the smell of rain

for the past two nights there has been lightning flashes and thunderstorm with pelting rain….

im reminded of home

The Lost get found- Britt Nicole

Hello my friend
I remember when you were
So alive with your wide eyes
Then the light that you had in your heart was stolen
Now you say that it ain’t worth stayin’
You wanna run but you’re hesitatin’
I’m talkin’ to me

Don’t let your lights go down
Don’t let your fire burn out
‘Cause somewhere, somebody needs a reason to believe
Why don’t you rise up now?
Don’t be afraid to stand out
That’s how the lost get found
The lost get found

So when you get the chance
Are you gonna take it?
There’s a really big world at your fingertips
And you know you have the chance to change it
There’s a girl on the streets, she’s cryin’
There’s a man whose faith is dyin’
Love is calling you

Don’t let your lights go down
Don’t let your fire burn out
‘Cause somewhere, somebody needs a reason to believe
Why don’t you rise up now?
Don’t be afraid to stand out
That’s how the lost get found
The lost get found

Why do we go with the flow
Or take an easier road?
Why are we playin’ it safe?
Love came to show us the way
Love is a chance we should take
I’m movin’ out of the way

Don’t let your lights go down
Don’t let your fire burn out
‘Cause somewhere, somebody needs a reason to believe
(Stand out)
Don’t let your lights go down
Don’t let your fire burn out
(Stand out)
‘Cause somewhere, somebody needs a reason to believe
Why don’t you rise up now?
Don’t be afraid to stand out
That’s how the lost get found
The lost get found

So when you get the chance
Are you gonna take it?
There’s a really big world at your fingertips
And you know you have the chance to change it…

chickflick lessons

from the maidinmanhattan:

“we only serve people, we are not their servants. what we do does not define who we are… it is our choice, and what we make of it..” Lionel (some part paraphrased)

passing the baton

091009. A-night 2009.

handing over to the next blessed generation of Committee- all 9 of them plus the Trinity= 12, the number for perfect administration. i am excited!

the night was less emotional that i thought. nothing bad about that… just that i had imagined it differently… but perhaps knowing that i will be hanging around for the next year makes a difference. the latter will be greater. Amen

it feels… like how i perceived giving birth is like. watching the women ‘expel’ the baby which she has been carrying for 9 months (normally)… and having to trust that the baby will grow well, because ultimately the baby grows up to a child to an adolescent to an adult.. and s/he makes her/his own choices. once again medicine has come to be a good analogy-ist.

This song was a gift from the incoming comm to us:

“It’s been a long two years.
It’s time to smile we’ve made it this far just like you said.
Just like you said we would.
There are no more tears.
We’ve used them all so now we’ll rely on our laughter,
And the faith that pain gives joy.

I hope that you can see the strength that pulled us through
Is now passed on to me I need to wear it like you always do.
Like you always do.

This far from home,
It doesn’t feel as far when I know you’re doing well.
Distance is what you make it.
The distance is what you make it.

I hope that you can see the strength that pulled us through
Is now passed on to me I wear it like you always do.
I hope that you can see the strength that pulled us through
(I hope that you can see the strength that pulled us through)
Is now passed on to me I wear it like you always do.
(Is now passed on to me)
Like you always do.

I hope that you can see the strength that pulled us through
(I hope that you can see the strength that pulled us through)
Is now passed on to me I wear it like you always do.
(Is now passed on to me)
I hope that you can see the strength that pulled us through’
(I hope that you can see the strength that pulled us through)
Is now passed on to me I need to wear it like you always do.
(Is now passed on to me)
Like you always do.”- Copeland

therighteous takes it by force vs. belonging to littlechildren

“You are high and lifted up,
More than anything
All creation lifts you higher and higher
We shout this song of victory
We’d keep singing
In Jesus, there’s freedom”- planetshakers

the discernment. the leading of the HolySpirit

the belief, the OpenHeaven, the childlikefaith.

closing the chapter-091009

…. and a new beginning.