Hallelujahs Rewritten

Yes, i explain it in the vid...but once again, pardon the bad guitar playing and the muffed lyrics. :P
And COMMENT! :D ♥ya

i've fought this fight for so so long
and i've walked this road without a song
but my heart was broken empty with no purpose

and i tried to love or live or win
to right the dead and to save a friend
but it all was just a torch thrown in the ocean

hallelujah...hallelujah...

hallelujah...hallelu-u-u-u-yah

well i stumbled on a marble stair
and the hellfire wasn't burning there
and i knew at last i'd found a way to do this

and my heart was filled with holy light
and the flames so different burned so bright
a song was heard a joyful hallelujah

hallelujah...hallelujah...hallelujah...hallelu-u-u-u-yah

and i know there is a god above
and i found out what i need to love
and you gave me everything i needed, thank ya

and now i'm on a narrow road
that leads to grace and life and love
and all you've done provokes a hallelujah

hallelujah...hallelujah...hallelujah...hallelu-u-u-u-yah

Liesi and Khail

So today i babysat again, but this time for 3 kids and rather than a couple hours, from 8-6. :D
I had Nikolai, Anneliese and Mikhail. Their brother Alexei has been in the hospital again, so please pray for him. After naptime today Liesi and Khail were playing by the sliding glass door, so i took some pictures of them. :)

Audrey Hadassah

Today I babysat for my friend and former discipler Jennie. Her daughter Audrey was born in December on my birthday. :D So Audrey and I had fun having a photoshoot, and playing, after which she took a nap and i watched You've Got Mail. :D Yah, fun, I know. Here are a few of my favorite shots. :)

And one random cool picture i took. :D

My IBEX friends

Because I love them a lot and miss them real bad, this is for them. :)

And for the rest of the people who might be interested in my life, I'm just chillin at home with my family these days, hoping to get a job soon, (waiting to hear back from all the places I've applied) and hopefully getting my driving permit tomorrow morning. :)

*hugs*

(oh, and i took this picture on a walk with my little sis Briana)

Love from a page

My friend Emily had this on her blog, and i think it's so sweet. :D

So....tell someone you love them today, or show them in the little things you say.

Dickinson

I love Emily Dickinson.


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This world is not conclusion;
A sequel stands beyond,
Invisible, as music,
But positive, as sound.
It beckons and it baffles;
Philosophies don't know,
And through a riddle, at the last;
Sagacity must go.
To guess it puzzles scholars;
To gain it, men have shown
Contempt of generations,
And crucufixion known.

*muses*

So now that I'm back in your worlds, or at least the same hemisphere as most of the people who I'd imagine read this blog, i've been thinking about the implications of my trip (I guess), and some things were kinda occurring to me.

I am so thankful for all the stuff i can see right now that God has used to make me who i am. The main thing i've been thinking about is not being tied down to this world much and being completely open and availiable to whatever great adventures God brings my way.

I'm very thankful for the way God had me grow up, as the daughter of parents who knew how to be dependent on our great God for their every need. I'm very thankful that our family has never owned a home, i'm not tied to a house in the same way that i know many people are. I know that a house is just a building, home is the place where God puts me, and where He gives me people to love and a work to do. A piece of my heart is left pretty much everywhere God takes me, but right now I'm very thankful that He's the one who has my heart, and i trust Him with wherever he wants to take me and wherever he decides to turn my heart. When i'm away from my biological family i miss them a lot, but in the great design, there is a family for me all over the world, with a common ground on the basis of Jesus' blood. Because i'm not tied to a building, i think it's easier for me to just pick up and go on to new adventures.

God is so amazing (i don't care if that sounds cliched, it shouldn't be). He has a HOME for me with Him someday, and i just have to be patient now and serve Him, though he tarry in bringing me there. I'm "home" for the summer, but i can't wait for the next adventures God will bring me. Who knows, it'll probably be right here, this summer! :D

I think the title of this blog is still quite appropriate...

Home :)

Hello friends and other lovely people,
Well, my sojourn in the Holy Land has ended, and I am back on American soil, in Artzot H'Brit (Lands of the Covenant-US). i know i never blogged about my week in Galilee, beyond the poem i wrote, but it was mostly because there is a ridiculous volume of things that i did, a voluminous amount of lessons learned, an infinite number of steps taken (okay, not infinite, but you get the picture). That sentence honestly applies to the whole experience. Galilee was beautiful, and the golan heights...no wonder Syria and Lebanon and the Palestinians want it, it's amazing! So we went to Galilee, and then came back to IBEX for a week or 2, and then I and my friends Deborah, Sara, and Troy went to Egypt. Egypt was great, we saw all sorts of things, i climbed a small pyramid, rode camels, took a Feluca ride on the Nile for an afternoon, saw many amazing ruins (is that an oxymoron?), and had some fun times. Then we came back to the Moshav Yad HaShmona (where we lived 14 kilometres outside Jerusalem) and studied for a week, and then had our finals week. I consistently was up [insert a pretty late/early hour] and in the course of the week assisted with designing the shirt for IBEX, attempted to encourage people and help them keep their spirits up while they studied, tried to keep my own spirits up with the weight of grades and scholarships and a Hebrew final hanging over my head. :D One of the things that this whole semester seemed to be meant to impress upon me was the sufficiency of Jesus and the all important way of life of hiding myself in Him and seeking His ways above all else, and that everything right will follow. My favorite verse this semester was Jeremiah 6:16 which i found at the end of a long crazy day when i was exhausted but was pretty sure I'd done the right thing, and sat to read my Bible, and the verse just jumped out at me as specifically for me then. "Stand at the roads, and look and ask for the ancient paths, the way that is good and walk in it, and find rest for your soul." That verse really "ministered" to me several times throughout the course of the semester, and i praise God for all the work he did in my life there, through the friendships that were built, the late/early night chats discussing the secrets of life and the ways to go, the amazing professors and classes, the stress of studying for tests and taking them, sanctification in room checks and getting along with room mates, and many other things.
I think i'll keep the title of the blog to remind me of my journey, and to help me keep in mind that this world is not my home, but i am a daughter of the King, His child in a distant land, journeying ever nearer through His will to my eternal home in His presence.