Sunday's Hymn: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty

Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty!
Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee;
Holy, Holy, Holy, merciful and mighty!
God in three Persons, blessed Trinity!

Holy, Holy, Holy, all the saints adore thee,
Casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea;
Cherubim and seraphim falling down before thee,
Who wert, and art, and evermore shalt be.

Holy, Holy, Holy, though the darkness hide thee,
Though the eye of sinful man thy glory may not see,
Only thou art holy; there is none beside thee
Perfect in power, in love, and purity.

Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty!
All thy works shall praise thy Name, in earth and sky and sea;
Holy, Holy, Holy, merciful and mighty!
God in three Persons, blessed Trinity!

—Reginald Heber

Keith Green

Acappella

Other hymns, worship songs, prayers, sermons excerpts, or quotes posted today:

• Omnipotent Lord at By Grace Alone
• Lead On, O King Eternal at Graces Daily
• My Hope Is Built at The Happy Wonderer
• Christ Is Victor Because He Was the Victim from Trevin Wax
• The righteous don’t go with the flow at Blogging Theologically
• Lifting Up Our Hearts - 35 at The Upward Call
• Confidence not misplaced at Tried With Fire
• Lord’s Day 32, 2014 at The Thirsty Theologian
• Your weekly dose of Spurgeon: How to live at Pyromaniacs

Have you posted a hymn (or sermon, sermon notes, prayer, etc.) today and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by contacting me using the contact form linked above, and I’ll add your post to the list.

Climbing Fish

The chinook salmon are back at the Whitehorse Rapids fish ladder. You can watch them live, pooling at the bottom of the ladder. Right now, as I watch, there are twenty or so salmon waiting their turn to go through. What do you see?

A fish ladder is a way to get the fish swimming upstream around the dam. It’s a system of ascending weirs, and the fish move up and through, leaping over the partitions or swimming through underwater doorways from one weir to the next until they go around the dam and into Schwatka Lake. From there the salmon continue travelling to the same creek they came from, where they spawn and die. 

A few chinook salmon swimming in the fish ladder last year

As they pass through the ladder, salmon are counted, and their sex and size is determined and recorded. This year so far there have been 220 Chinook salmon through the ladder, with about 100 of those coming through today.

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Thankful Thursday

Join me in thanking God for this past week’s blessings.

This week, I’ve been thankful 

• for yesterday spent with the grandchildren; for their growth and development—even though some stages of development are more difficult than others. (Terrible twos, I’m thinking of you!)
• that the raspberries in my yard are beginning to ripen and the bushes are full of blossoms and berries to come.
• for every frost-free night. Yes, it’s time to begin watching the forecast nightly lows for frost warnings. Until the my tomato stops producing, every frost-free night is a gift.
• for the work my son is doing on my fence, replacing the rotted bits and staining the whole thing again.
• that I can entrust God with all the things that worry me, knowing that he cares for me.
• for resurrection—the resurrection of Jesus, and the certain future resurrection of all those united with him. 

Also thankful today:

• Kim Shay
• Persis

What are you thankful for? Leave a comment with your thanksgiving, post your thanksgiving on your blog, or tweet it. Give me the link by email or in a comment and I’ll add your thanksgiving to the list in the post.