The Usual.....

Here's a song that Will Stoltz sings that I really like. I often think of the song "What a beautiful day for my Lord to come again" and this song is kinda similar.

Long Expected Day
Oh, long expected day begin,
The night has been so long;
Our weary souls are waiting now,
As watchmen for the dawn.

How long oh, Lord, must we hold on
And cry these earthly tears,
Til we look up and in the clouds
You suddenly appear?

Chorus: Oh, long expected day, begin,
With shouts of joy, and glad amens,
When ev’ry eye beholds Your glorious face,
On that long expected day!

Lord, haste the day when You make new
The heavens and the earth;
And then at last we breathe the air
That’s free from Eden’s curse!

For now we trust, we hope, we pray
As we walk through days so dark;
Your promises remain our strength,
And we will not lose heart!

This week was pretty normal. Thursday night I sang in my little quartet at the Cocalico home. I love our little quartet. You see, I have all this music inside me that just has to come out or I WILL GO CRAZY! It's my favorite way to worship God. I don't blame Paul and Silas for singing in jail. I would too! Probably not the kinda songs they sang though. LOL! I can imagine they sang praise songs and I would probably sing "Oh long expected day" or songs like that but I'm sure I'd sing. Thursday night was sang "Even so Come Lord Jesus" and we sang it will all our hearts, especially on the last verse and I just thought my Lord HAD to come bursting through the clouds to beam His church up to Him! One of my "impossible dreams that I know won't happen" is for my quartet to sing in Israel at the different religious sights that I saw on my 2 times there. I tell you, it was TORTURE not to be able to sing with them there. It's just not the same singing with others you don't know as well. Anyway, enough about singing because I know most of my readers are not singers so this is all a bunch of blah blah shut up stuff!:)

Last night the Heart to Heart Tuesday night shelter group ate out in celebration of another year the Lord let us go into the shelter to witness. I think it's around 7/8 years now, not sure. Seems like forever anyway. I get weary of it every now and then because it's every single Tuesday night and that means I never get to do anything else on a Tuesday night and no matter how full my week is I am away every single Tuesday night. I love being in there though. Some weeks it is a dry group and I think it was just time spent and nothing else. Then there's alot of times I connect with some and make friends and can't wait to go in to see them again. There's a few that write me after they are out of the shelter and that is a real treat. There are 2 I am currently in touch with. I was in touch with a 3rd that I was all excited about and now she won't answer calls or texts and I don't have her address. I am praying we reconnect because she lives in Lancaster and I hadn't seen her for 5 years or so and she just had a baby. I was SOOOOOOO excited to see her and was going to visit her when suddenly she won't answer calls anymore. So frustrating, of the hundreds of girls I met, she was one of the 5 favorites! We had written at least 2 years after she'd gotten out of the shelter.

Well, I hope to have a Bible study tonight but if that falls through then I will certainly go to church. My church has a service and Cornerstone has a service and both are having preachers from White Oak church of the Brethren. But the Bible study comes first because it's been long since we've had one.

Well, bed is calling me.