Yes, I Believe In God

Whatever the cost
From this day on-until forever
I will take the narrow road
for I am not alone
I do not walk this path alone

Yes, I believe in God
This I will say to you
Mean it death, or mean it life
Oh, I believe in God
For I have found the way
And I am not ashamed
I believe in God

So through the fire I'll be refined
And if that fire were to take this life
I'll be with Him forever
I will be with Him forever

You said "If any man comes after Me
He must deny Himself, take His cross
and follow after Me"
So here I come after You knowing
when my life I loose
You gives Your in return
You give Your new life in return

By Rebecca St. James

Some exciting info........@ least to me it is.

Today I was doing my Economics for school and the author of the book that I'm using was explaining inflation and recession and he started talking about a coin's worth. Anyway, he said that we (meaning the reader) wouldn't have any coin's dating before 1965. Well, when my great grandma (Leader Mae Young: born 1910) was alive, she would save all her left over money, including coins. If I remember correctly, she was able to help my great uncle get through college, because of this. But that's not the point. So anyway, my great grandma still had some jars of coins left over after she died. So my mom took some, and about six years latter, she gave some of those coins to me.

Well today I looked through the collection and there are six pennies dating before 1965. The dates are: 1935, 1941, 1956, 1960, 1962, and 1963. Then I had one from my own collection dated, 1964. Coins that were made before 1965, were 900 fine silver. Meaning that they were 90% pure silver. I am so excited about this. If I get married and have kids, I am definitely passing this on to them. I can't wait to tell my mother.

So glance at the date on your coins when you get change back from purchasing something. TTYL

Do you ever have a whole bunch that you want to type/say, but then once you start typing, you forget what you wanted to type about? Well that just happend. So I'll talk about something else.

Isn't it amazing how you ask the Lord to reveal anything in your life that's displeasing to Him or that doesn't reflect Him, and then when He shows it to you, you want to deny it because it's just so ugly and yucky and you want to lie to yourself and say, "that is not me at all"? I've been dealing with some issues and sometimes what I see in me, is just plane awful. We probably all going through this at some point and time in our lives.

Well, my dad's internship is going to be over in a couple of weeks, which means we're going back to my old church. To be honest, I'm not too excited about this. But what is exciting is that I have a much better attitude then I would have a year ago. Which means that God has been doing a major attitude adjustment in my life and I praise Him for it.

I'm taking the lovely S.A.T. tomorrow, so please keep me in your prayers.

Do you know what's really exciting? Emily already knows this, but I'm 97% sure that I'm going to be going down to VA in June and helping out at Aletheia this summer, which means that I'll be flying into NC. Emily is sacrificing a week out of her summer so that we can work the same week and drive up together! Isn't that AWESOME and a HUGE blessing? Doc and Ms. Judy are going to be thrilled.

Well I need to get ready for work. TTYL

Hey all!
I justed posted one of my most favorite songs ever. I wanted to sing this at Alethia, but I couldn't find anyone who knew it and I didn't have the guts to sing solo. Anyway, this song has ministered to me since I was about 11 and I hope it ministers to you as well. God bless you!

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Hello you wonderful people!
I really should be studying, but I don't want to, so that's why I'm posting at this point and time in my life. It snowed on tueday and wednesday. I've only been able to wear my snow boots twice this winter, wich is a little strange. Last year we got snow through April. Anyway, um....I had my first day of spanish class yesterday and I sat next to someone who had just completed med school and she was only 25, but she looked 18. She wears head coverings (outside of church, meaning all the time). I've always have had a really high respect for those who are willing to publically act upon what they believe. You don't meet too many people like that now days.

Anywho, spanish class went well. My teacher doesn't believe in letting students out early, because she wants to give us our money's worth.

One of my big toes swelled up and turned red a couple days ago. The red went away, but the swelling is still there. Don't know what's wrong with it.

Just to let y'all know, I'm not being overly expensive with what I'm charging for piano lessons. The lowest price you can get around here is $10 a half hour and the highest price is $40 so don't think I'm a gready little somebody (lol). TTYL

Have you ever tried putting peanut butter in your oatmeal? Well Shamar told me that I haven't lived until I ate oatmeal with peanut butter. So I tried it, and it's really good. Speaking of Shamar, he has a little lady friend now. And she happend to be my friend before he even met her, so it's kind of strange. But this is the first time that I have actuelly really approved one of my brothers lady friends.

So I'm at work right now and I get to go home around 5. Nothing huge is going this weekend. I get to teach a piano lesson when I get home. It will be my very first one. I'm teaching a little girl that goes to my church. I'm charging her $6 a half hour, so I get to make a little money.

I probably should go.

HAPPY 18TH BIRTHDAY EMILY!

Wish I could be in NC to wish you a happy birthday personally. This will have to do for now. Love you lots!

QUESTION

Do you ever hear people say that dating isn't Biblical but courtship is? Well to be honest, I haven't read every word of the Bible, but I've read most of it and I don't really see anything about courtship but I do see things about arranged marriages. So my question is, are Christians going about marriage the wrong way, or are arranged marriages something that's done in in certain cultures or was done in a certain/specific time preriod? Feel free to give me some input. And Emily, if you're reading this, I will soon write you about the paper you sent me on courtship. It gave me a lot to think about.

All of Me

Holy Father, love me still
I have fallen from Your will
I am broken
Hear my humble cry
My cry

I have wandered for so long
Tired and weary on my own
In Your arms I know I'm home, O God
My God

Take my life and make it Yours, Lord
Fill me with Your love
You are all I need
I surrender
I surrender
I surrender all of me

By Terry Wade Haynes

School starts back tomorrow. I'm not too thrilled about it, but this means that I only have one semester left (four months; less than half a year) and I will be done with high school! Thank you Lord!

My weekend went really well. I had piano lessons yesterday morning and we picked out most of my pieces for competition in March. I'm doing two duets, two solo's, two hymns, one sight-reading piece, and a theory test. I hope all goes well. Yesterday afternoon, one of my old friends from elementry school called me up and said that she had an extra ticket to the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra because the person she was going with cancelled at the last minute. So I went downtown last night to watch that. It was so wonderful. Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin and Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27 by Sergei Rachmaninoff were the two pieces that were played. I hadn't been to the orchestra for at least seven years so I really enjoyed myself.

Well you all have a wonderful week.

I'm at work again

Hello everyone! How are you all doing? I'm at work again, and we're pretty slow. Do all brother and sisters pick on each other, or is my familey unique? Well Shamar and I were in the kitchen today and he tried to kick me while he was washing a pan. I dodged him and whenever he misses me I say, "missed me by a mile" with and english accent. So I went into the laundry room to check on a load of clothes. Next thing I know, Shamar comes running with a spatula (I think I really screwed up the spelling) and I started backing up, lost my balence fell on the hamper, and broke it. So that's the story for the day. Bye bye!

HAPPY 2006

Hello! I'm back. So I spent New Years Day at church. We had two services. One was at 11:00 p.m. saturday night and it lasted until 12:30 a.m. The next one was 10 1/2 hours latter. They were both very challenging for this year; they were about sharing your faith with others and what are you going to do with your faith. Something exciting that happend was, I made a little girl at church smile, which is pretty amazing, because she smiles for very few people. I guess I have the wonderful talent for making strange faces.

Anyway, I'm at school right now. I got a B in my English Grammar class. My teacher said I received the highest grade, which is kinda scarry. The Lord has blessed me tremendously in my schooling. I hope I never take it for granted. So I registered for Spanish 1. I'm really praying that this teacher isn't like military tough. Only God will be able to get me through this, like He gets me through everything else. Gotta go!