PRAY

As some of you know...i will be embarking on another journey come Jan. 4 2010 with SBC.  As a group of third years, we will be off to the Philippines for 18 days.  We will be going with Action ministries.  Reason for this post, is not to talk about MX (though Email me if you want more details on that-but an email will be coming out soon), but to ask for prayer for the country.  Not sure if you are following the news...but there is massive flooding going on right now...right in the area where we will be (though the people who we will be working with, are safe as is their organization anda ll)  Check out this link for a few more details..

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090929/philippine_storm_090929/20090929?hub=TopStoriesV2

 

but Yah, Pray for the country, for the people, for those greiving and those still missing, Pray for the government that theywill allow help to come in.  Pray to God Almighty that HE will move through this country and people during thsi time...

Thank you...

~A Prayer: Give me work to do; give me health; give me joy in simple things.  Give me an eye for beauty, a tongue for truth, a heart that loves, a mind that reasons, a sympathy that understands~

Break My Heart

So I am currently attempting to work on a Hebrews research paper on Perseverance...when one of my favorite songs came to play on my Itunes....Hosanna.  This version was done by Hillsong.  It is a song that I made my "theme song" or one of them, for my trip this past summer.  There is this one segmant of lines in it, or i guess one verse, that has always stuck out to me.  It is something that makes me think a whole lot, it is somethign I have used as a prayer before.  It is a statement I want for my life while I strive to live for God...check out the lyrics..and note the part in Bold especially.

 

Heal my heart and make it clean
Open up my eyes to
the things unseen
Show me how to love like
you have loved me

Break my heart from
what breaks yours
Everything I am for
your kingdom's cause
As I go from nothing to
Eternity

Last year in dorm, I had a little sticky note beside my bed just as a reminder, thinking nothing of it.  Then this year, my roomate informed me that she based a short devo this summer off of it, as it got her thinkign as well.  She also mentioned that it got her younger brother thinking about it as well and noted that it was an interesting request/prayer, because how often do we actually pray for our heart to be broken?  it seems wierd and un natural...this thought as well made me stop and think.  Though i am not sure where I am taking the rest of this post, it is  a thought that just jumped into my head (or perhaps I needed a break from Hebrews!) but whatever the case, its a thought.  Just another though, another day from troubled-heart...

peace out and enjoy!

~A Prayer: Give me work to do; give me health; give me joy in simple things.  Give me an eye for beauty, a tongue for truth, a heart that loves, a mind that reasons, a sympathy that understands~

New Favorite song

This entire CD is amazing, but this song is pretty sweet!  Usually not one for slower songs, but yah...it speaks...read the lyrics and meditate on it

Rush of Fools-Holy One

 

Face to the ground, I’m not proud

Of all you must see when you look at me

I tremble at first, as You wash the dirt

The dirt from my feet

And I see my need for thee

CHORUS

You lift me up, Holy One, Holy One

When I but come, you’re enough, you’re enough

You fill me up with your love, with your love

To you I run, Holy One, Holy One

All other noise, fades away

Like all of the fear,

when Your voice I hear

You’re beckoning me, to come and just be

A child at Your feet

Seeing my need for thee

CHORUS

Your enough to satisfy

When the world has left me only dry

Enough to save my life

When the world has left me here to die

Friends, Third Year, Weddings, oh and homework..

Greetings...so I realize I have not updated this for quite some time! whoops my bad!! anyways my third year has started at SBC...so far its been prettty awesome! late nights, great memories, timmy runs and all of that!! I've been told third year is the hardest...and so far its really not..which is good. I think why third year has been harder for some people is because the classes get smaller, friends leave and move on, but yet for me, the core group of people who I have gotten to know and love, are still at SBC, so that has for sure made it easier...
But yah it is good to be back and get into routine and all, though I am finding it difficult to get motivated but that will come!! I am really going to like my digital media class that is for sure!

People have asked me now that I am in my third year, what my plans are for when I am done...I am tossing around a few ideas, but we will have to wait and see. One of them being as per usual, work...one being working the summer than taking an acutal photography course, one being taking off overseas somewhere and acutally living and working abroad for a year or so (how amazing would that be?!!), or working for a year to pay of debt or something...yah not really sure.
But for now, I am going to enjyo my second last semester at school!!! Just soak in each and every moment and just remember to LIVE the moment, no matter what life brings....

So heres to a new year, a new start for my final year, a new chance to do somethign and make something of myself and all!

enjoy it, soak it in, live in teh moment

God moment at work

Greetings!
I write this now having summer pretty much behind me, WBC, ukraine, and even work...we are down to the last weekend before school begins...and another chapter closes (in sense that its grad year for me), crazy I know! But first is one final weekend of camping with the family...one final taste of summer 09....what a summer its been!
but that is not the reason for this post...I want to share a little God moment that happend at work the other day that was pretty sweet!
So like most youth groups/sunday schools, we are still looking for leaders for this next fall year. So i was up early for my lunch, and a friend of mine from the church was eating etc, and in teh back of my head, I had this thought.."hey, he was a youth leader back when I was junior high/high school and it was sweet! Maybe he would have time again" So before I knew it, before my brain could process it, my mouth was like "hey...you doing youth again this year??" On my part, it was totally random...but we got to talking and mentioned how junior youth apparently has no leaders...so what hear....and those are thursday nights...which he would have free. What was neat is that he said he has been praying about it and thinking about it and our pastor also approached him on it as well...so was it a concidence that i mentioned it?? No. He mentioned as well, its not a concidence that you mentioned it...
Did God speak through me to him, with just that simple question? I am not sure what he will do, if he will choose to work with youth and all, but it was a neat little example of God moments here and around and it reminded me that God is and will be still, very much in control in my life and forever mroe...and that he will use me as well...even with small things like that. it was a great reminder coming into my final year now!!!

Hope life is treating you well!