No Idea

Anniversary Song for Highview

Sung to the tune of Philippians 1:3-8

And you!

Look at you all new and true.

Two into one heart.

One fresh start.

And you have no idea!

Big dreams birth big vision

and mission for

Everyone, everyone come!

Church is not boring!

Jesus actually does love you!

And so do we.

So do we.

And we love each other.

We do!

And places called purple

and fairs called stuff

and portables and pig roasts and parking lots and then.

And then change changes things.

Changes change things.

And you have no idea.

When it’s happening

you have no idea

what it means

for then

for later,

especially when

the changes are hard.

You have no idea

what God is doing.

But He’s doing.

And now you’re going

and beloveds are beloved

in places so far away

and so just down the street

all at the same time

that it could only be said

God did it.

And everyone’s welcome

because Church is not what we all thought it was.

And Jesus actually does love you.

And so do we.

And love’s the thing, isn’t it?

And more change.

And change changes things again.

And now.

Look at you all staying true

to not being in one place all through

the winter and spring and now summer.

Because everyone is sick.

The whole world got sick.

And you can’t have a party.

Or can you?

Because Church –

Church isn’t what we thought it was after all.

Again it isn’t.

And isn’t that the way of it.

The love of it.

Because love’s the thing, isn’t it?

Random numbers game:

Added to 1997 is twenty three

and that’s where you’ll be

in 2020.

And 2020…well

You really have no idea. 

No one does.

No one’s done this before.

And it’s hard to know

what it means

for now,

for later.

But God knows.

And He’s doing.

Oh He is so doing!

You’ll see.

And you!

Just look at you!

Happy Twenty-third Anniversary Highview.

You are one of God’s best ideas,

And you will always have my heart.