Salty Sound Girl
Issac Watts, 1760
Hello! Glad you stopped by. I’m a salty “Sound-Girl”, writing from the Puget Sound region, in WA state. I’m also known as Kristen.
In our corner of the world, we enjoy mountains, wildlife, and salty waterways surrounded by evergreen trees. When the sun is shining and the sky is blue, it’s easy to “sound forth” our praises to God.
However, in the rainy season, it’s a different story. For nearly 7 months, we endure endless grey skies, drippy lichen hanging from the abundant alder, and rainy day after rainy day.
Sounds a lot like life. Days of rejoicing, days of hardship. And within every day, lies an opportunity, a welcome, from God Himself.
We are invited, we humans, precious in His sight. We are invited to seek Him, to care about what He cares about, to be included into His family. We are invited to know God, and the Lord Jesus, whom he has sent. We are invited to love.
Choose a book to read from the Book Reviews, or scroll through the blogs. Click on the Playlist, and add your voice, as we sound forth His praise, on days both bright and gloomy.
We sing to Him out of gratitude for Who He is and what He has done. In creating the world and all that is in it, the universe and the laws we will never understand, He demonstrated His supremacy and glory.
Just as Christ’s body lay in his tomb for three days, even so, for three days, a blinded Saul dwelt in darkness.
When God came down as a human baby, Light flooded this world like never before. His presence, His light, broke into this grim, dark world. The light of the world had arrived.
The lyrics bring the worshipper into a place of relinquishment, humbly offering oneself to God.
The song is a prayer, where the singer tells the Lord that he can’t even count high enough to name all the blessings from above.
It was so weird, waiting for someone else to die, so that he could live.
“A prisoner, and yet…so free!” said Corrie ten Boom, prisoner of the Nazis.
“‘It doesn’t matter, really, how great the pressure is,…It only matters where the pressure lies.” HT
The truths in this book are foundational for living a victorious Christian Life.