So I have been meaning to write this for about a week and never got to it as I was moving but I just found the card that went with mine dining hall gifts and it reminded me. Let me go back. School ended one week ago, it was the end of my fourth year of college. Well if you have read my last blog you know that a lot will be changing this fall. One of those is that I will no longer be working in the dining hall (where I have worked for four years). As a former supervisor and four year worker I received some gifts and a card signed by everyone. That is the card I am talking about.
Anyway back to the point of this blog. As I am leaving the dining hall and CCU I look at all the people I've met and I am reminded of a song. This was a song I learned in HS choir and have loved it ever since. The song is For Good from the Musical Wicked. Check out the lyrics:
I've heard it said
That people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are led
To those who help us most to grow
If we let them
And we help them in return
Well, I don't know if I believe that's true
But I know I'm who I am today
Because I knew you...
Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
I have been changed for good
It well may be
That we will never meet again
In this lifetime
So let me say before we part
So much of me
Is made of what I learned from you
You'll be with me
Like a handprint on my heart
And now whatever way our stories end
I know you have re-written mine
By being my friend...
Like a ship blown from its mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a skybird
In a distant wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
Because I knew you
I have been changed for good
And just to clear the air
I ask forgiveness
For the things I've done you blame me for
But then, I guess we know
There's blame to share
And none of it seems to matter anymore
Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood
Like a ship blown from its mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a bird in the wood
Who can say if I've been
Changed for the better?
I do believe I have been
Changed for the better
And because I knew you...
Because I knew you...
Because I knew you...
I have been changed for good.
I really like this song because it speaks to so many of the emotions I feel as I get ready to leave. Having attended CCU for four years and met a lot of people and having may people I consider my friends has changed me. While I will miss everyone that I don't get to see often or ever again in this life, I look forward to remembering the good times and hearing about what happened to you after I left CCU when we both get to heaven.
To those who read this and are my friends, thanks for all the good times and I pray we will continue them even after this but if not know that I am changed because of you and I hope that I have changed you as well.
God Bless and in Christ's Love
Jeremy
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Pray For You
Anyone who listens to country is bound to have heard the song by Jaran and the Long Road to Love called Pray For You. It is quite a humorous song about a man who is praying bad things on the his former lover. Check out the lyrics:
I havent been to church since I don’t remember when
Things were goin’ great ‘til they fell apart again
So I listened to the preacher as he told me what to do
He said you can’t go hatin’ others who have done wrong to you
Sometimes we get angry, but we must not condemn
Let the good Lord do His job and you just pray for them
I pray your brakes go out runnin’ down a hill
I pray a flowerpot falls from a window sill and knocks you in the head like I’d like to
I pray your birthday comes and nobody calls
I pray you’re flyin’ high when your engine stalls
I pray all your dreams never come true
Just know whereever you are honey, I pray for you
I’m really glad I found my way to church
‘Cause I’m already feelin’ better and I thank God for the words
Yeah I’m goin’ take the high road
And do what the preacher told me to do
You keep messin’ up and I’ll keep prayin’ for you
I pray your tire blows out at 110
I pray you pass out drunk with your best friend and wake up with his and her tattoos
I pray your brakes go out runnin’ down a hill
I pray a flowerpot falls from a window sill and knocks you in the head like I’d like to
I pray your birthday comes and nobody calls
I pray you’re flyin’ high when your engine stalls
I pray all your dreams never come true
Just know whereever you are, near or far, in your house or in your car,
wherever you are honey, I pray for you.
I pray for you
I am doing a lesson with this song as an example in the morning so I thought I would jot down some thoughts in my blog. The first time I heard this song I just laughed but right after that one of the first thoughts to cross my mind was how often does this happen with Christians. See so often we have people in our lives that do things to us or we just don't like and while we don't necessarily go as far as this song does but we do things that might be seen as the same thing. We talk behind their back, we start rumors, or we just plain ignore them and maybe cheer for the bad things that do happen. This just isn't right. In my opinion Paul very plainly speaks against this type of behavior. Lets look at Ephesians 4:29
29 When you talk, do not say harmful things, but say what people need—words that will help others become stronger. Then what you say will do good to those who listen to you. (NCV)
It seems plain by this verse that we need to only speak well of others. Yet we don't. Division forms in churches, friends separate, and families fight because of the words that we say. As Christians it is important to remember that one of the commands Jesus gave us was to love each other. Talking about someone or even praying against them goes against this command. If more people would follow this then the church would probably be growing like mad. My goal in life is to avoid doing this to people and hopefully it can be for some other people too.
God Bless and in Christ's Love
Jeremy
I havent been to church since I don’t remember when
Things were goin’ great ‘til they fell apart again
So I listened to the preacher as he told me what to do
He said you can’t go hatin’ others who have done wrong to you
Sometimes we get angry, but we must not condemn
Let the good Lord do His job and you just pray for them
I pray your brakes go out runnin’ down a hill
I pray a flowerpot falls from a window sill and knocks you in the head like I’d like to
I pray your birthday comes and nobody calls
I pray you’re flyin’ high when your engine stalls
I pray all your dreams never come true
Just know whereever you are honey, I pray for you
I’m really glad I found my way to church
‘Cause I’m already feelin’ better and I thank God for the words
Yeah I’m goin’ take the high road
And do what the preacher told me to do
You keep messin’ up and I’ll keep prayin’ for you
I pray your tire blows out at 110
I pray you pass out drunk with your best friend and wake up with his and her tattoos
I pray your brakes go out runnin’ down a hill
I pray a flowerpot falls from a window sill and knocks you in the head like I’d like to
I pray your birthday comes and nobody calls
I pray you’re flyin’ high when your engine stalls
I pray all your dreams never come true
Just know whereever you are, near or far, in your house or in your car,
wherever you are honey, I pray for you.
I pray for you
I am doing a lesson with this song as an example in the morning so I thought I would jot down some thoughts in my blog. The first time I heard this song I just laughed but right after that one of the first thoughts to cross my mind was how often does this happen with Christians. See so often we have people in our lives that do things to us or we just don't like and while we don't necessarily go as far as this song does but we do things that might be seen as the same thing. We talk behind their back, we start rumors, or we just plain ignore them and maybe cheer for the bad things that do happen. This just isn't right. In my opinion Paul very plainly speaks against this type of behavior. Lets look at Ephesians 4:29
29 When you talk, do not say harmful things, but say what people need—words that will help others become stronger. Then what you say will do good to those who listen to you. (NCV)
It seems plain by this verse that we need to only speak well of others. Yet we don't. Division forms in churches, friends separate, and families fight because of the words that we say. As Christians it is important to remember that one of the commands Jesus gave us was to love each other. Talking about someone or even praying against them goes against this command. If more people would follow this then the church would probably be growing like mad. My goal in life is to avoid doing this to people and hopefully it can be for some other people too.
God Bless and in Christ's Love
Jeremy
Friday, May 7, 2010
Starting Out
For a while now I have been thinking about putting the many random thoughts that go through my head down in writing. Well this post marks the official start of doing this and (what will probably be a horrible) my career as a blogger. If you want to know some more about me check out my Google profile. (see link)
What can you expect to find here? Anything that goes on in my head that I feel like writing down. For those who know me this might be a scary thing and you know what, you are probably 100% right. As the title states this blog is for my thoughts (which are random at best), my critiques (meaning when I am upset and writing probably), and anything else I find interesting or just feel like sharing.
In writing this post my thoughts turn toward new beginnings because as I write this a chapter of my life is coming to an end. By the end of summer I will be full time at a new school, I just started a my first new job in almost four years, I will have my own place somewhere in Cincinnati, I will be a paid youth minister for the first time, and who knows what other beginnings are around the corner for me. Its kind of scary actually, especially since I am still trying to make sure all of these things happen. Yet through all this I am really not that worried. Over the years God has taught me a lot and one of the things that he has taught me is that no matter what happens it will work out for my best. He makes sure of it. I look forward to what he has in store for me.
However in looking forward, there is always a glance behind. I look back and see the many friends I have made over my 4 years at CCU. Having been on outreach for three summers I have a lot of friends scattered across the US (although mainly in the east). I think back to some of my ideas coming into school and how I view them now. How about what I thought about the city and things like that. Or what about the fact that after only three and half years of attending River Hills Christian Church, I am getting ready to step up and be the middle school minister (Lord, I pray I am ready for that). To think how far I have come in just those four years (although at times I swear it is much more than four) is absolutely astounding to me. The blessings of the Lord are apparent and I can not thank him enough for the blessings he has reigned down on me.
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God Bless and in Christ's Love
Jeremy
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