I spent all day yesterday vomitting and feeling sick. It was terrible. I just couldn't take the pain. And I couldn't keep my eyes open. I guess there was nothing in my stomach and nothing going into my blood stream, so my blood sugar was low, so I couldn't stay awake. Well, I anointed myself with the consecrated olive oil and I prayed...and it went away within the following 2 hours or so, after having it all day. The Lord is good. Merciful. I'm trying to take better care of myself now. Eater more times per day, and better foods. Chewing more. Appreciating it. And I'm going to bed earlier. As soon as I'm strong enough to exercise again... I'll do that. And I'm trying to clean my room of all the dust that's built up from my vacation from cleaning it. I wont even mention how long that's been going on. Talk to you laters.
The band's name is Airgo. Today is the day of the band. Luke, Jessica, and I are going to perform first. We don't have a proper name for the song, but I pray that a proper name be given to us. But we do know this, we do this in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Nothing wavering.
So now I'm going to pray, study scripture, then go rehearse. We perform tonight at 7. I might look back at this post later on from now... and wonder...wow... That was the time when we did that talent show. I would have known the result. What had happened. And I'd have been happy. That whatsoever happens, we did in Jesus Christ's name. The Lord will be the judge on who will win in the end. He is the judge, and not us. But just as Jesus Christ has 100% victory over the world, we're going to strive to win. Setting ourselves on the higher things, but making ourselves low so that He might raise us up to be first. Whoever's first will be last and whosoever's last shall be first, He says. This is true today. Last talent show we were dead-center in the middle, number 22 out of 42 performers. I prayed. And I asked the Lord to make us first since we're making ourselves last. And today, He fulfilled that prayer. We are number 1. Performing first. And now... I'm going to go and make ourselves last again. So He might do what He wills us to do.
Thank you Lord.
Cheers to those who care about us and pray for us. Luke, Jessica, Isaac D., and Marley D.
I had a very hard day. Death threats...dirty looks...yelling...arguments...all in a days work. Now I want to sleep and I can't sleep. Writing a letter to Carolyn. Had a nice conversation with Matt. I don't usually talk about anything worldly in this blog. I saw War of the Worlds the other day. Thought it was the greatest movie I'd seen in months. Then was shocked to see Tom Cruise, the lead actor, on the front page of the newspaper boosting a thing called Scientology. Thought it was strange, but I didn't get a chance to read too much into it because I had to cater to another customer's impatience soonafter. Oh well. It is my mum's birthday! She turns 51! YAY! Good thing to think about. :-) Have a nice night, everyone. A nice, patience-filled night.
"And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful." "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord." "And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him." Colossians Chapter 3, Verse 15-17.
This is what was in our hearts when we passed the semi-finals. Now, we're preparing with the same Word in heart for the finals. We have a song written out that I prayed about and now it gets harder. For me and the rest of the band. James...I need to get James into everything better. Heavenly Father keep James with us...is what I will ask. It's amazing - I have terrible timing. I need to work on that. It's with complex rhythms. The human heart is like a metronome. So I'm going to take it with prayer and petition, and work it out. I also need to write Carolyn a letter. And Matt. Where are you, Matt? Are you okay? I bet Carolyn's living it up, but I miss her a lot. Miss her few words. And my struggling to find the words to tell her. Oh well. I'll go to sleep now. I have 2 and a half hours before I have to get up to go to work. Please continue to pray for us. :-) You do more than you know by including us in your thoughts in prayer to our Lord.
Tomorrow we're going to the semi-finals to try to get to the finals. Baby Boy, our drummer, has lost contact with the band. Please pray that the Lord Jesus Christ gives us the strength to do it. I also have to work from 9:45 to 3PM the same day. Hard. The impossibility comes in that there will be 42 people that are going to be there, performing. We're trying to do well. Among all of these people. But. We have faith. And we have Jesus Christ.
