I cannot tell you how excited I am for Amazing Family Race. At the end of July Highland Church is hosting this great event for families in our community. The two race days are Friday, July 31 for OT Rush and August 1 for NT Pursuit. 10 challenged Friday and 10 different challenges on Saturday. It's going to be amazing! Families will create a person out of mud, push their teammates across the Red Sea in a wheelbarrow and build the heavenly city out of toothpicks and marshmallows. All taking place at our beloved Highland Church! Trophies, prizes, food, raffles and the race, all for FREE!!!
Things are really coming together well for the event. I'm looking forward to seeing the event take place. It's going to be really neat to see families competing together!
Registration forms and more information are available at our Highland Kids website. Sign your family up!
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Heaven and Home
I keep thinking about the verses in 1 Corinthians 15 and Hosea "O, death, where is your victory? O, death, where is your sting?" What amazing poetry that is more than a poem. It's a promise. A promise I get to live in and, someday, die in. And the verse that precedes it, echoing Isaiah, "Death has been swallowed up in victory." That fills my heart with praise to God.
I read in Revelation 21:4, "He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away, " and my heart longs to be in that place. It's a heartache for a place I have never seen or touched, but that I know in the depths of my heart.
There's a song on the latest Hillsong United album entitled Soon and it is an echo of this same longing in my heart to be with Christ. "I will be with the One I love, with unveiled face I'll see Him. There my soul will be satisfied. Soon and very soon." The entire song sings out what I feel when I read those verses throughout the Bible about life on earth being temporary and the promise of the place He has prepared for me where I will worship Him forever.
I am a blessed woman, with a beautiful life here and I know I will do the work He has called me to do, working with children and worship and serving Him, but I am looking forward to the day He returns and calls me home to my real home.
I read in Revelation 21:4, "He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away, " and my heart longs to be in that place. It's a heartache for a place I have never seen or touched, but that I know in the depths of my heart.
There's a song on the latest Hillsong United album entitled Soon and it is an echo of this same longing in my heart to be with Christ. "I will be with the One I love, with unveiled face I'll see Him. There my soul will be satisfied. Soon and very soon." The entire song sings out what I feel when I read those verses throughout the Bible about life on earth being temporary and the promise of the place He has prepared for me where I will worship Him forever.
I am a blessed woman, with a beautiful life here and I know I will do the work He has called me to do, working with children and worship and serving Him, but I am looking forward to the day He returns and calls me home to my real home.
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