Near To The Heart of God

I hope you like this song. It is one of my favorite hymns. I couldn't find a video that was sung quite how I would've liked it, but it's hard for me to dislike a hymn! Feel free to sing along! ;)

This one is just piano, but it has the lyrics. (Perfect for singing!)





This red one has someone singing, if you would rather listen.

They Chose Me!

I hope you like this video. It is a pretty song with a great message!

Have You Read the Famous Book... About Me?

You know, of course, the book is not literally about me, but the two characters depicted through one character shows who I am almost perfectly.

I'm am two in one. One half bad and the other half... worse.

Ephesians 4:22 "that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts"

Colossians 3:5b "Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth"

Colossians 3:9 "Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds"

James 3:10 "Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so."

I struggle with putting to death my worldly self.

"I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange--a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking."

-Dr. Jekyll


"For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do." Romans 7:15b

I feel like I could have written exactly what Paul wrote there. I hate what I do and yet I continue doing it! If I could ever gain more self control!

"What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid! Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin"
Romans 6:1-2b,4-6

Praise the Lord! I do not have to be enslaved to sin; He has set me free!

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Give Away!

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She has a nice blog and is giving away some nice stuff! =)

You can check it out right here.

Being God's Instrument

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.

O, Divine Master, grant that I may not so
Much seek to be consoled, as to console;
To be understood, as to understand;
To be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

St. Francis of Assisi

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