PRAISE THE Lord! For it is good to sing praises to our God, for He is gracious and lovely; praise is becoming and appropriate. The Lord is building up Jerusalem; He is gathering together the exiles of Israel. He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds [curing their pains and their sorrows].He determines and counts the number of the stars ( Read more... )

I am a follower of Jesus. I’ve considered myself a Christian for many years; I grew up in the church, I was a good little conservative home-schooled girl. I did all the right things and said all the right words ( Read more... )

Malcolm Dalglish is SOOOO good ( Read more... )

I have a piano student and she just started today. I am SO EXCITED! I'm getting PAID for this?? I had a BLAST, she is a sponge and a total joy and ADORABLE and highly motivated ( Read more... )

It's interesting how much the acoustics of a room affect the tuning of a usually very good choir ( Read more... )

If Jesus Christ a Gard'ner be who plants the seeds of life on earth,
And I myself am like a tree sprung up from soil of Love's new birth,
Then Jesus Christ must know the way to make me grow.

My weary roots were weak with thirst, these wilted leaves were dropping down,
The Gard'ner in his love immersed my soul and all my sins were drowned.
Then Jesus I ( Read more... )

Dr. Mortensen wrote some verses specific to Midtown to go with the chorus to "Lord Have Mercy." It helps me to direct my attention to crying out to the Creator to come and HEAL this broken world ( Read more... )

I puked up two papers today. One is terrible and due tomorrow, and the other isn't due til next Wednesday. But I suddenly remembered its existence, and I felt the spirit move to write. And I probably just wrote one of the best 30-minute right-before-bed papers I've ever written ( Read more... )

My tentative schedule for next semester ( Read more... )

List seven songs you are into right now, no matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LiveJournal along with your seven songs ( Read more... )