Jesus Saves by Travis Cottrell

Written in 2016.

Today is Palm Sunday (Hosannah!) and the choir special is 'Jesus Saves' by Travis Cottrell.  Here is a Bible passage for each line:

Hear the heart of heaven beating, Jesus saves, Jesus saves,

. . . and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son.  She wrapped Him in cloths and placed Him in a manger, because there was no room for them at the inn.  Luke 2:7

And the hush of mercy breathing, Jesus saves, Jesus saves.

But because of His great love for us, God Who is rich in mercy made u alive with Christ even when we were dea in transgression - it is by grace you have been saved.  Ephesians 2:4-5

Hear the host of angels sing, "Glory to the newborn King."

Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom His favor rests".  Luke 2:13-14

And the sounding joy repeating, Jesus saves.

As soon as the sound of you greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.  Luke 1:44.

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See the humblest hearts adore Him, Jesus saves, Jesus saves,

The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had seen and heard, which were just as they had been told. Luke 2:20

And the wisest bow before Him, Jesus saves, Jesus saves.

On coming to the house, they saw the child with His mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped Him.  Then they opened their treasure and presented Him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh.  Mathew 2:11

See the sky alive with praise, melting darkness in its blaze.

An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.  Luke 2:9  (see also above Luke 2:13-14).

There is light forevermore in Jesus saves.

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of Him Who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.  Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God, once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.  I Peter 2:9-10

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He will live our sorrow sharing, Jesus saves, Jesus saves.

Surely He took up our infirmities and shared our sorrows, yet we considered Him stricken by God, smitten by Him and afflicted.  Isaiah 53:4

He will die our burden bearing, Jesus saves, Jesus saves.

He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness.  I Peter 2:24

"It is done!" will shout the Cross,

When He had received the drink, Jesus said, "It is finished."  With that, He bowed His bead and gave up His Spirit.  John 19:30

Christ has paid redemption cost!

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sin, in accordance with the riches of God's grace.  Ephesians 1:7

While the empty tomb's declaring, Jesus saves.

They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.  Luke 24:2-3

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Freedom's calling, - To Him Who loves us and has freed us from our sins by His blood, and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve His God and Father - to Him be glory and power forever and ever!  Amen.  Revelations 1:5b-6

chains are falling, - Since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death - that is, the devil - and free those who all their lives were held in slavery in their fear of death.

hope is dawning bright and true.  Dear friends, now we are children of God and what we will be has not yet been made known.  But we know that when He appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.  Everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself just as He is pure.  I John 3:2-3

We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.  It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, where Jesus, Who went before us has entered on our behalf  He has become a high priest forever, in the order of Melchizadek.  Hebrews 6:19-20

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Day is breaking, - And we have the word of the prophets made more certain, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.  2 Peter 1:19

night is quaking.  I am sending you to them to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.  Acts 26:17-18

God is making all things new.  Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!  2 Corinthians 5:17

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O to grace how great a debtor, Jesus saves, Jesus saves.

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast.  Ephesians 2:8a

All the saints will shout together, Jesus saves, Jesus saves.

In a loud voice they sang:  Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!  Revelations 5:12

Rising up so vast and strong, lifting up salvation's song,

After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throng and in front of the Lamb.  They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.  And they cried out in a loud voice:  "Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne and to the Lamb."  Revelation 7:9-10

the redeemed will sing forever, Jesus saves.

I will sing of the Lord's great love forever, with my mouth I will make your faithfulness known through all generations.

Time Passes

Written in 2012:  

Blogging comes into perspective as life experiences happen - falling somewhere between tragedy and family drama - factoring in the whether it is a planned event of something that lands right in the middle of other

About 4:30 p.m. on November 14 my husband was getting hay to feed the cows.  When he returned and came in the back door I started chatting about a phone call I had received.  When he staggered in before me and waved me 'off' and practically crawled into his chair, I knew we had no ordinary event - my husband is not dramatic when it comes to physical pain. 

It took me a moment to gain my composure.  When he had his hip replacement surgery on the left hip in July, they had told us to make sure and call them if he had any sign of blood clots in his legs which would be accompanied by sharp pain.   "Should we call 911?", I asked.  He said, "No" - just to get him an icepack for his right leg.

I got the ice pack.  I looked up our clinic's Urgent Care hours and let him know they were open until 7 p.m.  As he wavered as to what to do, I suggested it might be better to go to the Urgent Care while it was still open rather than wait until later when we would have to go to the hospital emergency room. 

 He finally decided that it need to be looked at and it was all I could do to not speed to get there.  When we parked at Urgent Care, the pain had subsided somewhat and he wasn't sure he really wanted to go in.  I began seriously praying - I knew this was no ordinary pain - he knew it was not a muscle cramp  - and I could not believe we were going to return home for what I knew would be a very long nervewracking night.

We finally went in - they were busy (when aren't they).  After waiting about an hour and a quarter (about 7 p.m.)  we saw the doctor.  He could not rule out a blood clot so he sent us to Salem Hospital with an order for an ultrasound.

At 11:30 p.m. the ultrasound specialist finally became available to check Chuck.  She did a thorough job, taking her an hour and a half.  After she went to report her findings to the emergency room doctor, they told Chuck he was not to get our of bed again - not even swing his legs over the side of the bed!  The source of his pain was clots being thrown down his calf from an aneurysm in an artery behind his right knee.  But not only did they find clots there, they found clots in his left leg, the largest being in his femoral vein in his left groin.

Salem did not have a vascular surgeon available to work on him, so Chuck was transported to OHSU in Portland.

This was just the first few hours of a #2:  Unexpected medical emergency.

What I learned:
   The roundtrip from Salem to Portland and back can be done every day..
   It is possible to get lost every evening trying to find the way to the freeway from the hospital.
   It is possible to stay awake for 36 hours.
   Getting the basic daily care a patient needs at OHSU requires an advocate - at least where we were.
   Surgery in the nerve areas near the surface heal faster but the pain can last much longer than more invasive surgeries.
   There is a whole 'nother world out there where everyone (it seems) takes coumadine.
   Vitamin K is very high in green leafy vegetables.
   Slippers was just fine all by herself for 6 days (I came home late evenings).
   I can drop off to sleep at a moments notice, sitting straight up - something I've never been able to do - even on long airplane trips.
   Our cell phone plan definitely needs to be upgraded.
  
My hiatus from blogging has been a steady trot from pillow plumping to personal hygiene for my husband, from learning how to feed cows to keeping the wood stove fed, from remembering when to get the recycle can out to finding the right wrench to replace the washer in a leaking bathroom faucet. 

Today, nearly 4 weeks later, Chuck is doing better, somewhat limited, but much better.  We started a Physical Therapy regimen.  It still hurts too much for him to drive so I'm still doing a lot of chauffering.

But at least now we are in the predictable somewhat plannable future stage and I feel that I can blog again.

Thank you for reading.