Wake Up Call

I entered Gordo's room this morning at 6:30 ... half expecting him to still be asleep... due to the time change. Instead ... he yells out ... Pooker Annie ... You want to hear a religious number? Although half delirious ... I answer ... sure dad. He breaks out into song ... of the entire "Old Rugged Cross". WOW ... that was special. Now I'm fully awake. Thought to share my "Wake Up" call with you.  Feel free to wake up your kids with it ... lol. Happy Sunday !


OLD RUGGED CROSS
On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross,
The emblem of suff’ring and shame;
And I love that old cross where the dearest and best
For a world of lost sinners was slain.
Refrain:
So I’ll cherish the old rugged cross,
Till my trophies at last I lay down;
I will cling to the old rugged cross,
And exchange it some day for a crown.
Oh, that old rugged cross, so despised by the world,
Has a wondrous attraction for me;
For the dear Lamb of God left His glory above
To bear it to dark Calvary.
In that old rugged cross, stained with blood so divine,
A wondrous beauty I see,
For ’twas on that old cross Jesus suffered and died,
To pardon and sanctify me.
To the old rugged cross I will ever be true;
Its shame and reproach gladly bear;
Then He’ll call me some day to my home far away,
Where His glory forever I’ll share.