Author: PastorChad

A great year of Seattle sports. A humble and inspired full team effort. You never take these wins for granted as they don’t happen like this very often. Go Team!

In a world so often torn apart, Jesus reminds us to be pro-neighbor. In his love, we are better together. Pull up this song a sing it out today!

Love to all

Pastor Chad

I Need You To Survive

Song by Hezekiah Walker and The Love Fellowship Choir ‧ 2002

I need you, you need me
We’re all a part of God’s body
Stand with me, agree with me
We’re all a part of God’s body
It is His will that every need be supplied
You are important to me, I need you to survive
You are important to me, I need you to survive

Everybody look at somebody and tell them I need you

I need you (you need me), you need me
(We’re all a part) We’re all a part of God’s body
(Stand with me) Stand with me (look at somebody, tell them agree with me)
Agree with me
(We’re all a part) We’re all a part of God’s body
(It is His will) It is His will that every need be supplied
You are important to me, I need you to survive (tell your neighbor)
You are important to me, I need you to survive

This is beautiful, New York
Let’s do it one more time, come on, open your mouth and say I need you

I need you (let me hear you, you need me), you need me
(For we’re all) We’re all a part of God’s body
(Stand with me) Stand with me
(Agree with me) Agree with me
We’re all a part of God’s body
(It is His will) It is His will that every need be supplied
(You are important to me) You are important to me
(Yes, you are) I need you to survive
(You are important to me) You are important to me
(I need you to survive) I need you to survive

I pray for you
(Pray for me) You pray for me
(I love you) I love you
(I need you to survive) I need you to survive
I won’t harm you with words from my mouth
I love you
I need you to survive (yes sir)

I pray for you
You pray for me
I love you (come on, y’all) 
I need you to survive
(Hold somebody hand and tell them, come on) 
I won’t harm you with words from my mouth
I love you
I need you to survive

I pray for you
(You pray for me) You pray for me
I love you
I need you to survive
(I won’t harm you) I won’t harm you
(With words from my mouth) With words from my mouth
(I love you) I love you
(I need you to survive) I need you to survive

I pray for you
(Come on, you pray for me) You pray for me
(I love you) I love you
(I need you to survive) I need you to survive
(Point at somebody and tell ’em I won’t harm you) I won’t harm you
(Come on, y’all) With words from my mouth
(I love you) I love you
(Need you to survive) I need you to survive (let’s take it up, everybody)

I pray for you
(You pray for me) You pray for me
(I love you) I love you
I need you to survive
I won’t harm you with words from my mouth
(I love you) I love you
(Let’s take it up one more time) I need you to survive 
(Come on, get up, get up on your feet and say it, come on, I’ll pray for you)

I pray for you
(Look at somebody and tell ’em) You pray for me
I love you
I need you to survive
(I won’t harm you) I won’t harm you
(With words from my mouth) With words from my mouth
(I need you) I love you
(I need you) I need you to survive 
(Let’s do it without no music, I wanna hear the word come out)

I pray for you (y’all appreciate it)
You pray for me
(I love you) I love you
(Tell somebody) I need you to survive
(I won’t harm you) I won’t harm you
(With words from my mouth) With words from my mouth
I love you
I need you to survive

I pray for you
(You pray for me) You pray for me
I love you
I need you to survive
I won’t harm you with words from my mouth
(I love you) I love you
I need you to survive (it is His will)

It is His will that every need be supplied
(You are important) You are important to me
I need you to survive

Yeah, y’all clap your hands, everybody
Let’s lift our hands

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: David G. Frazier

I Need You To Survive lyrics © Audiam, Inc, The Mezzo Agency, LLC

Across cultures. Across time.

Published in 1961 and still deeply resonant today, ‘The Golden Rule’ reflects Norman Rockwell’s belief in the profound impact of everyday kindness to connect us all. At its heart is a hopeful vision: a world guided by compassion, respect, and care for one another—values rooted in our shared humanity.

Rockwell felt it was his duty to reflect the times in which he lived, reminding us through the generations that hope is not abstract, but something practiced daily, person to person.

“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

Image credit: Norman Rockwell, Golden Rule, 1961. Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, April 1, 1961. Norman Rockwell Museum Collection, NRACT. ©1961 SEPS: Curtis Licensing, Indianapolis, IN. All rights reserved.

Luke tells us that Simeon and Anna had waited a long time for God’s promise to be fulfilled. When the moment comes, they recognize it—not because it is grand, but because they have learned how to watch.

Their witness reminds us that faith is not passive waiting, but attentive hope—rooted in prayer, patience, and trust.

May we become people who recognize God’s work unfolding before us, even when it arrives quietly.

A gift of getting out on foot and wandering with no specific destination allows for some magnificent finds. Street art has always grabbed my imagination. The who – the why – the what. Without the directed answers, our minds are freed for imagination. What do you see? What story can we tell?

A late night walk in downtown Seattle. Adventure is always right outside our closed doors. Tonight’s finds included mummies – the best chocolate chip cookies – and the wonder of the city and its people. Love you son!

THOSE STARS THAT TURN IN US

I do not know
how to keep it all together
or by what patterns
this world might
finally hold.

What I know is
our hearts are bigger
than this sky
that wheels above us

and what shines
through all this darkness
shines through us,
setting every shattered thing
into a new constellation,

and we can turn
our faces
to that light,
to the grace of
those stars
that turn in us.

—Jan Richardson
from How the Stars Get in Your Bones: A Book of Blessings
janrichardson.com/books

Image: “A New Constellation”
© Jan Richardson

Ah the relief of a school semester ending. The shoulders were more relaxed, the smiles a little brighter, and the play a little more easy to come by. All 5 knocked the semester out of the park with hard work and good grades. Proud of this team. To celebrate we drove out to the big waves and walked along the roaring ocean. Westport is one of our go to places and it never disappoints. We get the reward no matter the weather with fish and chips at one of the best places on the planet. Ling cod for the win along with chowder poutine.

Love you kids! These are the days that will be treasured forever. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Grocery Outlet is my quick go to on the way home after a long day. A few rice puddings and some other random deeply discounted items in hand and I am in and out in a few minutes for ten bucks or less. Unless there are colorful flowers to slow me down. Tonight these grabbed my attention and my pace slowed and a smile broke out on my face. Little signs and symbols of joy along the path. I needed those flowers tonight more than those flowers needed me. Thanks be to God.

“Stay Strong” by David Gate

They say to “stay strong”

in the throng of disaster

so I let my body unravel

all its secrets of magic & memory

so that joy & sorrow & terror

& love bleed like watercolors

together at the edges

of their vivid hues

falling into serendipity

because to feel it all is to surrender

& not all surrender is loss

so I let everything live within me

like the galaxy I am

because I cannot imagine

anything stronger than the courage to live

like we are fully alive.