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Name: Tiffany
Country: United States
State: Iowa
Metro: Des Moines
Birthday: 12/6/1981
Gender: Female
Interests: God, singing, kids...any combination of the three I'm happy as a clam. (btw, how do you know if a clam is happy)
Expertise: Childcare, I suppose.
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AIM:  FifferFahy
Member Since:
7/24/2005
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| A few weeks ago I suddenly decided that I would like to go to Faithwalkers if I could. I had previously kept telling myself it just wouldn't be possible to get the time off work or to come up with the money. Where was I going to get an extra $200? But I indicated in a survey that I was thinking about going but I needed financial assistance. Pastor Tim told me to let him know what I needed but I had no idea; I'm not very good at "projecting". We talked the other day and Tim told me because of my work in the children's and media ministries, the church would pay for me to go if I wanted to. Apparently, they're doing this for a few other people as well. The Bible says we will receive our treasures in heaven, but this is certainly more than I would think of asking for here on earth. God's blessings are so much more than I could imagine... I got the okay at work to get the time off so I'm now registered to go. And I'm possibly driving the van and taking a few passengers. I don't believe I will have to pay anything. God rocks!! | | |
| Been awhile since I posted anything over here...sorry about that. I was going to post this on my other xanga but I decided it fit better over here.
This idea of eternity has been on my mind a lot the last couple days. What with my uncle having triple bypass surgery on wednesday and the thought that with any surgery, especially heart surgery, there's always a risk and the possibility that he could have died...most of my family members aren't Christians, including my uncle. I am so thankful that he's doing just fine but it's gotten me thinking. Is God going to wait for my uncle, my step-dad, my aunt...anyone in my family to come around? I know that He's the one who has to change their hearts and it's not all on me or my dad for that matter. I don't think it's ever been on my heart so strongly; there's a certain reality that hits when someone you love is closer to death. But I suppose we're all "close" to death when it comes down to it. You don't really know when anyone's number is up. I admittedly don't think about eternity or its implications as much as I should. These are people's hearts we're talking about here. There is nothing more important. | | |
| This may be a rather lengthy post...Saturday, Justin called me about singing at church this morning and through this conversation I got a wild hair that I needed to really look at the music we were doing and take some time to learn what it all meant. So, I wanted to share some of what I found with you guys. I won't do all the songs, but perhaps 1 or 2....
(bold is the actual lyric, italics on the same line is the definition)
Filled With Your Glory
In my heart, in my heart, there's a fire burning
A passion deep within my soul powerful emotion
Not slowing down, not growing cold
An unquenchable flame impossible to suppress or destroy
That keeps burning brighter
A love that's blazing like the sun
For who You are and what You've done
And as the fire is raging on furious intensity
So your praise becomes my song
The whole earth is filled with your glory Lord great honor, praise, or distinction accorded by common consent
Angels and men adore to worship as God
Creation longs for what's in store
May you be honored and glorified gesture of respect and distinction
Exalted and lifted high raise in rank, glorify, honor or praise
Here at your feet I lay my life
From the ends of the earth to the heights of heaven
Your glory Lord is far and wide
Through history you reign on high exercise of sovereign power
From the depths of the sea deepest or lowest point
to the mountain's summit highest point
Your power Lord it knows no bounds
A higher love cannot be found
So let the universe proclaim
Your great power and Your great name remarkable or outstanding in magnitude
I love the definition for glory: to give great honor, praise or distinction accorded by common consent. It's not just one person giving God honor...it's a whole group of people who are bound by a common purpose, a common God and a common love.
Here I am to Worship
Light of the world
You stepped down into darkness
Open my eyes let me see
Beauty that made this heart adore you to worship as God
Hope of a life spent with you to look forward to with confidence or expectation
Here I am to worship reverent love and devotion accorded a deity
Here I am to bow doen
Here I am to say that You're my God
You're altogether lovely entirely, completely full of love, inspiring love, enjoyable, delightful
Altogether worthy entirely, completely having sufficient worth, deserving
Altogether wonderful to me entirely, completely admirable, or excellent
King of all days
Oh so highly exalted raise in rank; glorify, praise honor
Glorious in heaven above Characterized by great beauty and splendor; magnificent
Humbly you came to the earth you created marked by meekness or modesty in behavior, attitude or spirit; not arrogant or prideful
Alright...I think I'm done having fun with HTML....It was just really cool to go through the songs and spend some time on the word, meditating on what we were singing today. It takes some time and work, but the effort is definitely worth it. | | |
| Thank you, Justin for intoducing me to this song last week...It's so beautiful! I really don't know what else I can say about it. The lyrics are wonderful; definitely a song that speaks to my heart. "I want to burn with passion"....I'm tired of apathy. I want to love God fully and completely. I want to desire Him in my life with an unquenching thirst. I don't want to be "fine with all my singing and bringing grain", I want it to mean something.
yearn
holy design
this place in time
that i might seek and find my God
my God
Lord i want to yearn for You
i want to burn with passion
over You and only You
Lord i want to yearn
Your joy is mine
yet why am i fine
with all my singing and bringing grain
in light of Him
oh You give life and breath
in Him we live and move
that's why i sing
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| I can't breathe. Ok...I can...but it feels like I'm breathing through a straw. It's fun.
Tonight is my last night of "freedom" before I start taking classes again. I'm kind of excited. It's something new and after pretty much being in the same place for the last two years, I'm ready for new. I've been feeling rather...apathetic...lately. I'm definitely burnt out in the sound department. I feel like my mix is seriously sucking and thank God for Justin giving me a break on Sunday mornings this month! Now if I could get a break at Common Grounds, I'd be set......Anyhow...apathy. I think I'm bored. It's the same thing day in and day out and that's nobody's fault but my own. I know this. "Read your Bible, Tiffany." "Talk to Me, Tiffany. I'm waiting for you..." I know God is calling me to something larger. I don't know what it is at this point. But, as Nick once said, "God loves you just as you are, He just loves you too much to leave you that way." I want to become the woman that God wants me to be. Whoever that might be, whatever that might take, however long the road.....I can't do it alone. I know that. I need Him. I shouldn't have to depend on circumstantial things to make my life "exciting". God's only Son, Jesus Christ, died for ME....I have a purpose in life, I have goals I want to reach, I have so much, and yet I look at what I don't have, what I can't do, and then my life is crap? I am so blessed and I need to be more grateful for what I do have. This life isn't easy. No one ever claimed that. The road is long and sometimes it feels lonely. But if I have faith; believing that God will do what He promised, I will get through it with Him above me, at my side and in front of me. | | |
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