Hosanna in the highest!

Let me preface this by saying the pictures have nothing to do with this post...they're just awesome pictures of Miguel's brother playing soccer on Saturday. He really is a GREAT player!

On Sunday at church, the message was about the Triumphal Entry for Palm Sunday. It was a really great message. Our pastor has a wonderful way of taking a topic/story we've heard many times and capturing a new aspect of it to make it really interesting.

So anyway, I was translating the message for Miguel and he thought it was really cool. At the end we sang Hosanna (can be found on the latest United Live cd and the latest Passion cd - God of this City). This is a song that Miguel knows well and often requests to hear in my car. It was one of the first songs he learned in English, but on Sunday it took on a whole new meaning as we learned what Hosanna really means and read the story of the Triumphal Entry where it says "Hosanna in the highest!". So during the second verse of the song, I leaned over and said to Miguel, "Imagine we're kids standing at the Eastern gate and we're holding our branches. We're waiting for Jesus. Listen! What's all that cheering?" He looked up at me and smiled and said, "Yeah!" Then I pointed and said, "Look! It's a donkey! It's Jesus!" And right then the song hit the chorus which goes "Hosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna in the highest!" And Miguel put on the biggest smile ever and for the first time ever, closed his eyes, spread his arms out wide, and shouted out the chorus, "Hosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna in the highest!"

Words can't describe how awesome it was to see a kid really worshiping, really understanding what the words mean for the first time!