From the South End of Mercer Island with Greg A. 7.14.2025
From the South End of Mercer Island with Today’s Edition of My Rhymes and Reasons
Greg Asimakoupoulos from the south end of Mercer Island with today’s edition of My Rhymes and Reasons on a spectacular postcard morning like this. could not resist pulling out the iPhone and recording a morning meditation especially for you with this beautiful view of 14,000 ft Mount Rainier. In the lower right hand corner you can see the Boeing airplane plant on Renton airport. That’s where they manufacture 737s.
I’m told that they produce more than one a day, more than 30 every month. Imagine that. The assembly line. It must be a wonder to behold to have a tour of the Renton plant of the Boeing airplane company. Well, as I see Mount Rainier in the distance, Lake Washington in the foreground, I’m thinking about a little chorus that was written back in the 1940s.
I first heard this little chorus back in the 1990s when Willard and Margaret Grant, children evangelists, came to our church, Crossroads Covenant Church and Conquered with a week of children’s meetings, making the Bible and Bible stories come alive…more on the video above.

