Just a Note

Just a note to say we're back! We have had a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful weekend. Our prayers were truly answered, and a big thank you to all of you who were praying too! Caroline is currently in the process of making a picture post so you all can see some of our memories, but let me tell you, it is quite the job. Is it possible to take to many pictures? I'm thinking so. Anyway, while you are waiting for that post, let me share one of my favorite memories from the weekend.

We were all sitting around a bonfire on Sunday evening. We had just returned from hearing three excellent and challenging sermons at church, and I believe that we all had much on our minds. I can't begin to tell you what an encouragement it is to spend an entire weekend with a group of young people from sister churches, many of whom are Christians. We had many conversations around the bonfire that night, mostly about what our country needs ( we all agreed it isn't Obama), but they all seemed to turn back to the fact that God is in control.

Dear brother and sister in Christ, does this truth cause your heart to be still? Or do you bite your nails and pull out your hair like those in the world who have no hope? Do you believe that the God of the universe has no power over the hearts of men?

I had all of these things on my heart when we sang my favorite hymn around the fire. This will be a precious memory for years to come.

It is Well

When peace like a river attendeth my way

When sorrows like sea billows roll,

Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say,

It is well, it is well with my soul.

Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,

Let this blest assurance control,

That Christ has regarded my helpless estate

And has shed His own blood for my soul.

My sin, oh the bliss of this glorious thought,

My sin, not in part, but the whole,

Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,

Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, oh my soul!

Than Lord, hast the day when my faith shall be sight,

The clouds be rolled back as a scroll,

The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend,

"Even so", it is well with my soul.

~Horatio G. Spafford

posted by Lydia