Monday, September 25, 2023

Thank you

 Thank you for my health and helping with my endo and with swallowing and heartburn - the pain is gone!

Thank you for being in better relationship with Tricia!

Thank you for helping me find a great recipe for cookies for Mariza

Thank you for time with my brother and Shauna tonight

Thank you for being patient with me and teaching me to put my hope in you

Thank you for afflicting me and teaching me and disciplining me bc you love me

Thank you for getting to hangout with my mom on Friday

Thank you for the Shower Gel from Terri when Hannah and I visited her

Thank you for giving me truth through Allie about my relationship with EI

Thank you for helping me fight lies during my volleyball game

Thank you for Becca's encouragement

Thank you that I got to drive Hannah and Melissa to the game

Thank you for the delicious dinner last night - butternut squash, chicken and cous cous

Thank you for a job

Thank you for getting to talk to Minnie during lunch with Rosie

Thank you for helping me to run 6 miles on Saturday!

Thank you for helping me with the LF cards

Thank you for getting to listen to Soul Revolution 

Thank you for the fun leather teardrop earrings

Thank you for my mom and dad and brother still being alive

Thank you for a smoothie this morning

Thank you for getting to talk to Amanda, Sean, Jodi, Kory

Thank you for getting to take a walk around the parking lot this morning and worship you

Thank you for a safe drive to work

Thank you for hot water

Thank you for forgiving me for my sins

Thank you for meeting me when I went to the fountain yesterday after volleyball and for the beautiful view of the fountain

Thank you for the extra box of brownies to use for the Martin Mansion time on Friday

Thank you for dinner with Karmel's parents 

Thank you for your love. Thank you for loving me - I don't deserve it bc I'm good or pretty. You love me bc you are loving and faithful

Thank you for your Word and how it endures forever

Thank you for Mariza coming

Thank you for being so merciful

Thank you for your love and for dying for me on the cross so I can be with you forever

Thank you for Adam's testimony and for the Trust in God Song by Elevation Music

Thank you for restoring the relationship with Tricia

Thank you for Lunch on Saturday and being with me as I worked on the LF cards

Thank you for shoes that fit me and work - thank you for healing my feet of plantar facilitus

Thank you for getting to sit with Beth McNeeley and Joy during service and taking communion with them

Thank you for Riley and her reaction to the coconut meringues lol

Thank you for the sleep and energy you gave me this week

Thanks for helping us with set up in the morning

Thanks for getting to talk to Allie

Thank you that you want to meet with me and want to talk to me and you are my father and you have a plan and an inheritance for me. Thank you that you want to grow me and help me. 

Thank you for Rosie and Brandie and for protecting me and helping guide me

Thank you for the love you gave me for Minnie








Friday, September 8, 2023

RENTAL

"Where I Belong"

Feeling like a refugee
Like it don't belong to me
The colors flash across the sky

This air feels strange to me
Feeling like a tragedy
I take a deep breath and close my eyes
One last time
One last time

Storms on the wasteland
Dark clouds on the plains again
We were born into the fight

But I'm not sentimental
This skin and bones is a rental
And no one makes it out alive


Until I die I'll sing these songs
On the shores of Babylon
Still looking for a home
In a world where I belong

Where the weak are finally strong
Where the righteous right the wrongs
Still looking for a home
In a world where I belong

Feels like we're just waiting, waiting
While our hearts are just breaking, breaking
Feels like we've been fighting against the tide

I wanna see the earth start shaking
I wanna see a generation
Finally waking up inside

Until I die I'll sing these songs
On the shores of Babylon
Still looking for a home
In a world where I belong

Where the weak are finally strong
Where the righteous right the wrongs
Still looking for a home
In a world where I belong

This body's not my own
This world is not my own
But I still can hear the sound
Of my heart beating out
So let's go boys, play it loud

On the final day I die
I want to hold my head up high
I want to tell You that I tried
To live it like a song

And when I reach the other side
I want to look You in the eye
And know that I've arrived
In a world where I belong

In a world where I belong
In a world where I belong

Where I belong
Where I belong

Where I belong

Where I belong

I still believe we can live forever
You and I we begin forever now
Forever now
Forever
I still believe in us together
You and I we're here together now
Together now
Forever now
Forever now
Forever now
Forever
Forever


https://youtu.be/s3-7fjhYm2g?si=Qy5q-aGp9QNktzh6


Where I Belong

Sometimes it feels like I'm watchin' from the outside
Sometimes it feels like I'm breathin', but am I alive?
I won't keep searching for answers
That aren't here to find
All I know is I'm not home yet
This is not where I belong
Take this world and give me Jesus
This is not where I belong
So when the walls come fallin' down on me
And when I'm lost in the current of a ragin' sea
I have this blessed assurance holding me
All I know is I'm not home yet
This is not where I belong
Take this world and give me Jesus
This is not where I belong
When the Earth shakes
I wanna be found in You
When the lights dim
I wanna be found in You
(All I know is I'm not home yet)
(This is not where I belong)
(Take this world and give me Jesus)
(This is not where I belong)
All I know is I'm not home yet
This is not where I belong (where I belong)
Take this world and give me Jesus
This is not where I belong (where I belong)
Where I belong (where I belong)
Where I belong, where I belong

https://youtu.be/fVBu2_dVb7w?si=Hp9v1Z4DW-izrPXT