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I'm designing a vocational program for adults with developmental disabilities at a non-profit in Plano and my wife teaches at a daycare in Las Colinas.

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    thirstingsoul:

    Behold What Wondrous Grace!
    Lyrics by Isaac Watts (slightly adapted)
    Originally published in Hymns and Spiritual Songs in 1707
    Arr. by Kevin Sanders 

    In reading some of Watts’ hymns I came across this and fell in love with it. It’s simply a celebration of God’s grace poured out upon His children! Listen with Galatians 4:4-7 in mind… 

    But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.  (Galatians 4:4-7 ESV)

    Lyrics: 

    Behold what wondrous grace the father has bestowed

    on sinners of a mortal race to call them sons of God

    ‘tis no surprising thing that we should be unknown 

    the world knew not their King, God’s everlasting son

     

    Nor doth it yet appear how great we must be made

    But when we see Him here we shall be like our head

     

    A hope so much divine may trials well endure

    to purge our souls from sense and sin

    as Christ the Lord is pure 

     

    If in my father’s love I share a filial part

    send down your spirit O to rest upon my heart

    We would no longer lie like slaves beneath the throne

    my faith shall Abba cry and thou the kindred own 


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