First Letters

For those of you who have received my letters I want to again thank you for taking the time to read and consider them. I am glad that I was finally able to get the letters out, as I was unable to do so last week because of my hectic finals week at college. Thankfully all my tests and projects are out of the way now, and I can focus on raising support for my trip. 

I would also like to apologize to those whom I kept this decision from initially, and I hope that you are not offended that you had to find out in a letter. I simply had to be certain that this was the correct direction that God was taking me for my summer. I also did not want to speak about it too much until I had confirmation of my acceptance.

For those of you who go to Calvary/CBC, I will be there tomorrow (5/8) to answer any questions you may have about my trip. I also hope to stop by CCA, sometime early this week, so that I can speak to a few friends about the trip. 

Thank you again for taking the time to pray for me and check up on my progress, and please feel free to contact me if you wish to speak to me about any details of the trip.

Playing the Secret Chord

So what’s in a name?

I heard there was a secret chord, 

That David played, and it pleased the Lord,

But you don't really care for music, do you?

I was just sitting here, working on a name for the blog that I hope will keep me in touch with all my supporters throughout my summer travels, when Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah began playing on Pandora (if you don't know what Pandora is then I will just let you find out for yourself, its Awesome!) I often look for a deeper meaning in songs and when I heard these lines I Googled them to see that others thought Cohen was writing about. One writer thought it referred to Psalm 56-60, where King David is singing, praying, or crying out to God in his mikams. Apparently, it is believed by some that these mikams were meant as secret songs from David to God, that were meant to be a pouring out of David’s spirit before the Lord.

Perhaps the the only reason why these lines struck me was from being overwhelmed with college finals and really not thinking very clearly, but I do confess that personal contact with God is one of my many failings in life. Yet David had it all together and still fell from grace very hard....

Your faith was strong but you needed proof

You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew her

Even David, who had a connection with God that I believe any Christian today would envy, fell from his walk into sin. If a man as spiritually strong as David can fall into sin so easily, how can we, with our busy lives on our Facebooks and cell phones, ever hope to stay in tune enough with God to fully realize his blessing or experience his power in our lives.

I honestly did not expect to get all this writing inspiration when I picked this name up from the song. I hope that whenever I am writing in this blog or just reading an old post that I will remember to keep my walk and talk with God as personal as I can….

Then “Defying Gravity” from Wicked came on Pandora…..Maybe I’ll discuss that one in a later post :)