Yesterday, I spent most of the day with my cousin and her daughter.
Sade makes me feel so wonderful. When I walk in, her face lights up and she starts laughing and jumping and reaching for me. It’s nice that someone is so happy to see me coming. LOL. She will be one year in less than a month. It’s so hard to believe. She is a miracle in my life and an opportunity for me to think of someone beyond myself.
We have a lot of plans for her life. There were a lot of things that we weren’t able to do and things that we weren’t exposed to that we want her to have and know. LaQuita and I talk about this all the time. This little girl will know that she is wanted and that she is loved. She will know that her family wants and expects her to succeed. She will know that home and family are safe places for her to be.
She may end of being a little spoiled and that’s okay. Part of our job is to instill the need to give back to her community. She will be able to look around and see that she is blessed, and she will see us sacrifice not only for her good but for the good of the community.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Poem
We are nearing the end of the month, and I have been embarrassingly negligent on my blog!
It’s not that I don’t have things to say. LOL! I’ve sat down a few times, but I just haven’t been able to quite get out what I want to say. There are times when the words on the page aren’t quite expressing what it is I am trying to say.
Last week during praise and worship a song/poem did come to me. Here it is:
Worthy, worthy, worthy
Is the Lamb that was slain
You are the reason
Why He came
He came to give you life
Life more abundantly
He came that you might have
Everlasting peace
He came to give you
Everything you will ever need
Come let us exalt
Our everlasting King
Jesus, Jesus
Is the Lamb that was slain
You are the reason
Why He came
It’s still a work in progress. I want to call it Jesus, Jesus Lamb of Glory, which is notably absence from the lines!
The last time I wrote a poem was years ago when I was in Charleston for a conference. Ah, the sweet smell in the air was inspiring.
It’s not that I don’t have things to say. LOL! I’ve sat down a few times, but I just haven’t been able to quite get out what I want to say. There are times when the words on the page aren’t quite expressing what it is I am trying to say.
Last week during praise and worship a song/poem did come to me. Here it is:
Worthy, worthy, worthy
Is the Lamb that was slain
You are the reason
Why He came
He came to give you life
Life more abundantly
He came that you might have
Everlasting peace
He came to give you
Everything you will ever need
Come let us exalt
Our everlasting King
Jesus, Jesus
Is the Lamb that was slain
You are the reason
Why He came
It’s still a work in progress. I want to call it Jesus, Jesus Lamb of Glory, which is notably absence from the lines!
The last time I wrote a poem was years ago when I was in Charleston for a conference. Ah, the sweet smell in the air was inspiring.
Friday, April 9, 2010
Church Article
This is the article from the April 1 newsletter of my church:
In a prayer, Saint Francis of Assisi asked God to make him an instrument of peace. He desired to sow love where there was hate, pardon where there was injury, faith where there was doubt, hope where there was despair, light where there was darkness, and joy where there was sadness.
Ezekiel 16:6 reads, “And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.” Despite God washing and caring for His people, they played the harlot. Even still, God remembered His covenant.
God kept His promise to Israel. Each time His people sinned, God was faithful and just to forgive them and keep His covenant. This covenant was sealed when Jesus Christ died on the Cross to pay for our sins and give us life. Because of Christ, no one is beyond repentance or forgiveness. No sin is too great that the Blood cannot cover it.
Before Jesus died on the Cross, He uttered the words, “It is finished.” Christ completed His purpose, and His death gave us life. When Christ died on the Cross, He died for our sins, our hurts, our pains, and any and everything else that attempts to hinder us. Christ replaced our death with life. He replaced our sin with redemption. He replaced our hurt and pain with healing.
Even if we stand polluted in our own sins, God is so faithful to forgive us. Even when we deserved the punishment of death, God’s grace and mercy pardoned us. It is in this demonstration of the awesomeness of God’s love for us that we can begin to become instruments of His peace.
Christ died that we could be light shining in the darkness. Christ died that we could be hope in the midst of despair. Christ died that we could be love in a world full of hate. Christ played His role, now we must play ours. Through Christ in us, we can sow and manifest the fruit of the Spirit.
Even in our darkest hour, deepest valley, and personal crisis, we can be comforted with the knowledge that our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, is with us. In Psalm 40, David said he waited patiently for God, and God heard his cry. David wrote of the Lord bringing him out of a horrible pit and out of the miry clay and placing his feet on solid rock and establishing his goings.
As we die out to ourselves, we are transformed into the likeliness of Jesus Christ, who came that we could live.
In a prayer, Saint Francis of Assisi asked God to make him an instrument of peace. He desired to sow love where there was hate, pardon where there was injury, faith where there was doubt, hope where there was despair, light where there was darkness, and joy where there was sadness.
Ezekiel 16:6 reads, “And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.” Despite God washing and caring for His people, they played the harlot. Even still, God remembered His covenant.
God kept His promise to Israel. Each time His people sinned, God was faithful and just to forgive them and keep His covenant. This covenant was sealed when Jesus Christ died on the Cross to pay for our sins and give us life. Because of Christ, no one is beyond repentance or forgiveness. No sin is too great that the Blood cannot cover it.
Before Jesus died on the Cross, He uttered the words, “It is finished.” Christ completed His purpose, and His death gave us life. When Christ died on the Cross, He died for our sins, our hurts, our pains, and any and everything else that attempts to hinder us. Christ replaced our death with life. He replaced our sin with redemption. He replaced our hurt and pain with healing.
Even if we stand polluted in our own sins, God is so faithful to forgive us. Even when we deserved the punishment of death, God’s grace and mercy pardoned us. It is in this demonstration of the awesomeness of God’s love for us that we can begin to become instruments of His peace.
Christ died that we could be light shining in the darkness. Christ died that we could be hope in the midst of despair. Christ died that we could be love in a world full of hate. Christ played His role, now we must play ours. Through Christ in us, we can sow and manifest the fruit of the Spirit.
Even in our darkest hour, deepest valley, and personal crisis, we can be comforted with the knowledge that our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, is with us. In Psalm 40, David said he waited patiently for God, and God heard his cry. David wrote of the Lord bringing him out of a horrible pit and out of the miry clay and placing his feet on solid rock and establishing his goings.
As we die out to ourselves, we are transformed into the likeliness of Jesus Christ, who came that we could live.
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