*Lake Louise, Canada August 2008
*Mount Constitution, WA April 2008
*Snoqualmie Falls, WA Spring 2008


I can't understand this work of grace
How a perfect God would come and take my place
...
The stars they don't move you.
The waves can't undo you.
The mountains in their splendor,
They cannot steal your heart.
This God who is holy, perfect in beauty,
Awesome in glory, is ravished by my heart

Though I'm poor you say I am lovely;
Though I'm dark you say I am beautiful.
...
Somehow my weakness has overwhelmed you
And somehow my weak love, it has stolen away your heart.
Somehow my weak glance has overwhelmed you
And somehow my weak love, it has stolen away your heart.

I can't understand this work of grace
How a perfect God would come and take my place.

- IHOP, Dark But Lovely

And that's what undoes me.

HOW DO I, STEAL AWAY HIS HEART IN A WAY THOSE MOUNTAINS, STARS, AND SEA CANNOT? They certainly ravish me... What will His face do to me I wonder?