I was buying these socks for someone who has nothing, for someone who will most likely treasure the things we are giving him as we would treasure an expensive new car or house or computer or whatever and yet he will be genuinely grateful and not take it for granted. I could have just sat down right there and cried and prayed for him. 
I am going to wash all of the clothes tomorrow and make them smell all clean and fresh. I am going to enjoy putting everything together for Craig and praying over everything and pouring lots of love into it. My hope and my prayer is not just that he will be warm this winter or that the clothes will fit or that he isn't allergic to nuts but that it will all bring a smile to his face and a little joy to his heart and that he will feel the love that is going into it all and that he will know we are thinking of him and praying for him and that God loves him more than he will ever be able to comprehend. That when he is having a down day and feeling unloved and forgotten he will remember these two people whom he has never met and that they reached out to try and make his days and nights a little easier and warmer, that he will wonder what it is that would inspire them to do something like this and that he would find God in it all and know that God is there waiting for him.
On Sunday everyone who chose a hamper or backpack is supposed to take it back to the church where they are going to pile everything up and have some people pray over them, including some of the children and youth. Yes, I will be taking lots of kleenex with me! 
I would encourage all of you to take the time to truly be thankful for all that God has blessed you with. As I sit here right now I wonder where Craig is and if he is warm and if he knows that he is special and loved and I am so incredibly thankful for my quilt, my sofa, my clothes, my home sweet home.

Miracles and Thankfulness and How Great is Our God!

There are times in my life when it seems like God uses people, words, circumstances, songs, what have you, to get my attention and speak to my heart and that has been happening in the last few days.
The first thing was that I received a card in the mail from my Mom and on the front of the card it says "Every sunrise is proof that God is still in the miracle business". On the inside she wrote words of encouragement and love and reminded me that she is praying for me and hoping with me. It seems like whenever I am going through a hard time I never have to tell her. She just knows. And she prays for me. I am sure there is a lot in my life that hasn't happened or has happened or things I have been saved from and help that I have gotten that has all happened because she prays. I also believe that I will never know how many hours she has prayed for me. I do know though that I am so thankful that she IS praying and hoping and that she is such a huge source of support. Thank you Mom. Thank you for the reminder, for your words, for your prayers, for your love. Love you.
The second thing was reading a post by a young woman who is doing her DTS with YWAM in Mexico. Her post was titled "Turn that frown upside down". The whole post was so good and it was challenging. There was one sentence that jumped right off the page at me and the sentence was "I don't want to waste any more time complaining about the things that God has blessed me with". Ouch! It is so true though! How often do I let my longing to be a mommy and to hold my baby cloud my eyes and heart from seeing the many blessings I already have. Instead of living in the moment and being thankful and in awe of all that God has done I long and yearn and at times cry and get frustrated. May I not waste any more time! Instead of taking my blessings for granted and longing for more may I be so aware of this life I have and the privilege I have of living it! 
The third was a song that we sang in church this morning. We had communion in church today and it is always an emotional time for me. I love how we have been doing it there because the worship team leads us in worship and as we feel led we can individually go and take the emblems, spend time in private prayer and then partake as we feel led. It is a much more intimate time between us and the Lord, so very personal. One of the songs sung during that time is one of my favourite worship songs right now. The song is "How Great is Our God" by Chris Tomlin. It was just such a strong reminder to me today that no matter what is going on in my life my heart can still sing how great is our God! I am including the lyrics here for you to read and to remind you that He is worthy of our praise, His name is above all names and that no matter the circumstances our hearts can sing about His greatness. 
As I head into this next week with it's stresses and busyness, and knowing that I am still waiting to be a mommy, I am going to try and remember all God has shown me the last few days. May I live in the awareness that God is great, that He is still in the miracle business and may I remember to be thankful for all His amazing blessings.


How Great is Our God


The splendor of the King, clothed in majesty 
Let all the earth rejoice 
All the earth rejoice 

He wraps himself in Light, and darkness tries to hide 
And trembles at His voice 
Trembles at His voice 

How great is our God, sing with me 
How great is our God, and all will see 
How great, how great is our God 

Age to age He stands 
And time is in His hands 
Beginning and the end 
Beginning and the end 

The Godhead Three in One 
Father Spirit Son 
The Lion and the Lamb 
The Lion and the Lamb 

How great is our God, sing with me
How great is our God, and all will see
How great, how great is our God

Name above all names 
Worthy of all praise 
My heart will sing 
How great is our God 

Name above all names
Worthy of all praise
My heart will sing
How great is our God

How great is our God, sing with me 
How great is our God, and all will see 
How great, how great is our God