Through the Darkness: A Night to Remember

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

A Night to Remember

Last Friday evening I, along with some friends, got the opportunity to sing at a dinner the church school was holding for their High schoolers...it is sorta like their prom except they don't call it that (but rather, "A Night to Remember") and there is no dancing or anything like that. When we first got there we just socialized and found out when we would be performing our songs. Soon came the moment when all my blood rushed to my head out of nervousness. What if I messed up? What if I fall? All these thoughts flooded my mind. Then I was reminded that God would carry me through the whole thing. We got up there and sang our first song entitled "There is a Healer". After we finished we walked silently to our seats and waited for our first course to be served.

The waiters brought out huge, beautiful green salads and bowls of three different salad dressings. Soon came the main dish, which was so beautiful I had to take a picture of it; however, it did not come out well, there was a shadow, so I could not post that one. I had Chicken Parmigiana over noodles. It was amazing! Following the delicious main course was our dessert...I can't really say what it was because the truth is...I don't really know what it was. Whatever it was, it was great!

After everyone finished eating and we were just sitting around waiting for something to happen, the principle of the school came up to our table and asked if we were ready to sing our other two songs. So, we all walked over to the piano and positioned ourselves so that we could be heard well enough. We sang through "I Stand Redeemed" and then "By the Gentle Waters".

When we had finished our last song I felt like crawling into a little hole so that no one could see me any longer. I felt slightly humiliated as I was walking back to my seat...it was completely silent in the room...you would probably have been able to hear a pen drop. Usually at church when we sing we get an amen from at least one person, but not this night...we got silence. I just had to keep reminding myself that we were doing it for the Lord and not the glory of ourselves.

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The rainy Day

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;It rains, and the wind is never weary;The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,But at every gust the dead leaves fall,And the day is dark and dreary.My life is cold, and dark, and dreary;It rains, and the wind is never weary;My thoughts still cling to the mouldering past,But the hopes of the youth fall thick in the blast,And the days are dark and dreary.Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;Thy fate is the common fate of all,Into each life some rain must fall,Some days must be dark and dreary.~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Isaiah 55:8-11~For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

Wings as Eagles

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