Hymn for a beautiful vacation!

This Hymn has been playing in my head during this vacation in Wisconsin:


FOR THE BEAUTY OF THE EARTH
Words by F. S. Pierpoint; Music by John Rutter


For the beauty of the earth,
For the beauty of the skies,
For the love
Which from our birth
Over and around us lies:
Lord of all, to Thee we raise
This our joyful hymn of praise.

For the beauty of each hour,
Of the day and of the night,
Hill and vale,
and tree and flower,
Sun and moon and stars of light:
Lord of all, to Thee we raise
This our joyful hymn of praise.

For the joy of human love,
Brother, sister, parent, child,
Friends on earth
And friends above
For all gentle thoughts and mild:
Lord of all, to Thee we raise
This our joyful hymn of praise.

For each perfect gift of Thine,
To our race so feeely given,
Graces,
human and divine
Flow'rs of earth and buds of heavn'n:
Lord of all, to Thee we raise
This our joyful hymn of praise.

This our joyful hymn of praise.

I know its people w Guns, Not the Guns that are BAD, but....

....this is so terribly surreal....I know TWO people who were shot to death this week! In ONE FREAKING WEEK, TWO people I know were killed by guns...WHAT THE FUDGE!!?!?

okay, i'm just so terribly sad and this is really hurting my soul and heart. What kind of screwed up world is this!?!? and neither was exactly "crime-related" or "gang-related"...one involved a friend who is mentally ill and the other was a father who shot his own SON! how in the world do these things happen?

I know I live in such a glass bubble and I'm thanking my lucky stars that I do live in this bubble and that my children are protected from "most" of the craziness...

not much else to say...i'm just sort of in a state of shock....

Oh, well the important thing to say is: "Please remember those we have lost this week and pray that comfort will soon soothe their families' and friends' hearts."

No Blog Posts in May--a good thing!

So I didn't post in May ..... that probably means that May was a GREAT month...b/c I was out there LIVING and not sitting here pondering what living was or should be or why i'm so worried about living.....

Quinn just walked in here and said (looking at the screen): "Say that July's gonna be a good month, too"...I said, "HEY! Can you read and your are just pretending NOT TO!!?!??!" (july will be good for her b/c its her bday month).

So just a short thing to say life has been good VERY GOOD lately.

I made 66 posts in 2009...obviously a BAD SUCKY year...only 40 in 2010...maybe I can post more positively and HOPEFULLY I will be too busy out there LIVING and not sitting here pondering what living was or should be or why i'm so worried about living.....

maybe i'm getting farther (or is it further?) on my road to SAGACITY!?!?!?