Holy Love

Many waters cannot quench your love, rivers cannot overwhelm it

Oceans of fear cannot conceal your love for me

Many waters cannot quench your love, rivers cannot overwhelm it

Oceans of fear cannot conceal your love for me

Your love for me

Chorus:

Holy love, flow in me, fill me up like the deepest sea

Like a crashing wave pouring over me, holy love flow in me

Many sorrows cannot quench your love,

darkness cannot overwhelm it

I will not fear, your love is here to comfort me

Many sorrows cannot quench your love,

darkness cannot overwhelm it

I will not fear, your love is here to comfort me

You comfort me

When I find you I find healing

When I find you I find peace

And I know that there's no river so wide

No mountain so high, no ocean so deep

That you can't part the sea

Holy Love By: Andy Park

Happy Easter

Good Friday

He gave all that He had,

So we could have all that He is.

Thank you Lord

Blisters and a Raise!

Due to Holidays and snowdays, I have had a total of 5 days on the job since I started...three weeks ago...WOO HOO!

It's been an interesting adventure so far...some testing to see who I am, though nothing serious.

I have been given many names...all that have met my ears (so far) are just plain fun.

"Mrs. Marty"...(Marty is the original student supervisor)

"Lady Marty"

"Good Cop"...as in good cop bad cop

and the most popular:

"Chippy's Mom"...Mark's wife, Chippy's mom....soon it will be Kallie's owner....Someday, I will be just ME, sigh....

I have connected with some fun and some attention grabbing kids...most are great. (Quite entertaining to watch a senior chug Coffee in order to avoid having to take it to the cafeteria to drink...HIS idea NOT mine!)

In the midst of it all, I have developed numerous blisters from three hours of walking/standing each day...Principal wasn't kidding when he said I would need a "thick skin"!!!

The best part, yet pretty funny....I got a raise!!!!

I had to check out that this wasn't a mistake, but it seems I am already worth a couple more dollars an hour than I was originally told.

I am not complaining and figure it is just Rhonda's great favor at the school rubbing off on me already. God is good, though I have to giggle...or is it 'laugh all the way to the bank'?

It really DOES PAY to know people!!!!

Beauty in the Detours

This little phrase really caught my attention:

 "Happy is the person who can enjoy the scenery when they have to take a detour"

I never want to be so focused on destinations and end results that I miss the beauty of the path that takes me there.

This becomes more difficult when the path suddenly takes a sharp turn, an apparent 'detour'.

Is that unexpected twist in the road a true detour, or is there something very special along that route that has been divinely staged for my benefit?

I don't want to become so distracted by the twists and turns of life, that I miss the hidden treasures or the breathtaking beauty of the big picture.

Delighting in Him

Most of my life, I have been guilty of being obedient to God out of fear.

The "you better or else...." theology was imbedded in my heart from a very young age. God was someone to be obeyed from a place of seeing Him as the Big Guy with the stick, just waiting for me to mess up, so He could punish me.

I believe God honored much of that obedience because it was obedience....but I also know now that it broke His heart.

He desired for me to delight in my obedience to Him. 

 He wanted me to delight in just being with Him. 

He wanted me to understand His delight in me.

When I was finally able to embrace God and His love and goodness for me, it was then that everything changed.

I can truly say, He has brought me to the high places and continues to take me to new heights in every area.

It is so much greater to soar above it all with Him than to hide under a rock from Him.

No Deserts Here!

Although I will admit that the idea of laying on a beach right now is a very enticing fantasy, I have to say this quote really struck me in light of our fresh dusting of snow today.

Both in our physical world and in our personal lives, it is the (not often welcomed) rains and storms (snow), that when weathered well, create the BEAUTY and LIFE in and around us.