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1. Jeffrey Stables says

   Thursday, December 8, 2005 at 3:51 pm

   When it comes to the grace of God
   Sometimes it’s like…
   I’m playing Gameboy standing in the middle of the Grand Canyon
   I’m eating candy sittin’ at a gourmet feast
   I’m wading in a puddle when I could be swimming in the ocean
   Tell me what’s the deal with me
   I know the time has come for me to
   Wake up and see the glory – Steven Curtis Chapman, “See the Glory”

   Of the song, he wrote,

   Part of the inspiration for this song came from a story my pastor and friend Scotty Smith told. He was talking about a train ride he had taken while on a fishing trip in Alaska. He said it was some of the most incredible scenery he had seen in his life. He was looking out the window of the train just trying to take it all in, the glaciers and the mountains and the sunset and the caribou. Scotty looked beside him and saw a kid playing Game Boy with the tiny one-inch screen held up to his eyes and that is what he was engrossed in in the midst of that incredible display of God’s glory. Scotty said part of him wanted to knock the Game Boy out of the kid’s hand and say look around you, see what’s going on! But he was immediately struck with, that’s what I do with the glory of God and the grace of God so often in my life and experience. I thought sitting on the edge of the Grand Canyon or standing in the middle of the Grand Canyon and playing Game Boy would be the most ridiculous thing I could imagine. (parable.com)

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