Happy New Year!!!
I hope and pray that each person that actually reads this blog has a blessed year!! Along with the new year comes resolutions... most of the time, people don't keep these. And I admit, I usually don't stick to mine either... But this year, instead of making resolutions, I want to make 1Corintians 13:13 my motto... "Faith, Hope, and Love. The greatest of these is love." I want to be the Christian that everyone thinks I am, and then some. I want to love people, even people that aren't easy to love. I want to live for the Hope of a tomorrow. Overall, I want to be the best child of God that he has set out for me to be!
Tonight, I spent my New Years Day at church. I know, it has been a while since I went to church on a Wednesday night, and I am embarrassed by that. As we sang tonight, I thought about my summers at camp, my winter break at Youth in Action or Winterfest and I think of how on fire I was... I want that again. I will have that again! I already look forward to camp this summer and wish that I could take Baker so I could go more than just one week! Please pray that I would become all that God has placed me on this earth to be... to use the many talents that I have been blessed with. (Including finishing nursing school) :)
Anyways, one of my all time favorite songs to sing is Sing and Be Happy! I love that it features the alto's (mainly because I am one) but have you ever really listened to the words?? I used to sing this to Baker while he layed in the NICU at Children's Hospital. I even had a nurse tell me that it was catchy and brought her back to her youth. And every once in a while, I would catch her humming the tune! It was the song that got me through the rollercoaster. And just today, a terrible accident happened to someone that our community loves. So as I sang this song tonight, my heavy heart felt great joy. I know that this young man was a man of God, and I know that, although there will be sadness for his loss, he is in Heaven walking the streets of gold...
Sing and Be Happy
If the skies above you are gray, You are feeling so blue,
If your cares and burdens seem great all the whole day through,
There's a silver lining that shines in the heavenly land,
Look by faith and see it my friend, Trust in His promises grand.
Often we are troubled and tried, Sick with sorrow and pain,
There are others living in sin blest with earthly gain,
Take new courage we cannot tell what the morrow may bring,
When the dark clouds vanish away then your heart truly can sing.
Oft we fail the see the rainbow up in heaven's fair sky,
When it seems the fortunes of earth frown and pass us by,
There are things we know that are worth more the silver and gold,
If we hope and trust Him each day, We shall have pleasure untold.
(Chorus)
Sing and you'll be happy today, Press along to the goal,
Trust in Him who leadeth the way, He is keeping your soul,
Let the world know where you belong, Look to Jesus and pray,
Lift your voice and praise Him in song, Sing and Be Happy Today!
If your cares and burdens seem great all the whole day through,
There's a silver lining that shines in the heavenly land,
Look by faith and see it my friend, Trust in His promises grand.
Often we are troubled and tried, Sick with sorrow and pain,
There are others living in sin blest with earthly gain,
Take new courage we cannot tell what the morrow may bring,
When the dark clouds vanish away then your heart truly can sing.
Oft we fail the see the rainbow up in heaven's fair sky,
When it seems the fortunes of earth frown and pass us by,
There are things we know that are worth more the silver and gold,
If we hope and trust Him each day, We shall have pleasure untold.
(Chorus)
Sing and you'll be happy today, Press along to the goal,
Trust in Him who leadeth the way, He is keeping your soul,
Let the world know where you belong, Look to Jesus and pray,
Lift your voice and praise Him in song, Sing and Be Happy Today!
I don't normally post things like this, I just felt that putting my goal out there will make me accountable. Yes, I have other 'resolutions"... I must get healthier, and want to be a better wife and mom, and of course, finish school and start a new job... But my salvation tops it all...
So Happy New Year my dear friends!!!
