Who Am I

The older I get the shorter life seems. I remember being a child when a week felt like a year and a year felt like a 100 years. Especially when I was 14 desperately wanting to be 16 so I could drive or date or whatever it was that made the days feel so long.

This song by Casting Crowns really puts our lifespan in perspective. The song compares our life to a wave that is here and crashes and is gone or a flower that blooms, but only for a season. Life is so short -- I get that now. I think having children also makes you realize how fast things change.

This song really speaks to my heart and I hope today that it will be an encouragement to you - a reminder that God cares about us - about our fears, our hopes and the storms that life brings.

Who Am I (Songwriters: Hall, John Mark; Casting Crowns)

Who am I, that the Lord of all the earth

Would care to know my name

Would care to feel my hurt?

Who am I, that the bright and morning star

Would choose to light the way

For my ever wondering heart?



Not because of who I am

But because of what You've done

Not because of what I've done

But because of who You are



I am a flower quickly fading

Here today and gone tomorrow

A wave tossed in the ocean

A vapor in the wind

Still You hear me when I'm calling

Lord You catch me when I'm falling

And You told me who I am

I am Yours, I am Yours



Who am I, that the eyes that see our sin

Would look on me with love

And watch me rise again?

Who am I, that the voice that calmed the sea

Would call out through the rain

And calm the storm in me?



Not because of who I am

But because what of You've done

Not because of what I've done

But because of who You are



I am a flower quickly fading

Here today and gone tomorrow

A wave tossed in the ocean

A vapor in the wind

Still You hear me when I'm calling

Lord You catch me when I'm falling

And You told me who I am

I am Yours



Not because of who I am

But because of what You've done

Not because of what I've done

But because of who You are



I am a flower quickly fading

Here today and gone tomorrow

A wave tossed in the ocean

A vapor in the wind

Still You hear me when I'm calling

Lord You catch me when I'm falling

You told me who I am

I am Yours, I am Yours, I am Yours



Whom shall I fear?

Whom shall I fear?

'Cause I am Yours, I am Yours

Mission Lazarus

Mission Lazarus is a holistic ministry that focuses on basic primary education, skill development, health education and treatment, agricultural development, and preaching and teaching the Word of God.

http://www.missionlazarus.org/

Jarrod Brown, the CEO and president of Mission Lazarus, came and spoke to our class a few months ago about the work going on here and it just blew me away! Let's take today and pray for the children who call Mission Lazarus home and for all of the staff who work day after day to make this a successful ministry.

Ephesians 6:18-19 (New Living Translation)

Pray in the Spirit at all times and on every occasion. Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all believers everywhere.

Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think

Romans 12:2 (New International Version)
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

and here is the same verse from a different translation...

Romans 12:2 (New Living Translation)
Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.

When the communications team started this blog, we wanted it to be a place where we could share information but also where as a class we could have a conversation -- a place where ideas are shared and in return our relationship with God and with each other becomes even stronger.

As we are going through this process of letting God transform us...what are the most difficult aspects of that process? What are the easiest? Why do we push away from God instead of letting him guide us through the transformation process?

Sometimes, I fear God's transformation just because I always assume that it means something bad (or something I perceive as "bad") has to happen in my life in order for that transformation to occur. For instance, you go through a hard time and someone says - God is using this to build your character or to strengthen you for something else in the future.

What are your thoughts on Romans 12:2?

Service Project....Feeding the Homeless

Valentine's Class Dinner

Hello everyone!  As mentioned this past Sunday, we have planned a dinner for our class on Friday, February 12.  We will be reserving a space at Carabba's for 6:00 p.m. that evening. 

 

If you are interested in coming, please reply to this email by this Wednesday, February 3.  You DO NOT have to commit at this time but we do need to know how many are interested so that we can reserve enough space at the restaurant.  We would need a definite answer by the following Wednesday so that we could give the restaurant an accurate count. 

 

Also, anyone who will be flying single that night because their spouse is in the Baja, firehall, etc., you are still more than welcome to attend. 

 

Thanks,

 

Rebecca Hill

Kate Cagle

Tara Minor

Ashley Essner

Announcements 1-31-10

Mayfair Health Fair next Sat, 2/6, 9a-1p.

There was a sign up sheet for class set-up.  Email Daniel Yokley if you can help with the chairs but didn't get to sign up.

Fellowship activity Fri, Feb. 12.   Click HERE for more details.