oh glorious day

Living He loved me

Dying He saved me

Buried He carried my sins far away

Rising He justified

Freely forever

One day He's coming

Oh, Glorious Day

Oh, Glorious Day

One day they led Him

Up calvary's mountain

One day they nailed Him

To die on a tree

Suffering anguish

Despised and rejected

Bearing our sins, my Redeemer is He

One day the grave could conceal Him no longer

One day the stone rolled away from the door

Then He arose o'er

Death He had conquered

Now is ascended

My lord evermore

i miss italy

You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is

 stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the

 LORD forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock. 

-Isaiah twenty six: three & four.

taken from the island of bellagio
lake como, italy. august 2008

*the job hunt is starting to wear me down...

borrowing Paul's words...

"For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of HIS WILL through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. For HE HAS RESCUED us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have REDEMPTION, the forgiveness of sins."
-Colossians 1:9-14

**these words have brought an immense amount of comfort to my life these past few days...it is hard for me to fathom that Paul knew how to perfectly and beautifully pray for the Colossians, without having ever met them... if only I could be as faithful in my prayer life with the people that I live along side daily.

hope & desire

This was posted yesterday on JR Vasser's personal blog.
He is the pastor at Apostles NYC.  I was extremely encouraged 
by his words.  I hope you will be too...

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