This lovely winter term of 2011, I find myself stuck with four courses again after one of my courses was dropped from my degree, thus making it no longer necessary for me to stay enrolled in it. So guess what? I have Mondays off again! Wow. A lot of the work intimidates me yet again this term. I am not so sure I can match the results I got in my first term. But it is still incredibly early, so I don't have a whole lot to say as of right now.
I saw Jeff's update, and I thought I would do something similar. A little over half way through January, I've already read, heard, and seen some rather unfortunate things happen to some people I know. I know a lot of times, things seem to happen for the very purpose of going against what we want individually. I'm not going to do a whole chunk of writing to try to offer my sympathies; I'll just post a chunk of videos or songs or whatever I find helps me through these things.
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"Your Love Never Fails" - I've heard this song a little over a year ago, and have always wanted to try leading it for worship. Except it's a really contemporary song and probably would take quite a while for everyone to catch on. I particularly enjoy the bridge. Some people might question it, but it reminds me of Romans 8:28 and how God works for the good of those who love him.
"How He Loves" - David Crowder's version just hits me right in the heart. The song is self-explanatory. It's also funny because I decided to sing it for worship this past Sunday; and since then, I believe it's been sung another few times in multiple worship sessions over a span of a couple days.
"Rain" - For those of us who were here when Ps. Joe and Phil showed us these videos, this will be really familiar. It's a great reminder and shows us through the rain metaphor about all the little storms we go through.
Lastly, there's a whole bunch of Scripture I could list out, but I'm not going to do that because reading God's Word should be standard in pretty much everything we do. Usually reading the Bible coincides with praying.
Last week, during my first spiritual calling class, I learned that as great as the mountain tops feel in life, it's all about the path before and after the peak that make life worth living for. Sure the view and feeling you get when you get to that peak is phenomenal, but you can't live your entire life up there. Mountain tops are usually really cold, windy and unstable; life is the same way, and we can't make a living up there our entire lives. When you do get to the peaks and valleys, you kind of look back at the road that you just took; and that's why we do this. We're all called to live and help each other, and everyone is at a different stage of the road. Some might be at the bottom, some might be on the way up, some might be already on top, and some might be on the way down. Wherever we are, we've got to help each other through it all.
I think this is all I've got. I just wanted to do my best to help anyone who is in the valley right now or have recently been there, or maybe even the point just before the valley.
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