~ Bright Lights Leaders Training ~

2006

The "Minnesotans" that all rode down together!

I've learned so much at this training, I feel like I have grown closer to God, and really been bestowed with a burden to serve & minister.

~ In Christ Alone ~

This is the song that really impacted me this week

In Christ Alone LyricsIn Christ alone my hope is found
He is my light, mystrength, my song
This Cornerstone, this solid ground
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
What heightsof love, what depths of peace
When fears are stilled, whenstrivings cease
My Comforter, my All in All
Here inthe love of Christ I stand

In Christ alone, who took on flesh
Fullness of God in helpless babe
This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones He came to save
'Till on that cross as Jesus died
The wrath of God was satisfied
For every sin on Him was laid

Here in the death of Christ I live
There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain
Then bursting forth in glorious Day
Up from the grave He rose again
And as He stands in victory
Sin's curse has lost it's grip on me
For I am His and He ismine
Brought with the precious blood of Christ

No guilt in life, no fear in death
This is the power ofChrist in me
From life's first cry to final breath
Jesus commands my destiny
No power of hell, no scheme ofman
Can ever pluck me from His hand
'Till He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I'll stand

WHOOPING COUGH

Well we have "it", yes the lovely, never ending coughing that leaves you breathless and feeling like your drowning out of water. My younger siblings have turned every shade of red, blue, purple, and green that's humanly possible (and some that arn't!)

Thankfully I don't think I every actually got "it". My dad and I took the drugs so that if we did have it we wouldn't be contagious and if we didn't have it we, hopfully, wounldn't get it. I'm coughing a little but I think it's still from the cold i've had for the last 2 months.

Mom took all the kids up north to my Aunts cabin, she needed to get them out of the house, but the're not supposed to be around people; so she had to find somewhere she could take them where there are no people. They should be having fun, staring out the windows at a lake that it's to cold to do anything on, and going crazy in a little cabin (well actully I'm pretty sure the're going to watch TV the whole time.)

As for me, i'm sitting here in our freezing house, we have no heat, trying to write my debate lesson for tonight! Yes, that's why i'm updating my blog, I have debate class writing block. Anybody else want to teach my class tonight?

Yes, life is fun (and at the moment COLD!) I'm looking forward to being done writing my lesson, thus I should probably get back at it.

Ya'll need to come visit me sometime, I'm lonely!

In Christ ~ Lydia