A frog at the garden waterfall

I read verse out of “The Message” this morning that kick started my day:

What a wildly wonderful world, God! You made it all, with wisdom at your side, made earth overflow with your wonderful creations.”
- Psalm 104:24

Yesterday afternoon, I was listening to a frog next to a small garden waterfall. He was croaking for all he was worth. He seemed to be expressing his emotions. The owner said he had put in the garden waterfall the day before and the frog just moved in. I could have stood there for hours just listening.

Sometimes there are just not words to adequately convey our emotions. I think that when the psalmist wrote that verse he was overflowing with awe. He regularly spent time near to the heart of God.

“He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart.” Isaiah 40:11

Some of the greatest hymns of the church came out of emotional times.
Cleland B. McAfee , in 1903 wrote the following words af­ter two of his niec­es died from diph­theria. The Park Col­lege choir sang the new hymn out­side the quar­an­tined house.

Near to the Heart of God

There is a place of quiet rest,Near to the heart of God.
A place where sin cannot molest,Near to the heart of God.

O Jesus, blest Redeemer,Sent from the heart of God,
Hold us who wait before TheeNear to the heart of God.

There is a place of comfort sweet,Near to the heart of God
.A place where we our Savior meet,Near to the heart of God.

O Jesus, blest Redeemer,Sent from the heart of God,
Hold us who wait before TheeNear to the heart of God.

There is a place of full release,Near to the heart of God.
A place where all is joy and peace,Near to the heart of God.

O Jesus, blest Redeemer,Sent from the heart of God,
Hold us who wait before TheeNear to the heart of God.