Sometimes, at the end of a perfectly good day that the Lord has made, my soul is rumpled with all sorts of, well, bad attitude. (Wasn’t it just this morning that I prayed, in front my little accountability partners, “Lord, thank You that we can start the day declaring Your lovingkindness, and thank You that tonight we’ll be able to proclaim Your faithfulness”? Well, that’s not exactly where my evening was heading.)

Sometimes, I wander into the entry to put a finally stamped and addressed envelope on the front table, and I hear the song Ryan’s playing in his office as he works.

Sometimes, I sit right down and happily say, “Yes. Please. An attitude check, and soul realignment, and some Truth and Reality, please.”

And the Holy Spirit does that. Right here, right in my house — the one I was just complaining is such a mess. He comes in, anyway, and does His thing.

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[the song:]

At the start
He was there, He was there
In the end,
He’ll be there, He’ll be there

And after all our hands have wrought
He forgives

Oh the Glory of it all is:
He came here
For the rescue of us all
that we may live
for the glory of it all
for the glory of it all

All is lost
find Him there, find Him there
After night
Dawn is there, Dawn is there

After all falls apart
He repairs He repairs

Oh the Glory of it all is:
He came here
for the rescue of us all
that we may live
for the glory of it all

oh He is here
for redemption from the fall
that we may live
for the glory of it all
oh the glory of it all
the glory of it all
oh the glory of it all

After night
comes the light
dawn is here
dawn is here
it’s a new day
it’s a new day
everything will change
things will never be the same
we will never be the same…

Oh, the glory of it all is
You came here
for the rescue of us all
that we may live
for the glory of it all

Oh You are here
with redemption for us all
that we may live
for the glory of it all
for the glory of it all
oh the glory of it all