A Lesson From Mud

This last Sunday afternoon, my friend Jennica came over. We decided that we were going to do a photoshoot and we wanted some pictures out in the woods. So we got the gator out and started on our way with props and camera in hand. I figured that if we went along the side of the field, we would do fine. About a 1/4 of a mile from the house, I saw a mud puddle and swerved to go around it but...I had only managed to go around half of it and through the rest of it. So then we were stuck...very stuck. Stranded out in the middle of a corn field and we had no idea what to do. We decided that we would try to push it out ourselves, we decided that we would have to ditch the flip flops and go barefoot in the mud. Well, we may be country girls, but we aren't strong enough to push a gator out of the mud. So we ended up having to walk the 1/4 of a mile back to the house through the muck and corn field and get Dad to go push it out.

As I thought about it...it reminded me of how we need to trust in God. Jennica and I couldn't get the gator out without my Dad's help just like when we get in a mess in life, we can't get out of it without the Lord's help.

Proverbs 3:5 "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart."

Solo & Ensemble 2013

This last Saturday we had our Solo & Ensemble competition in Rice Lake. I played a piano solo, duet, and trio. We were only able to video tape the solo and trio.

 

In the Groove by Robert Vandall
This is the trio that is headed to state on May 4th.

This is my solo.
I played Cakewalk by Debussy. 

Favorite Quotes

Here are just a few of my favorite quotes.

 

"The Christian life can be explained only in terms of Jesus Christ,

and if your life as a Christian can still be explained in terms of you -

your personality, your willpower,

your gift, your talent,

your money, your courage,

your scholarship, your dedication,

your sacrifice, or your anything -

then although you may have the Christian life,

you are not yet living it."
-Ian Thomas

 

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep

to gain what he cannot lose."

-Jim Elliot

 

""God casts our sin into the depths of the sea,

and then He posts a sign that reads:
NO FISHING ALLOWED."

-Corrie ten Boom

 

"Life is not here [on earth],

but his above with Christ in God,

and therein I rejoice and sing as I think on such exaltation."

-Jim Elliot 

Editing Pics

Today I had to stay home from school because I am sick...so what better to do then to edit some pictures? So, here they are.

Mikula Farms

Leah & I

Cali & I

Jimmy & I at the First Annual Dine & Dance

for the Bloomer High School Band.

Sarah, Rachel, and I after we went bowling last Friday.

I just LOVE having Photoshop!!! 

Six years ago today...

This gorgeous little girl landed on US soil.

I can't believe that it has been six years already! She has grown up so much since then.

She has picked on me, made me mad, woken me up because of nightmares, shoved me out of bed,

laughed with me (and at me), and made me a better sister.

I love her and can't imagine life without her.

 

The day we met her.

 

Meeting Grandma

 

Irma and Mom home at last.

They were both SO tired that afternoon after they got home.



It Was For Me

Why leave a heav'nly mansion?

Why choose a simple stall?

Why wander poor and homeless,

The King and Lord of all?
Why heal a lonely beggar?

Why cause the blind to see?

The light of all creation,

Shining there for me.

 

It was for me He cried,

For me He died,

For me He shed His blood upon a tree.

It was for me He came,

For me His shame;

For me, oh praise Him name,

It was for me.

 

Why stay in Olive's garden?

Why spend the night in pray'r?

Why suffer such betrayal -

In anguish kneeling there?

Why leave His mother crying?

Why set Barabas free?
The spotless Lamb of heaven -

Given there for me.

 

It was for me He cried,

For me He died,

For me He shed His blood upon a tree.

It was for me He came,

For me His shame;

For me, oh praise His name,

It was for me.

 

The King who came from heaven,

To the cry, "There is no room,"

Now must lay His weary body -

In a cold and borrowed tomb.

But the grave, it would not hold Him;

Death lost its victory.

The risen Lord of glory -

Is living now for me.

 

It was for me He cried,

For me He died,

For me He shed His blood upon a tree.

It was for me He came,

For me His shame;

For me, oh praise Him name,

It was for me.

 

"The Lord is risen!!!" "He is risen indeed!!!" Today was spent singing a bunch of the old hymns in church and having wonderful fellowship with our church family. The song, "It Was For Me" was sung by our ladies choir this morning. I find it extremely humbling that Jesus Christ died for my sins. He knew how bad of a person I would be, and He still died for me. I should've been the one to die on that cross for my sins.

 

This morning Brother Walter Olson spoke from Matthew 28. In verses five through six, it says; "And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay." All we have to do to be saved is come to the Lord.

 

 

John 11:25

"Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection,

and the life: he that believeth on me,

though he were dead, yet shall he live:"

Philippians 3:13-14

"Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."

Philippians 3:13-14

 

Isn't it just amazing that God is willing to save us from our sins no matter how bad our past is? Even better though is when in Psalm 103:12 it says "As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us." The Lord not only removes them as far as the east is from the west, but He also buries them in the depths of the sea and posts a "NO FISHING ALLOWED" sign. I am so thankful that we serve a loving God. He can take all the baggage from our life before we were saved and He just gets rid of it. Do you know Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour?