Pearl

Hello all, I'm going to go ahead and call this my serious post for now. I'm going on choir tour the day after tomorrow (sat.) This whole year has just flown by, and I'm even sad that school is almost over. It's been a wonderful semester, but it has had some trials. And that's what I'm going to partially write upon. I heard this topic on the radio, and it really hit home with me. The dj's were talking about pearls, and how pearls are formed. They're formed when a irritation gets caught inside of an oyster. And then the oyster turns it into something beautiful. To put it more simply, when something is bothersome, God can help turn that annoyance into something lovely. For an oyster the greater the irritation, the larger the pearl gets. I learned awhile ago, something to help build your faith or character or patience, or anything else. You ask God to test you. Some people say they never see God answer their prayers, but if you ask for God to test you, you'll see him answer it very quickly. So any of you who are reading this, believe that you should ask God to test you, go for it! By having God test you it will help you strengthen your walk with Christ. Even if you fail, just go back to God, and keep trying.

I found this on another site, and it also struck a chord with me. I don't know the person who wrote it, but I think they did a wonderful job.

Calm the confusion in my head. Let me lie as still as the dead.

No more noise, no more sound. No more light, can be found.

For the world has turned away. No one cares for those who stray.

Why this worry and this sorrow? Why can’t I face the morrow?

Where is this pain from? Oh, when did it come?

Or has this pain been always here? Have I always had all this fear?

Calm my frighten soul. Take my broken make it whole!

Then a voice spoke to ease my mind. It said, "Leave it all behind...

For none of this pain shall ever hurt you. I am your God, I shall never desert you.

So though you suffer much torment and pain. All you have to do is call on My Name.

For I am there when no one else is around. I hear you when you don’t make a sound.

I made the lame able to walk. I made the mute able to talk.

I seek My children when they stray. And I shall never turn them away.

If only you would cast all your care on Me. Then child, you would finally be free.

Free, from this world and all it’s sorrow. Free! With a renewed spirit to face the morrow.

Child, won’t you let Me in? Don’t you want your new life to begin?

Let this world go, let it fade away. For it shall not even be here, on that final day.

My Love for you follows so deep. I laid My Life for you, my sheep.

Know that I am standing near. Know that you have nothing to fear.

I watched you before the world was laid. I loved you, before you were made.

I shall not make a mountain you can’t climb. I shall not tell of a treasure you can’t find.

Listen to Me, you know my words are true. Lean on Me, I can get you through."

Then I fell sobbing to the ground. And like the lost sheep, I’d finally been found.

I felt the sorrow, and I felt the pain. In a bitter sweetness, I called on His Name.

A bright light blinded my eyes. As I confessed all my sin and lies.

Then I felt His Blood cleansed my soul. I saw His Body broken, and mine made whole.

I felt my burned lifted away. I felt the birth of a new day.

Why had I been so blind to see? That only in Him could I be made free.

In the end- I truly did die. But just to myself, and to Him I fly.

I thank God for: new stages in life