They say it's your birthday.....
hahhaha just a little birthday jingle the Lord sent me! Well, today I am 28 and today is also the first day back at work for teachers......wow, special day! hahahhha I have technically celebrate 3 times over the past week so I am not too sad to be sitting in long boring meetings trying to be interested when my mind is still on summer time!
My time is short on the computer...so much I want to share about this upcoming year because I like to have specific goals, about my spiritual walk, written down so that I have a tangible reminder to pray for them over the year. I am still in the process of writing those. But I do have a ton of Hymns that have been swirling around me during my quiet times...
Does that happen to anybody else? Your reading, studying or praying and you then just bust into a praise song or hymn. Comes right out of nowhere and I just love it. I particularly love it happening first thing in the morning.....I live alone so I can go without talking for a while in the morning...then I start singing and my alto voice has become bass level and i sound like a frog hahahhahahhaahh BUT I know that voice has to make our God giggle with the purity of it! haha
Anyway, I did not write the jingle about my birthday to the birthday song. When I say the Lord gave it to me I MEAN I WAS SINGING HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND THE WORDS CAME OUT THAT WAY! so cool and soooooooooooooooooooo fun and made me feel like a million bucks! He knows how to fill my love tank up with a little personal time!!
28- each year gets better. I never look at years by how my body changes or how my face looks. I have always gone by how I have grown in the Word. That is why I never sit and say "OH...what i would give to be 20 again".....heck no! I was crazy...well crazier then and loving God but didn't have a clue about what it meant to yield to Him everyday. NOT A CLUE! So, I say "Hello 28" by singing some of my old Hymn favorites.....
Why should I feel discouraged
Why should the shadows come
Why should my heart feel lonely
And long for heaven and home
When Jesus is my portion
A constant friend is He
His eye is on the sparrow
And I know He watches over me
His eye is on the sparrow
And I know He watches me
I sing because I'm happy
I sing because I'm free
His eye is on the sparrow
And I know He watches me (He watches me)
His eye is on the sparrow
And I know He watches
I know He watches
I know He watches me
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“Take up thy cross and follow me,”
I heard my Master say;
“I gave my life to ransom thee,
Surrender your all today.”
Wherever He leads I’ll go,
Wherever He leads I’ll go,
I’ll follow my Christ who loves me so,
Wherever He leads I’ll go.
He drew me closer to His side,
I sought His will to know,
And in that will I now abide,
Wherever He leads I’ll go.
Wherever He leads I’ll go,
Wherever He leads I’ll go,
I’ll follow my Christ who loves me so,
Wherever He leads I’ll go.
It may be through the shadows dim,
Or o’er the stormy sea,
I take my cross and follow Him,
Wherever He leadeth me.
and last BUT NOT LEAST...........................................................
There’s within my heart a melody
Jesus whispers sweet and low,
Fear not, I am with thee, peace, be still,
In all of life’s ebb and flow.
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,
Sweetest Name I know,
Fills my every longing,
Keeps me singing as I go.
All my life was wrecked by sin and strife,
Discord filled my heart with pain,
Jesus swept across the broken strings,
Stirred the slumbering chords again.
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,
Sweetest Name I know,
Fills my every longing,
Keeps me singing as I go.
Feasting on the riches of His grace,
Resting ’neath His sheltering wing,
Always looking on His smiling face,
That is why I shout and sing.
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,
Sweetest Name I know,
Fills my every longing,
Keeps me singing as I go.
Though sometimes He leads through waters deep,
Trials fall across the way,
Though sometimes the path seems rough and steep,
See His footprints all the way.
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,
Sweetest Name I know,
Fills my every longing,
Keeps me singing as I go.
Soon He’s coming back to welcome me,
Far beyond the starry sky;
I shall wing my flight to worlds unknown,
I shall reign with Him on high.
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,
Sweetest Name I know,
Fills my every longing,
Keeps me singing as I go.
sweetest name I know........and this song is right, soon He's coming back to welcome us home. Though it is my birthday I know that today is also the memorial service for baby Reese. I, like so many others, can't seem to get this family off my mind. I just cry as I read the blog updates and at the same time so grateful that Katie shares with us her struggles even though we are strangers. But what is so sweet is that baby Reese is singing, FROM THE INSIDE OUT RIGHT NOW, "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus...sweetest name I know" while looking Him in the eyes. She was presented before the thrown completely pure...without sin and I know our Mighty God was so thrilled to see her! So I pray these Hymns, for this next year, not just for me but for them as well.
His eye is on us.......He is watching us
Where ever He leads us we will go
He fills our EVERY LONG
and
He keeps us singing as we go!
Lord thank you for another year. Thank you for all that you changed in me last year and all you will change in me this year, ABOVE ALL I want to know you intimately. ABOVE ALL I want you to look at me and know that you can trust me with your work because I will be faithful! Thank you for another day to live for you. Be with all those that are grieving on this same day. As they join together, in singing praises, I ask that you give them strength to raise their hands to you. You are the only thing ,God, that can carry us through our darkest hours. Your word says that the darkness is not dark to you. Your word says that you know what lies in the darkness and light dwells in you. We hold on to your truth. I ask that you shine brighter today, at this memorial service, than you ever have! WE REST IN YOU! FOR YOU ARE OUR JOY!