November 29, 2005

  • God's power. Hm. I feel like I've seen God's power displayed a lot in my life. As I was walking yesterday, I was thinking about the answer to my own question in the previous post...

    How has God, or more specifically, the power of God changed my (your) life?

    There really is so much...my first thought is the parable of talents. I live my life understanding that God has given me gifts, and that I should invest them for His glory. However, in anything I do, I also understand that God is the power behind me, driving me, guiding me. I also know that what I do won't succeed unless God is in it. So the power of God has been displayed for me in the sucessess that I've had, and the failures. In my successes, I've seen God work amazingly through the circumstances and events that take place surrounding that event or events. In addition, I've seen how powerful God is when His blessing is missing from my life--because when that happens, my failure is so evident and so transparant to me. When I fail, I look back and say to myself, "oh man, I wish I would have done what God wanted instead of what I wanted, so His power would've been displayed..."

    hmm...I wonder if all of that makes sense. Anyway-a good point to ponder if you haven't already...
    God's power on display...it really is all around us...

    pray for this week! rehearsals!! Shows!!! AHHHHHHHHH!!

Comments (4)

  • 6:27 AM? I think Xanga should be closed at 6:27 AM.

    Ok, not that you asked for my opinion, but after much listening to the CD you gave me and looking at (Did I say practicing? No, I literally mean "looking at") the music, here are my opinions:

    Not that you asked for my opinion, but here it is:
    1. Gloria – I dig it. Always have, always will.
    2. Christmas Fantasia – The transition into God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen makes me want to dance like a little mischievous pixie. I can’t guarantee that I won’t dance like a little mischievous pixie in the concert. And I might have to teach Mel the little mischievous pixie dance so we can dance it together.
    3. Night of Miracles – Dig it.
    4. Mary Did You Know? – Dig it.
    5. Spirit of the Season – Whoever wrote the horn part is on crack, and he didn’t share with me. If he had shared with me, I would probably think that I have superhuman french horn skills, the kind necessary to play this part. Please tell me this is like the first song of the concert.
    6. The First Noel – Ahhhhhh! What’s with all the funky gross parallel chords in the beginning? Blech. I like the verse that the men sing, though.
    7. Festival of Carols – Neutral.
    8. Winter Medley – Dude. What’s with the guy who sings the solo on the CD? No, but I like this one overall. Good crowd-pleaser.
    9. We Three Kings – LOVE. A lot. My favorite of the bunch. This song always makes me think of this thing my family always watches at Christmas called Claymation Christmas, which is pretty much the coolest Christmas video ever. It has camels singing We Three Kings. You can’t beat singing camels.
    10. Sing We Now of Christmas – Dig it.

  • Ok, who's the arranger on these? Is Gloria the Smitty version? Old school UCO? What about... oh, I guess I'll just do the list, too.

    1. Killer piano licks. I'm playing it at CHS.
    2. dunno this one
    3. Can't imagine there's another one than the one I know.
    4. Mark Hayes? Bruce Greer? Is this the UCO one? An a cappella "loo loo loo" one?
    5. Definitely the opening song for Celebrate Christmas this year... yay for Polar Express!
    6. Neufeld? Shack? Whose?
    7. Festival of Carols. Doesn't ring a bell.
    8. Is this Carmichael? aka Christmas '73?
    9. Also don't know.
    10. Mark Hayes? white cover with green border?

    Why do I care so much? This has nothing to do with your blog. Oh well. :)

  • scott, you're funny. 

    heidi, love the list.  I'm a lister....  well....of course we would both be listers.

    daniel....nice job picking songs. i like playing them.  you win.

  • Gosh, you ask such a loaded question.  Not a day goes by that I don't see how God is changing me.  The way I think, feel, love, hate (I'm learning to hate the sin and not the sinner), and on, and on, and on... God changes me in ways that is so hard to describe and even harder to understand.  What's so revealing is that I don't have to understand and I have to do is TRUST IN THE LORD!!! 

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