Song of a Sparrow

Just got back from a fabulous weekend that if I ever find a spare minute I will take the time to update/ include pictures of the fun festivities.  Nevertheless it is back to reality with a day of clinic treatment, audiology hours, a project of transcribing the speech and language samples of a largely unintelligible one year old, realizing I have to take the time to cook because there is nothing readily available to eat in my apartment, and studying for an exam that I really should have taken more time to study for... Ah life!  And I am not complaining... in fact here I am wasting time blogging.  But I had to because while there are 30 million other things in my life that need attention and another million things in my head that would probably be more interesting to blog about, I have to say the words that I must share (today and always) are about obedience.  I took a little time to play some guitar when (I really want to talk to my friends on the phone or watch a movie or read) really

"The power that raised Him from the grave Now works in us to powerfully save. He frees our hearts to live His grace; Go tell of His goodness!" Have been listening to this song all week, so appropriate considering Easter is coming, but this is a song I pray my heart will sing everyday.  Be lifted up just knowing that no matter what happens in this life, Christ is Risen, He is Risen Indeed! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4E9s_W0sos

"Teach me your way, O LORD, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear Your Name. I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify Your Name forever." Yes, Lord! Unite my heart that I may give thanks with my whole heart. Do not let my heart desire anything but You alone. Amen

"No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.   For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,   nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."  Romans 8:37-39 Sometimes I question if Speech Pathology is really where I should be simply because I just want to be with people.  I can't save anyone, that's God's job, but I do find great joy in building relationships and encouraging people and sharing with them Author of my faith.  And I think sometimes, I don't want to go to work, I just want to spend time with people.  Going out to lunch, listening to their problems, being a friend.  Being a friend is my profession, being a student of Speech Therapy is my hobby.  haha.  I'm not always good at it, but it's what I want to do.  I know that I can do t

Every day is a new adventure or battle.  I sometimes feel I really have no words to say because it's all the same.  Get up and face the world, acknowledge your dependence on God in the face of trials, and trust in dark times that He is still Sovereign.  I think my little battles with learning to live more Biblically and more obediently are difficult.  Until I hear of news that is far worse than a failing grade on an exam... Yesterday yet another person threw himself off the platform of the train station on Long Island (I'm sad to say it happens a lot) and sometimes it is hard to understand God's role in all of this.  This idea of free will and allowing people to not come to know who He is and how He saves is such a mystery to me.  Is it for lack of people taking up their cross and sharing the Gospel, or because this person chose not to believe in God?  How could a person be left to a point of such hopelessness as to take his own life?  If it breaks my heart, how much more

http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/single-satisfied-and-sent-mission-for-the-not-yet-married Just read it.  I couldn't say it better.

Lord, grant to me the gift of Great-Faith in these times of struggle, amidst feelings of defeat. Dear Reader, I'm sorry if I am redundant quoting other people all the time instead of just saying things myself, but it is amazing the number of ways God speaks to us and through us.  Once again Spurgeon's daily devotional drops into my email box and puts my gloomy attitude into perspective: Little-faith says, "It is a rough road, beset with sharp thorns, and full of dangers; I am afraid to go;" but Great-faith remembers the promise, "Your bars shall be iron and bronze, and as your days, so shall your strength be"; and so she boldly ventures. Little-faith stands despondently, mingling her tears with the flood; but Great-faith sings, "When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you," and she crosses the stream at once. Father, Son, and Spirit, let not these battles be the breaking of my l

Just be reminded today that He does hear and He does answer prayers.  He is faithful indeed! If you've been reading my blog you know I've been complaining a bit about the work load and feeling stressed.  Do I still have work ahead of me?  Indeed, but I have to say prayer changes things. This morning I prayed remembering that God is who I am dependent on, not myself.  That He is merciful by making me go do my work instead of giving me the day off, because in His plan He knows what fruit that work may produce.  I asked Him this morning to "take me deeper than my feet could ever wander, and my faith will be made stronger in the presence of my Savior"(see the song I posted last time).  Trials shall be overcome not by looking at what we have ahead to tackle, but by looking at the Unchanging God.  Our moods don't have to shift with the trials and blessings of life because if we focus on our Lord who is Steadfast and True.  There are so many things I could write abou