Move Me

I love this song by Echoing Angels... I was listening to it on their website today (www.echoingangels.com) and I just felt like the first verse especially applied to me the past few weeks; not every day, but often. I love it. All of their songs are amazing, especially You Alone and Hallelujah and this one. I love worship music. :-)


Move Me

Shannon Cochran, Chris Peevy and Scotty Wilbanks

Here I am, come move me

For I am standing still

Take my hand and guide me

Closer to your will

I’m like a cry without the tears

Like a heart without the fears

I want you to want me

I know that I need you

I want you to want me

Because I want you

For so long I’ve wasted

This life you’ve given me

I felt and tasted

But I have never seen

I’m like a cry without the tears

Like a heart without the fears

Chorus

When it’s all said and done

When it’s finally over

I know this is true

I may still be standing here

But I’ll be moved by you

Chorus

Because I want you

I need you

I want you

I need you

I want you

I need you

I want you

A day in room 112

I can't say enough how much God has blessed me in my life right now. Just being here is an amazing gift. Yesterday in a CCA (Center For Constructive Alternatives) lecture the evening speaker said he thinks far too many people go to college. I disagree. Well, I don't think everyone needs to go to college, but I do think everyone needs an opportunity to learn about Aristotle and Benjamin Franklin and Machiavelli and Dostoyevsky. We read here; that's all- guided discussion, good explanations. So if people can learn what we learn here without coming here, then they ought to do it. I don't see how a man who has benefited from his education and the person it made him can say that not everyone should improve themselves by learning to reason and remember.
Actual classes are only one way i've been blessed here! My roommate is so wonderful. She and I are so close already, and she's such an encouragement. Please pray that she can come back next year! If she doesn't have enough money, she'll have to go to Eastern MI instead, and I will be very very sad.
Our friends right around the coner and up the stairs are amazing too. Amy and Natlie and Mary Beth all pretty much live in mine and Clara's room, anyway :-) They're here almost evening to talk and do homework. I love it.
My everyday life has its little blessings too. Right now I have Bebo Norman's new CD turned all the way up (not very loud) and am singing right along.. because Clara's in class ;) I would be so sad without my music every day. I would rather sing than drink coffee.. and that's something I love alot too :-)
Constantly on my mind? New Horse!! He's big enough for the boys to ride, so he's sort of everyone's, but he happens to be my dream horse, so I'm really excited. He's a big, beautiful Throroughbred gelding, affectionately known as "my man". lol.
Actually, the greatest blessing is that God walks alongside me every day giving me strength. I get tired, and I get tired of studying. I miss my family, all of you, and I miss home. But Mom and Dad support me, and He holds my hand every minute and makes it beautiful. Thank you, Father, for everything. :-)

Swing Fridays and Jesus

Every Friday here at Hillsdale is swing club. Before I came, I had never learned any dance, but now Clara, Amy, Natalie, and I go every week, and it's so fun. It's a nice thing to look forward to on the last, tired day of the week, and it's so fun to see people and dance together!
Tonight we learned the Shag, which is a lot like East Coast swing, but I think it's more fun. We were there for three hours; one of those hours was a shag lesson, and the other two was just dancing. Natalie's amazing, so she got a lot of dances, and Clara's just learning but she's also good, and she got plenty; Amy's adorable and is also learning, and she got several dances, including several in a row when Tom and Keaton were teaching her. I danced with the girls when they weren't dancing with guys- I'm still learning almost everything, and I don't have Clara and Natalie's natural ability, so I didn't get any dances until the end of the dance, when Tom asked me to dance. He asked if I knew the lindy, which I don't, because I missed that week, and so he just started dancing... I followed and had a blast, just following what he led, and I didn't realize until the dance was over and I watched he and Clara do the same thing that he'd just taught me the lindy! Unfortunately I didn't know that so I doubt I could do it again! Unless it's with Tom. Next week i'll just have him teach me again.
Being "resuced" from a sad lack of dances by Tom started me thinking about how Jesus rescues us. We wait around, hoping for some kind of dance to come along, and then He comes and shows us something we never knew. Suddenly our perception of what is amazing is changed, and we fall in love with the Perfect One. The song we danced to was Accidentally In Love, which I think is fitting, because just like you don't really accidentally fall in love but rather discover how wonderful your new love is, God knows we'll fall in love with Him if we'll accept Him. That is not to say I'm in love with Tom, of course, but that I am in love with God! I pray that I will not be distracted by lesser joys, but rather hold onto what I know is best.

I Will Lift My Eyes
Written by Bebo Norman and Jason Ingram

God, my God, I cry out
Your beloved needs You now
God, be near, calm my fear
And take my doubt

Your kindness is what pulls me up
Your love is all that draws me in

I will lift my eyes to the Maker
Of the mountains I can’t climb
I will lift my eyes to the Calmer
Of the oceans raging wild
I will lift my eyes to the Healer
Of the hurt I hold inside
I will lift my eyes, lift my eyes to You

God, my God, let Mercy sing
Her melody over me
God, right here all I bring
Is all of me

‘Cause You are and You were and You will be forever
The Lover I need to save me
‘Cause You fashioned the earth and You hold it together, God
So hold me now

Written by Bebo Norman and Jason Ingram