The Road Home

Yesterday we had a four hour choir practice and we were working on one of our songs called The Road Home by Stephen Paulus. The song is a beautiful song, it's just very tedious, so most of us don't really care for it. However, our director made us throw out ideas about what the song meant to us (because he was trying to get us to put more emotion into it), and someone said how they thought it was about God calling us "home" and to follow Him. So Mr. Glass got us to hold hands and sing through the song with our eyes closed. I honestly can say that that was the first time I have ever felt a song so intently and actually understood the true meaning behind it.

The lyrics read as follows:

The Road Home

Tell me, where is the road
I can call my own,
That I left, that I lost
So long ago?
All these years I have wandered,
Oh when will I know
There’s a way, there’s a road
That will lead me home?

After wind, after rain,
When the dark is done,
As I wake from a dream
In the gold of day,
Through the air there’s a calling
From far away,
There’s a voice I can hear
That will lead me home.

Rise up, follow me,
Come away, is the call,
With the love in your heart
As the only song;
There is no such beauty
As where you belong;
Rise up, follow me,
I will lead you home.


I honestly wanted to cry after we were finished. I felt God speaking to me through these words and it was just the coolest thing.
The most intense part was I could feel Him telling me that to find my "road" was to follow Him and let Him lead me. I needed to simply rise up and follow Him.
My favorite part of the song is when we sing "There is no such beauty as where you belong". I think that simple sentence sums it all up. Once we find our place that God has chosen for us to be, there is nothing more beautiful, because His plan is the Ultimate Plan, and it's what creates the beauty and wonderfulness in our lives.
I cannot wait to find where God wants me to be, like I've stated in previous posts, because I know it will be so special and it will just end up being the most beautiful thing- even if it costs me lots of tears and heartache to get there.

God is just so awesome! (Especially how He works and shows us things, even through choir music!)

Blessed!

I am feeling super blessed today. God has really been with me these past few weeks.

First of all, he has proved to me over and over that He will provide and that I should never be worried. Also, He keeps reminding me that He has a plan- and His plan is perfect and way better than any plan I could ever come up with.

With that said, I keep thinking about this long, frustrating college process and keep trying to make all these plans. Then God keeps putting me in my place by making  me take a step back and say, "Hey, God's got something way better for me, and when he shuts doors, I need to listen."

I kept thinking that Belmont University was going to be the exact place I was meant to be and I was so lucky to have figured it out by my sophomore year. However, God clearly had other plans...pretty much every door was shut at Belmont, and now Mississippi College has come into the picture.

We went to a reception tonight and I was extremely impressed with everything about the college. Especially the fact that every faculty member and student there had something to say about how God has worked in their life, even at MC. It's just so exciting to know that there is a college out there who loves the Lord as much as I do, and is still willing to teach that in their school.

I don't want to say that I'm going to MC yet because I don't want to get committed to something again and get my hopes up, but I definitely feel like God is opening up a door to another private, Christian college which is what I have been looking for all along.

I'm so excited to see where God takes me with all this, especially with helping me figure out what I even want to study. But I know that wherever it is, or whatever I'm doing, it's going to be fantastic!!!

Mission Letter

For quite a while now, I’d say maybe almost a year, I have felt called to go on some sort of mission trip but haven’t been able to get involved with one for different reasons. At the beginning of this school year, Brad Walker, our youth pastor at church led us through a Bible study on a book called Radical by David Platt. The book is all about stepping out and being “radical” in our faith. Most of the book taught us about how as Christians we ARE called to go out and spread the Gospel, not just sit back and let whoever else do it. EVERYONE is called, and that really hit home with me since it was already something I had in my heart. A little while later, Brad brought in his wife’s sister, Bethany, who is a missionary with her husband and family in Brazil. It was really, really, really awesome to actually get to hear firsthand what a missionary does and how things work in other countries. I felt extremely inspired. So, I sent Brad a message on Facebook about how I wanted to commit to a trip and so on, and then something else happened that kind of showed God’s excitement, I guess you could say. My mom bought some cd a few months before all this, and the day after I made the decision, she found this insert in the cd case about how to get a free book about missions. I just thought it was super cool because it seemed like God was helping to confirm His will.
                So now I am writing to tell you about my decision to go to Vancouver, Canada on July 7-12 to follow up on the decision I made back in August.
                Before Brad came, Trinity students had a youth pastor named Jeff Philips. He and his wife, Sara, pretty much built our ministry from the ground up and invested in our lives in ways I can’t even begin to describe. However, after many years with us, Jeff and Sara felt called to go to Vancouver to start a church with some other friends and minister to the very many lost people there. There are approximately 80,000 people in the Downtown Corridor of Vancouver, yet only about 2-3% have been reached by the Gospel. (Some random facts, the population is multi-ethnic with a high population of Asian culture. There are also 150 different languages represented in Vancouver alone.) Knowing all that, you can see how big a challenge it’s going to be for Jeff and Sara and their friends to minister to these people and share how great God is with them. That’s exactly why our church has put this trip together. We are going to help them out by assisting the church’s start by helping set up for worship, promotion, and ministering to the church planters. Also, we will be starting conversations with people in the city and at the University of B.C. It all sounds really intimidating to me, but I am so excited about the trip. I know that by doing this I will not only be stepping out of my comfort zone, but I will be helping to further God’s Kingdom, and that is so exciting to me!
                I hope that you will pray for me and all the other team members that go with us, especially for our safety but also that we will not shy away from what God has called us to do. Please also pray that I will be willing and unafraid to take risks and step out of my comfort zone when the opportunity arises. I am scared that I will be too afraid to talk to people about my faith, so please pray for that as well.

             Obviously, I’m also going to be needing help raising the funds to go. Very roughly, the trip is going to be somewhere around $1,250.00 plus expenses for transportation in the city. (It includes: hotel, airline ticket, meals, and passport.) If there is any way you could help out monetarily, any amount at all,   it would be greatly appreciated because this is a huge opportunity to go out and minister.

               

So, if you would like to donate, email me at angelface8447@yahoo.com, and I will you send you the details!

Thank you!

Love,

Meghan              



 

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Brand New Blogger

Hello everyone!

Welcome to  my new blog!

I've never had a blog before, so please bear with me as I figure all this out. :)

I made this blog so that I have a quick source to keep people posted on how God has been working in my life. Most specifically, I created it as a way to keep people posted on my mission trip to Vancouver that I will be going on in July. By having a blog, I can just post notes here instead of writing to everyone every time something happens.

So thank you for checking out my blog, and I will get it up and running very soon!

Love,

Meghan