The last week or so I have been listening to this track from Jason Upton´s CD. It is constantly in my mind and heart. I think because I love the clearity of the child. During the song Jason tells the story of how he wrote this song with his son Samuel.
Here is the transcript of part of the song. Hope you will enjoy it as much as I do!
Jason says:
It was just around Easter time a couple of years ago and my son Samuel came into my worship room and he said to me; “Daddy I want to sing this song, I want to write this song about Jesus. And I said alright Samuel lets do it. So he said “You sit over there and I will sit on the couch.” And he had his little guitarr. And he had me get my guitarr. I had a pen and a paper out. And I said “what do you want to say to Jesus?” and he said I want to say “Hey Jesus”, so I just wrote down Hey Jesus. And then I asked, what are you going to say after you say hey Jesus. And he said “are you still on the cross, or are you feeling better? And if you are feeling better, will you come down and play with me?” So I said “huh” (gasping).
The song starts: Won´t you come down, down, down, down to the ground.
He had the guitarr half-way over his head I remember. Laying on the couch at the time with his thumb in his mouth and he took his thumb out of his mouth about half-way and said “yeah daddy I like that.” Then he looked at me and said “to the next of me place”.
The song continues: To the next of me place with a smile on my face and a song in my ear.
and he said “yeah daddy”
The song continues: and around and around and around we go.
Hey Jesus, when I wave at you, do you wave back too
Hey Jesus, when I am feeling sad, do you feel sad too
Won´t you come down down down to the ground
To the next to me place with a smile on my face and a song in my ear
Around and around and around we go
Jason continues the story: I will never forget this. He looked up at the tallest part of my bookcase, up at the top, he stood up on the couch and pointed at the top of my bookshelf where I have all my theology books and he said: ”Hey daddy, if we throw toys at those books do you think they will come alive?” And I heard him but I wanted him to say it again and I said “what did you say Samuel?” he said “Daddy do you think if we throw those books, do you think they can fly?” and then he said “Daddy throw me up into the sky and I will touch the moon!”
The song continues: Take us way beyond religion, way beyond the minds of man, way beyond thinking. Help us receive, help us recieve your love. Help us recieve, help us recieve your joy. Help us recieve, help us recieve your peace…..
The stress of september is over! Woohoo. I can take a deep breath and go back to work as usual. Today we had the grand opening celebration of our new treatment team. We had invited our coworkers from other treatment programs and professionals we work with. Along came higher up bosses and their political bosses. It was one great get-together
The team I belong to pulled together and planned the whole day with food and everything else that have to be part of a grand opening. It is a great team-building event!
Two bosses held speaches and media was there to take pictures and ask us questions.
I just loved spending time with all of our guests and my only regret is that I couldn´t sit down and talk one-on-one with that many. Hopefully we will be able to do that later.
It was a great day - stressful! Yes, but it turned out wonderful and we had a lot of people come because they want to know more about us…. and of course…. free food is never wrong! 
I don´t think any of them read this blog but just in case… thank you for a wonderful afternoon!
It is always hard for me to say good bye. I am what you would call sentimental. Endings scare me. The fact that things are not going to be what they are. This used to be much worse when I was a child. Repainting doors was traumatic to me. When my mom sold a painting it was a tradegy because it was always my favorite. Well that was the only explaination I could give as a child. I wasn´t able to make others really understand what I felt inside.
So the real reason is lost in the past but I still get that same feeling inside. The feeling is the same. I think I would explain it as a loss of control. A feeling that something was very good, familiar, and safe. If something changes then what can gaurantee that it will still be good and safe. I would explain it as a domino feeling. If you push one it will effect the rest. A sense that it is all some how connected.
Now this is not what I was going to write about at all. I was going to make a short note about summer being over. I was going to use this picture from a month ago when we had once again another “good bye” meal with my brother and his family.
It just seems so fitting to end the summer that way. This moment was really nice. I love this family so dearly.
It is really hard to express my gratitude and love. But thanks for letting us join you for dinner. It was a perfect ending for summer and a great celebration of your wedding anniversary. The food was excellent but with this fellowship almost anything tastes good!
After a few cold rainy weeks, the weather has changed and has been really nice over the last 2 days. Fall has begun, the leaves have just started to change on a few of the trees in our neighborhood. School has started up again…and the flowers are blooming?
Take a look…Mir and I were out walking tonight and this is what we found…
