"Alone Yet Not Alone" Sung by Joni Eareckson Tada

Monday Musings - 1/27/2014

"Alone Yet Not Alone" Sung by Joni Eareckson Tada

If you haven't heard this song (sung by Joni Eareckson Tada), please take the time to watch this video. It is a beautiful song. The song "Along Yet Not Alone" will be featured in the movie by the same name that is coming out in June 2014. The song has also been nominated for an Oscar. (Read more about that here).

Monday Musings - 10/21/2013

Last week, I taught my homeschool manner class about flag etiquette. While searching through some things I came across the lyrics to The Star Spangled Banner. So I thought I would share them with you all. I think it is sad that we don't know all the verses.

The Star Spangled Banner

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Monday Musing - 10/14/13

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Monday Musing - 9/30/13

I saw this on a billboard about 9 years ago.

Monday Musing - 9/23/13

As Christians, we can laugh at death. For us death is not the joyless end of our lives; but it's the beginning of endless joy!

-Barbara Johnson

The only legacy worth anything is our footprints for them to follow...right up to God's throne. In the light of eternity, nothing else matters.
 
-Barbara Johnson

Monday Musing - 9/16/13

Above All

Above all powers
Above all things
Above all nature and all created things
Above all wisdom and all the ways of man
You were here before the world began

Chorus
Crucified
Laid behind the stone
You lived to die
Rejected and alone
Like a rose trampled on the ground
You took the fall
And thought of me
Above all

Above all kingdoms
Above all thrones
Above all wonders the world has ever known
Above all wealth and treasures of the earth
There's no way to measure what You're worth

-Paul Baloche and Lenny Leblanc

Monday Musing - 9/9/13

"Where did you come from baby dear?"

Where did you come from, baby dear?
Out of everywhere into the here.

Where did you get your eyes so blue?
Out of the sky as I came through.

What makes the light in them sparkle and spin?
Some of the starry spikes left in.

Where did you get that little tear?
I found it waiting when I got here.

What makes your forehead so smooth and high?
A soft hand stroked it as I came by.

How they all just come to be you?
God thought about me and so I grew.

But how did you come to us, you dear?
God thought about you, so I am here.

-George MacDonald

Monday Musing - 9/2/13

The Months

January brings the snow,
makes our feet and fingers glow.

February brings the rain,
Thaws the frozen lake again.

March brings breezes loud and shrill,
stirs the dancing daffodil.

April brings the primrose sweet,
Scatters daises at our feet.

May brings flocks of pretty lambs,
Skipping by their fleecy damns.

June brings tulips, lilies, roses,
Fills the children's hand with posies.

Hot July brings cooling showers,
Apricots and gillyflowers.

August brings the sheaves of corn,
Then the harvest home is borne.

Warm September brings the fruit,
Sportsmen then begin to shoot.

Fresh October brings the pheasants,
Then to gather nuts is pleasant.

Dull November brings the blast,
Then the leaves are whirling fast.

Chill December brings the sleet,
Blazing fire, and Christmas treat.

 

-Sara Coleridge

Monday Musing - 8/26/13

This is from my "common place" book that I started ten years ago. Originally, I found the poem in a book my grandma had given me.

Mondays child poem

Mondays child is fair of face,
Tuesdays child is full of grace,
Wednesdays child is full of woe,
Thursdays child has far to go,
Fridays child is loving and giving,
Saturdays child works hard for his living,
And the child that is born on the Sabbath day
Is bonny and blithe, and good and gay.

-Charles Perrault 

Monday Musing - 8/19/13

This is on a picture my parents have in their house.

“Excellence is the Result of Caring more than others think is Wise, Risking more than others think is Safe, Dreaming more than others think is Practical, and Expecting more than others think is Possible.”

Monday Musings...Politics

While many believe that politics and faith does not go together, I disagree. I am very involved in politics and I feel it is very important to be involved and informed. It is about the future of our nation and the future generations. One of the things I have found out about politics is that many people I know in politics are very strong Christians. They are people who have faith and are not afraid to share it. They are praying people. In fact, just the other night I was at a political event and an older gentleman came up to me. He asked me if I was working on one of the campaigns. After I told him I was, he started praying for me. He prayed for wisdom for me and for discernment. It was truly amazing and I felt the Holy Spirit had led him to pray for me and had given him the words I needed to hear.

Below is a quote that I like from the movie, Amazing Grace. Whatever career path you choose, whether it is being a parent, teacher, businessman, salesperson, or anything else, if you choose to do it for the glory of God, you can and are doing both. The people I have met in politics are unashamed of their faith. They use their work in politics to witness to the people around them. As the quote says they do both!

‘Mr Wilberforce, we understand you are having problems deciding whether to do the work of God or the work of a political activist,’ says Clarkson. ‘We humbly suggest you can do both,’ adds Hannah More.

~From the Amazing Grace movie.

Dreaming...

Monday Musing - 7/9/12 


I believe we should also set goals and dream about the future! It keeps us going!



"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream".
C. S. Lewis

Rise Up - Matt Maher

Monday Musings - 6/25/2012
One of my new favorite songs! Rise Up by Matt Maher.

Find Us Faithful

Love these lyrics from Steve Green's song, Find Us Faithful

Oh may all who come behind us find us faithful
May the fire of our devotion light their way
May the footprints that we leave
Lead them to believe
And the lives we live inspire them to obey

Oh may all who come behind us find us faithful

Monday Musing - 6/18/2012

An anxious heart weighs a man down, but a kind word cheers him up. (Proverbs 12:25 NIV84)

Take the time to give a kind word to someone today!

Musing on Monday

Here is the Musing for Monday,  June 11, 2012!

"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."

~John Andrew Holmes

Happy Birthday to...

My younger sister!

Today is my younger sister's birthday. And I thought I would share a story with you.

I was the youngest in my family. And for as long as I could remember I wanted a young sibling, a baby sister to be exact. I prayed and I prayed and I prayed for a baby sister. One day, I remember telling my mom, "I want a baby sister." Her reply to me was that she was too old. My response to that was, "But Sarah and Elizabeth in the Bible had babies when they were old." I am not sure what my mom thought of this...but I figured if God could give them babies when they were older then my parents could still have another baby, too. After all, I didn't think they were old.

So I kept praying. I knew God answered prayers. Both of these couples had wanted children and God answered their prayers. I trusted in Him and believed He would answer my prayer as well.

After being the baby of the family for almost 9 years, God answered my prayers. The Christmas before I turned nine, my parents announced that my mom was pregnant! I was so happy, I started crying. It was the first major prayer God had answered for me! Months later, my mom had an ultrasound. I was privilege to be able to go with. I, of course, wanted to find out if the baby was a girl or a boy, but we weren't able to find out. But I continued to trust God. I knew the baby was a girl. I knew that God had indeed fully answered my prayer. I kept telling everyone the baby would be a girl.

So that June 4th came, just a month before I turned nine years, and I baby girl was born into our family. God answered my prayer. He gave me a baby sister. The one I had prayed for...for nine (almost!) years. Even more, it was in His perfect timing.

Lord, thank You for answering my prayers. Thank You for doing it in Your timing and not in what we may think would be the right time. Thank You for miracles! Amen!

Never give up hope! All things are possible with God!

Matthew 19:26
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Here were the Bible verses that reference the stories of these people who were older, who prayed for their children, and God blessed them with children:

Luke 1:7
But they had no children, because Elizabeth was barren; and they were both well along in years.

Luke 1:13
But the angel said to him: “Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to give him the name John.

Luke 1:36
Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be barren is in her sixth month.

Genesis 18:11
Abraham and Sarah were already old and well advanced in years, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing.

Genesis 21:1
[ The Birth of Isaac ] Now the LORD was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had promised.

1 Samuel 1:20 (ESV)

And in due time Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, for she said, “I have asked for him from the Lord.”