We lift our hands in praise to You
Ninety percent of the time in my car is spent listening to K-Love. It’s a Christian radio station. Usually pretty good. Starting tomorrow is their pledge drive. They have them like 4 times a year (or something like that). I hate the pledge drive. I understand it’s purpose, they want to be fully funded by listeners so they don’t have to resort to having commercials. But I hate the way they go about it. They set aside 4 weeks (or so) out of the year. For that entire week, you probably only hear 1 song an hour. The rest of the time is listening to them of how we need 50 more people to meet our goal for this hour. So and so just called in and is giving this much per month. We’ve got one more song this hour, and we need to get 25 people during this song to meet our goal - then during that song, it’s only the instrumental part with them encouraging people to call in. Ok, enough of my ranting of pledge drive week, on to the day before pledge drive week.
The day before pledge drive week (today) has become “Praise day”. They encourage people to call in, text in, facebook in, or twitter in their praises. Praising God for just being God, praising God for what He’s doing in your life. Then some of the more powerful ones, they will share with people between songs. (Then immediately after remind people that it wouldn’t have been possible without people just like me funding the station and pledge drive starts tomorrow and I can get a head start on my pledge right now... sorry, I guess my rant wasn’t over.) Throughout the day, I became more and more happy with praise day (despite the frequent references to pledge drive).
As I was listening on my way home from work, I began to think of things I would send in if I remembered (I never do). Like: the power didn’t go out last night - Praise God. The storm didn’t actually hit us like they said it would - Praise God. The kids actually listened to me and had fun despite some of my last minute planning and some things not going over well - Praise God. And those are all just things from last night. I mean, if I really thought about my entire weekend, my entire day even, I could fill up 10 pages of things for which to be thankful. One of the frequent phrases during camp was “Praise God,” we praised God for everything, even when sometimes it felt like there was nothing for which to be thankful. (A camp photo was the photo on facebook today for that 60 day photo challenge. Freaky God moment, again!) Then that sentiment is repeated in the very first line of this song! And as I’m sitting here, I can’t help but thing of the youth group meeting last week when we talked about prayer. We talked a bit about how our prayer requests usually far outnumber any other kinds of prayers...put together. So tonight, no requesting anything...just praising God.
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