A Hidden God

I found it interesting today to learn that God hides himself. I had never really associated hiding with my concept of who God is. I often wonder how very little I know of Him. How deep He feels? Fathomless--and how we grieve Him. Why does He hide himself? I don't know. But this I love, about this verse: the subject line is "thou art a God that hidest thyself the Saviour".

Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.

Isa 45:15

Word of the Day - Guttersnipe

The word of the day in the London Free Press was

Guttersnipe

Definition: someone of low unregenerable economic and moral status.

So, we (at work on break) were really curious....Where did the word "snipe"come from?....I figured it was of an old norse root.... but what is a snipe?

Thanks to my co-worker, we found out that a snipe is in fact a bird!

Function: noun

Etymology: Middle Englishcandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse snīpa snipe; akin to Old High German snepfa snipe Date: 14th century

1 or plural snipe : any of various usually slender-billed birds of the sandpiper family;especially : any of several game birds (especially genus Gallinago) especially of marshy areas

Ever seen the movie UP? Cartoon about an elderly man and his grand adventure to South American.

A little boy scout spends a lot of the movie looking for the Snipe.

I enjoyed the "snipe hunt" in the movie, but didn't know it was a real bird... haha.... anyways, so you all now know... A Snipe.

"Here snipe, here snipe!" (Clap, Clap)

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son.

I returned,

and saw under the sun,

that the race is not to the swift,

nor the battle to the strong,

neither yet bread to the wise,

nor yet riches to men of understanding,

nor yet favour to men of skill;

but time and chance happeneth to them all.

Ecc 9:11

"She shall not be moved"

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Therefore we will not fear,-- though the earth be removed,

and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled,

though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.

Selah.

There is a river,

the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God,

the holy place

of the tabernacles of the most High.

God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved:

God shall help her, and that right early.

The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted. The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth. He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.

"Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen,

I will be exalted in the earth. "

The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

Psalm 46