I Saw God Today

by George Strait

Just walked down the street to the coffee shop
Had to take a break
I've been by her side for 18 hours straight
Saw a flower growing in the middle of a sidewalk
Pushing up through the concrete
Like it was planted right there for me to see
The flashing lights, the honking horns
All seemed to fade away
In the shadow of that hospital at 508
I saw God today.

Chorus:
I've been to church, I've read the book
I know he's here but I don't look
Near as often as I should (Yeah I know I should)
His fingerprints are everywhere
I just slowed down to stop and stare
Opened my eyes and man I swear
I saw God today.

Saw a couple walking by
They were holding hands
Man she had that glow
Yeah I couldn't help but notice she was starting to show
Stood there for a minute taking in the sky
Lost in that sunset
A splash of amber melted into shades of red.

Chorus:
I've been to church, I've read the book
I know he's here but I don't look
Near as often as I should (Yeah I know I should)
His fingerprints are everywhere
I just slowed down to stop and stare
Opened my eyes and man I swear
I saw God today.

Got my face pressed up against the nursery glass
She's sleeping like a rock
My name on her wrist wearing tiny pink socks
She's got my nose, she's got her mamas eyes
My brand new baby girl
She's a miracle
I saw God today...

Comments

[Heather]

I have heard this song on the radio and enjoyed it. babies is not the only time I see god its also through peoples kindness and on the nature walk I take mostly when I can see the mountains driving down the word.

I would like to comment about another song

BROOKS & DUNN LYRICS - GOD MUST BE BUSY

That anchor man says the fight began
somewhere in the Middle East.
The world prays for peace.
There’s a single mom just got laid off when she lost a job
to some foreign hands in some faraway land.
Last night in Oklahoma some twister took thirteen
and they’re praying that they find the missing three.
God must be busy.

That highway sign went from slow ahead
to traffic’s dead.
Thought it couldn’t get worse than that Amber Alert.
They say she’s 4,
Colorado plates, headed out-of-state in a Chevy van.
It’s hard to understand.
You can see it in the faces of all those highway strangers,
they’re praying that God keeps that girl from danger.
God must be busy.

And I know in the big picture
I’m just a speck of sand
and God’s got better things to do
than look out for one man.
I know he’s heard my prayers
cause he hears everything,
he just ain’t answered back
or he’d bring you back to me.
God must be busy.

That evening news,
Ain’t much changed
pretty much the same
since I left home.
Yeah that war’s still on.
They found that little girl.
She was soaking wet,
half scared to death
on the side of some road.
Them prayers work, you know.
And the Bloods and Cripps are at it,
and theres a killer drought down south,
and old folks can’t afford the drugs
they can’t live with out.
God must be busy.

And I know in the big picture
I’m just a speck of sand
and God’s got better things to do
than look out for one man.
I know he’s heard my prayers
cause he hears everything,
he just ain’t answered back
or he’d bring you back to me.
God must be busy.

That anchorman,
says the fightings worse,
cities burn in the Middle East.
The world prays for peace

I like Brooks & Dunn but I don't like this song everytime i hear it on the radio I turn the channel because with choices there will be pain and suffering but we still have the freedom of choice to lead gods path and join him in even when its our time..

Sometimes I wonder if they are trying to make a point with this song or if they really believe god must be busy?

[sheri]

this past 2 days have been some of the hardest my family has walked through. this this somewhat pit of hell, i have seen God all over. each person He placed to be at a specific place at a specific time to be there to catch us when we were literally collapsing. the amazing love that flows for the believers at our church. the support when things get ugly. the provision needed right at the right time. peace in the midst of hell on earth. that heaven on earth a few posts back. the physical arms that held my family on tuesday absolutely felt like God's big arms around me. i saw Him and felt Him everywhere.
question to britany...any sightings of God in Mexico? was that amazing or what?

[Susan]

I can't wait to hear about the Mexico trip! Sheri, it sounds like you are being attacked spiritually right after you came back from the mission trip. I'll be praying for you! Stay strong and keep your eyes focused heavenward!

[Britttany Weideman]

The Trip was great and everything, but I didn't see God to tell you the truth. I was so upset towards the end of the trip because it seemed like all the other women saw him, or felt something while they were on the trip. But I didn't. Sure I said I had a hard time leaving the orphanage, and other stuff. But I didn't mean it. I hate it. I was wondering why everyone else felt something, and I couldn't. I keep asking myself what is wrong with me? Why am I not shedding a tear like the others, why am I not sensitive, and why can't I feel what the others felt? I still can't feel a thing. I just think back and say, "oh, just built a home for a family." Or "it was fun hanging with the kids, but got to go." I feel so insensitive and I can't understand why. I wanted to see or feel God, but I couldn't. Why was I so unemotional during the trip?

[Susan]

Brittany, I don't think anything is wrong with you. You might have been too busy building the house and hanging out with the kids to notice how God moved but as you think back on the trip you might realize that you did see things that could only have been orchestrated by God.

I loved both my trips to Uganda but I felt like I saw more of God's hand in the second one. Does that mean the first trip was a failure? NO! As I reminsence about both trips, I can pinpoint events that could only have happened through God. I think that I was probably more impacted during this second trip than a few other team members were. I don't see any problem with that. On the plane ride home from the first trip, God transformed my heart and changed it to be more missional. Since I had a transformed heart(and had experienced Kasitu once already), I was able to view things differently than the people that had come for their first time. It is an overwhelming experience viewing the area, its people, and its lack of what we consider necessities.

Brittany, maybe you just had to get adjusted to this new surrounding. If you are able to go on another trip there, you will not be as in awe of the surrounding(or lack of things) so you will be able to see more at the spiritual level.

[Brittany]

Hey Susan. You were right. You did make a comment right after me. But any who, I have been looking back, but can't see how God played a role in it. It's irritating. I've given up searching for God. It's getting harder and harder for me to believe. My Aunt and I have been discussing things about God, and all I have been doing is ignoring and saying it isn't real. I feel bad hurting her feelings. I just didn't want to here it at the time, and I still don't. I'm struggling at the moment, and asking myself if I should stop going to the church and the college and career? I know that is not the answerer to things, but it's awkward for me to go every time when everyone talks about God and how he helps everyone. Sorry guys.

[Brittany]

I have something that happened to me the other night. I would have told everyone tonight, but we didn't really have time, and I got too nervous when we were showing pictures from the Mexico trip. But last night driving home from the movie theatre. I asked God to become part of my life.
All last week was just horrible for me. I couldn't focus. I was too tired to work, and had all these thoughts going in circles in my mind.
So Saturday night, I asked myself why I have to be so stubborn. Why do I feel like I would lose my Pride if I ask God into my life? I looked back at my children hood and realized why it was holding me back. My parents always told me to tough it out and not to cry. Be strong. So I had set that into my mind, to tough everything out on my own. It always seemed like I was disappointing my parents and I always hated to see that disappointing look on their face. Seemed like I could never do anything right, and seemed like they never believed I could do anything on my own. I was always that kid no one really liked, but talked to me anyways. I tried hard to be liked, by being some one who I wasn't. I use to suck at sports. I had to work twice as hard as the other girls to catch up to them, and when I finally did for softball and made All Stars, I got sports asthma. I was so frustrated. I already had to work harder to catch up, and in order to keep up, I had to work even harder. And for volleyball, I was good but never good enough to make the team. In High School I was on the C Team every year and it hurt. I thought of all these things and cried while driving home. All my life I tried so hard to fit in, or tried so hard to keep up with each sport, and so hard to prove to my parents that I will not fail, and I can do things on my own. But I realized that I wasn’t trying to prove this to my parents anymore. I was trying to prove it to myself. And I used all of my bad memories to remind me to try harder, and to not let whatever makes me weak like what this use to make me weak. But I realized that I don’t want this anymore. I don't want to remind me of my past anymore. I can't keep on living life doing everything on my own, and using the past to motivate me. I would rather be relieved of the past and move onto bigger and better things in my life, and I need to finally let go of this so called "pride." I don’t want to be angry or frustrated anymore. I’m tired of always feeling like this, and tired of looking at the past. And as I was thinking all of this and crying in my car, I notice the road and the things around it looked funny in a way. Just like everything around me was slow motion and moving very slowly to a side and it sort of felt or looked like a dream in a way. I'm not sure if I'm describing it right, but it was strange, but in a good way. But right after I asked God into my life, I felt so relieved and felt lighter in away. God just lifted all of my worries and pain away. It felt amazing.

[Trevor]

Congrats Brittany, sounds like you had a god moment. I was in the same boat as you with my past and even though I dedicated my life to a higher being I always struggled with my past, it is something that just has to be let go. Give it all to God, he can and is willing to take all of our pain away if we just ask him to. Just today I finally came to to God and laid down my sin that the devil planted in my life. In the army I was in so much physical, emotional and spiritual pain that I just wanted it all to go away, I was willing to do anything to make it stop. I figuired that the easiest way to feel better was to get out of the army. So the most effective way to get booted was to attempt suicide so without much thought I went all in not caring if anything bad happened to me, being completly selfish I tried. Took two bottles of naproxen and just waited. Luckily God was watching over me and protected me. When my superiors found out I was sent to a psychiatrist and ended up getting a referrel for discharge. It wasn't until I got home did it all hit me, how weak I was for not caring about what happened to my eternal soul. This brought a God drought where I could not see anything Holy about myself. Month after month I was down on myself just pretending everything was alright trying to fit in with my old crowd. This seemed to make everything worse and I began wondering if I was right back at Ft. Leonard Wood. Wondering if there was even a reason I was here. I stopped going to church for several weeks because it seemed as though I was just wasting my time. But then last tuesday one of my old friends asked me to go to a youth group in Fall City with him and because I hadn't seen him in several months I took him up on his offer. That night I was just floored by God's beauty and I began to turn around and see him again. Slowely I have been taking steps back and I now as Brennan Manning was speaking I felt as though I could tell God anything and he would take the pain away so I went for it and now I feel a million times better. I feel as though that mistake is finaly behind me and I can share and learn from it now and not let it hold me back in my relationship with God because he is a loving God quick to forgive and when we lay ourselves down in front of Him we will be blessed. So as I take a step towards living in humility for Him I tell my tale to you and everyone on this blog. We all have rough spots and the closer you get to God the harder the Devil will attack you but remember God is ready and will soon stamp out the Devil for good. Just hold on and remeber He and everyone at C&C are here for you.

[Susan]

Congratulations, Brittany! I'm so happy for you! That is definitely a life changing decision that you made! As Trevor attested to in his entry and Sheri last night, the road is not paved with gold. There are going to be bumps in the pot-holed road.

Great job not giving up on sports even when you were on the C team! I applaud you for that. I only went out for one sport in high school because I knew I wasn't athletic. It happened to be softball my sophomore year and that was only because my best friend wanted to do it. We both were on the C team. Her family moved away halfway through the season. You can't imagine how hard it was to finish out the season being the only sophomore on the team with several popular freshman(who were my younger sister's classmates)! Seeing how good you are at most of the sports we play on Sunday nights, it surprises me that you were not an athlete in high school.

I love College and Career, as well as SVA, because you can be yourself and not worry about people laughing at you or making fun of you behind your back(even if you stink at some sports like I do). I'm so glad we have the group that we do! Every week, I look forward to hanging out with the group.

[Sarah]

Congratulations Brittany!!!!

I was so excited when I read your post. It's amazing what God can do isn't it?!

I thought it was realy intresting reading your previous post, where you seemed really down, questioning and thinking of giving up, then to read this post!!!

WOW!!!!

I am really proud of you. I have seen so much growth in you, in the short time I have known you.

I am really glad you shared your Scars story. I know how hard and scary that was!!

[sheri]

i am so proud of Sarah, Brittany and Chris for sharing their scars stories last night. it took a lot of courage to be that vulnerable and raw. God is using your stories for you and people God brought there just to hear your story.
thank you so much for being a huge part of what happened at scars

[Susan]

I'm really sad I missed it! I was at school until quarter to 7 setting up for yesterday's Science Fair. The Fair went well! I was praying for the service throughout the evening. Sheri, were you able to tape it? If so, I want to see it.

[sheri]

it was not taped and i wish it was :(

[Susan]

Prayer works!!! (After all that I’ve seen God do in my life, did I even need to doubt?) On my way home from school this afternoon, I stopped by Bell Square in order to get the issue resolved. It took longer than I thought it would, but they admitted that it was their fault and it should be cleared from the collection agency and off of my credit record within the next couple days. God is good, all the time! Thanks for your prayers!

Also, a God thing happened to me this morning. During my Bible reading this morning in 2 Samuel, there was a short devotional on the pages that I was reading in my One Year Bible. The devotional ended by telling me to “Stop and think of one specific act that you can do today that would be mighty in God’s eyes. (Remember, even a cup of cold water given in his name will not go unrewarded.)” I was wondering what God would lead me to do today. Not even an hour later, my cell phone rang. It was an administrator from school asking if I would be able to open the main building and run the childcare until 7:45. The person who normally does this had a flat tire. I have filled in a few times before but I wasn’t expecting today’s prayer to be answered so quickly. Now I challenge each of you to see what small specific act that you can do in Jesus’ name.

[Nathan Tobey]

I never post on this blog and I've been saving it up. Not really, actually. Just with everything going on I haven't been in a place to write.
Speaking of seeing God, I would like to share two ways that I grew in understanding, love and respect for God. Both of them having to do with our babies -the one that made it and the one that died.
When Kath and I lost our child last in Sept of 2006 we were heartbroken. We cried together for several days. Honestly, I cried so hard at times I couldn't even breath. I remember the day after I found out the baby had miscarried I woke up and took a miserable shower. We were going in a few hours to take Katherine into surgery to remove the corpse so to speak. I was in agony, I wanted more than anything for it to be the prior day- I would be showering, our baby would be alive and all would be right in our lives. Amazing what a difference 24 hours can make! I remember laying in bed, tears streaming down my face and crying out to Jesus. I just told him how much pain I was in and how I hurt inside to the point of sickness. It was then that I really realized what Christ took to the cross. I remembered that he took my pain to the cross and it was a great deal of pain- unbearable for me. Then the thought came to me that Jesus took the pain of the entire world to the cross. He took all the sin, dirtiness, agony and falleness of our world and died with it. If my pain seemed unbearable, I could not imagine how it must have felt to carry the world's pain. My love for Christ exploded at that moment. Oh how much it must have hurt Jesus to have that on his shoulders as he died- all of God's righteous wrath poured out onto him! No wonder he cried out, "Father, why have you forsaken me!" I think I grasped more of Jesus in that painful moment than I have ever held in 30 years of life. I realized just how faithful he was to look at all that pain and agony and still drink the cup. Lamb in the slaying but a lion in the drinking.
Fast forward to last week. As my baby was being born, in the instant she was released from the bonds of my wife's body, my heart gushed forward with more love than I could imagine. It was if my capability to love was like a resevoir that flooded and the dams broke. I'd never even seen my baby before, but at that moment I realized how much parents can love. My intrigue and respect for my wife solidified with her waning pain. I was in a realm I'd never walked before. Again, that day God came rushing into my world with a thought that taught me a lesson that you cannot learn in a classroom or seminar. When I realized how much I loved my new daughter I got a glimpse of how much the Father loved the Son. God risked everything on us! He gave us His son! Do you realize how much God gave up when he made Jesus our ram? I got to taste a piece of that and my respect, reverence and love for God grew even more that day. I realized what it cost God to deliver us from sin.
Seeing God can come in all forms. He is here and everywhere. He is in our deepest pain and sorrow and he also dwells in our greatest joys. Do we think anything has come to us apart from what He allows? He saturates our lives, constantly trying to get our attention so that He can show us how much he loves us. He took all YOUR pain, sin and sorrow to the cross. He gave up His child for YOUR life that you may have joy and communion with him.

[Nathan Tobey]

All right, I guess I wasn't done posting yet.
You guys are really amazing. I will never accuse any of you of being fake or superficial. Either in this blog or at scars, you unselfishly lay your hearts out there for everyone to see and may I say, taste.
In Trevor's story, Britt's story- I see God seeking. He is the Hound of Heaven (a great poem to read another day) and he seeks you in the deep, dark places as well as the mountain tops. He didn't let you go and he didn't hold you randsom with your past. He just accepts us. He just pulled you into a life with him.
I get so sick of skin deep "church life" that I find this C&C group so refreshing. I admire your comments and your boldness.
So here is my question for you. Now that you've had a visceral, authentic life story, how can you use those difficult moments to help other people? Can you talk about your painful past, knowing that God has redeemed it, in order to relate to others with similar struggles?
There is no answer. I am just curious. Because in some ways (like with the miscarraige story)our painful moments are our most poignant testimony.

[Monty]

Thanks for your heart Nate! You are about to walk into some holy producing aspects of life with your baby girl! You will feel, experience, all of life rather differently...the experiences in your first 30 years will pale to what is ahead, good and difficult.

May you and Kathryn be flooded with joy...

monty