Glory to Your Name
Our stm team had quite a week, prepping for 2 full programs of missions sharing this past Friday and Sunday. It was so nice to all be together again, working on one goal: to testify and proclaim all that the Lord has shone us in Nashville and Atlanta. Lots of newcomers came to the two events, and it was a real blessing for me to be a part of that team. The girls did a 'dryme' (a dance intertwined with sign language) to Sharon's beautiful singing...it really struck a chord in my heart. It was touching even tho I've seen it at least 10x. I can only imagine how inspiring it was for the congregation. They danced to the song "Glory to Your Name."
"Every knee will bow, every tongue confess
that Jesus You are Lord....."
Work this past week was rather enjoyable....hehe. Didn't think I'd feel that after my crazy first week, huh? I was much better prepared, and the kids wanted to learn! We all had a great time at the Ontario Science Centre (for our weekly outing)...fun to see all the exhibits again (it's one of my fav elementary school outing places), kinda nostalgic riding in the yellow school bus again, singing camp songs, and pumping our fists to every trucker we see, hoping he'll toot his horn. Lol....good times.
Softball on sat. was kinda disappointing. We had a double header, but we forfieted both games because we didn't have enough girls to play. Where are the girls on this team? So we played an exhibition game against Socs Sr. with the help of some players on the Miracles. A sticky, humid day for softball.
It was a great weekend nonetheless, because of ACF camping! Tho I went for about 24hrs...it was a much needed getaway for me, and many others....so nice and relaxing. Sitting on the beach, and watching the day go by....such a soothing, and calm setting. Really gave me a peace of mind. Some of us went to the beach again at night, and it was BEAUTIFUL...the moon is out, full and bright, with stars here and there (b/c of partial cloud cover), I sat out by the rocks with T-sa and Jas. The lake was completely still and it reflected the night sky. All you could hear was quiet, and our friends laughing in the distance. Then I remembered what I had last read in C.S. Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters", and how 'Uncle Screwtape (a demon) was advising his nephew Wormwood on dealing with his human subject...
Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury. And the sense of injury depends on the feeling that a legitimate claim has been denied. The more claims to life, therefore, that your patient can be induced to make, the more often he will feel injured and, as a result, ill-tempered...they will anger him because he regards his time as his own and feels that it is being stolen. Let him have the feeling that he starts each day as the lawful possessor of 24 hrs...confuse him so that he will not see that man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift...
This vacation time was truly a gift from the everyday. Still learning to give up my rights, and claims to life.
Our stm team had quite a week, prepping for 2 full programs of missions sharing this past Friday and Sunday. It was so nice to all be together again, working on one goal: to testify and proclaim all that the Lord has shone us in Nashville and Atlanta. Lots of newcomers came to the two events, and it was a real blessing for me to be a part of that team. The girls did a 'dryme' (a dance intertwined with sign language) to Sharon's beautiful singing...it really struck a chord in my heart. It was touching even tho I've seen it at least 10x. I can only imagine how inspiring it was for the congregation. They danced to the song "Glory to Your Name."
"Every knee will bow, every tongue confess
that Jesus You are Lord....."
Work this past week was rather enjoyable....hehe. Didn't think I'd feel that after my crazy first week, huh? I was much better prepared, and the kids wanted to learn! We all had a great time at the Ontario Science Centre (for our weekly outing)...fun to see all the exhibits again (it's one of my fav elementary school outing places), kinda nostalgic riding in the yellow school bus again, singing camp songs, and pumping our fists to every trucker we see, hoping he'll toot his horn. Lol....good times.
Softball on sat. was kinda disappointing. We had a double header, but we forfieted both games because we didn't have enough girls to play. Where are the girls on this team? So we played an exhibition game against Socs Sr. with the help of some players on the Miracles. A sticky, humid day for softball.
It was a great weekend nonetheless, because of ACF camping! Tho I went for about 24hrs...it was a much needed getaway for me, and many others....so nice and relaxing. Sitting on the beach, and watching the day go by....such a soothing, and calm setting. Really gave me a peace of mind. Some of us went to the beach again at night, and it was BEAUTIFUL...the moon is out, full and bright, with stars here and there (b/c of partial cloud cover), I sat out by the rocks with T-sa and Jas. The lake was completely still and it reflected the night sky. All you could hear was quiet, and our friends laughing in the distance. Then I remembered what I had last read in C.S. Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters", and how 'Uncle Screwtape (a demon) was advising his nephew Wormwood on dealing with his human subject...
Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury. And the sense of injury depends on the feeling that a legitimate claim has been denied. The more claims to life, therefore, that your patient can be induced to make, the more often he will feel injured and, as a result, ill-tempered...they will anger him because he regards his time as his own and feels that it is being stolen. Let him have the feeling that he starts each day as the lawful possessor of 24 hrs...confuse him so that he will not see that man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift...
This vacation time was truly a gift from the everyday. Still learning to give up my rights, and claims to life.
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