But I knew for sure that summer was here when I grabbed my camera, an hour or two ago, jumped on my bike and cycled for five minutes, arriving at the small forest just outside my hometown. The sun trickled through the fresh green leaves of the trees and the ground was covered with amazing amounts of tiny little flowers, plants and weeds. I sank to my knees in amazement and an hour later I found myself lying on the ground, covered in insect bites and scratches, with over 400 photos on my camera.

When I biked home I felt so full of God’s amazing creation and His glorious works that I couldn’t help but singing, with strange looks of a few people as a result. That feeling, that feeling of joy, of happiness and of wonder, that is summer. I’m in awe of God’s amazing skills and creativity, how He manages to let the sun fall on leaves and so many different weeds and flowers and make everything look so gorgeous. I’m absolutely in wonder of God’s fabulous creation, of His shining, divine, gorgeous, ravishing and glorious summer. I am in awe. It is summer.

Beautiful, beautiful song. Have a blessed sunday!

As we break this bread, as we drink this cup – Lord we remember
how you gave your life, on a brutal cross – Lord we remember.
This is the way you’ve chosen to save, this is the way you make all things new.

Broken and beautiful – extravagant love, prodigal grace.
Broken and beautiful – God’s perfect justice, mercy’s embrace.

Next to it’s poetic beauty this is also a song that makes you look at God’s grace in a different way. At least, that’s what it did to me. The one thing that just jumped out was the part where he sings ‘This is the way, You’ve chosen to save. This is the way, You make all things new.’ Did you ever think about the way that God chose to save our lives? I mean, He could have easily started a war against the devil and He would have won. He could have easily let us take the blame ourselves. God could have done so many things, but he chose this way.

He chose the way where somebody else took the blame for us. But who would, willingly, take that blame? Who would give up his life for the lives of other people? People that keep on making the same mistakes over and over again? Exactly. No-one would. The only one that would willingly choose that way was God Himself – Jesus.

And yet Jesus didn’t choose a way of war, or fear. Jesus didn’t choose a way of laws or commandments, no, Jesus chose the way of love. The way to make everything new was through His never failing, unconditional and divine love. He chose a way of love, a beautiful love. Yet this love had to be broken to be beautiful. Jesus broke on a cross one day, so that you would never have to break. Undescribable extravagant love – that’s the way He chose.

This song changed my way of thinking – I know now what to remember. I will remember the way that God chose to save, the way He chose to make me new. God’s perfect justice, mercy’s embrace – broken and beautiful.