song...surrender

sooo, as many of you may know, i've been at berea for the past week for staff week (which was awesome!). it was an amazing week of really growing closer to God and realizing different things about myself and bonding with the other staffers and learning my job, etc. one of the things i really loved (other than everyone on staff!) was chapel time. the speaker was really good, but i really enjoyed the singing. i loved how everyone's voices sounded together and how everyone was actually thinking about the lyrics and meant what they were singing. one of the songs that i really liked and that really made me think was this song called "surrender," so i thought i'd share it with you all. just actually think about the lyrics, they're so powerful and meaningful...

surrender
by marc james

I'm givin you my heart
and all that is within
I lay it all down for the sake of you, my King
I'm givin you me dreams
I'm layin down my rights
I'm givin up my heart for the promise of new life

(Chorus)
And I surrender all to you, all to you
And I surrender all to you, Lord, all to you

I'm singin you this song
I'm waiting at the cross
And all the world holds dear, I count it all as loss
The sake of knowing you
the glory of your name
To know that lasting joy in sharing in your pain

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they're over!!

exams are over!! [for this year, at least...] now just one more day....then it's up to camp for 3 weeks on staff [please pray for that, too, i'm kinda nervous....]...yeay!! i'm gonna miss all my friends from school, but next year will be here before we know it!! anyways, thanks for the prayers!!

i put up some pictures from my sisters' soccer games on my photoblog...go check it out and let me know what y'all think!!













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new stuff...updates...

so, i just wanted to leave that post about the chapmans up for a while (if anyone was wondering why there was a posting drought...). please keep praying for them everyone. i'm sure they're still hurting and it'll take a really long time for this to fade a little. so just remember to say a prayer for them once and a while...anyways, here's a graphic i made for them...(i sorta stole the idea from ashlee's blog, great idea punt! love ya!)...














on a different note...i've updated my photoblog quite a few times with a bunch of random spring pictures and some pictures of naomi...check it out [click on the picture]...and let me know what you think!! :)













soooo, school is almost over!! yeay!! :D i am experiencing ambivalence (thank you mr. talkington...) over the end of the school year. i'm excited that it'll be over and summer will be here, but i'm also sad that it's over...see, i'm a remembering freak. maybe that's why i love journaling (thanks to jaina) and i freak out when i forget something and why i love photography. i mean, seriously, if i could video tape my while life, i would seriously jump at the opportunity!! (it would be a ton of film, but i think it would be worth it!) i also hate change (or most change....if someone wanted to change our bathroom or possibly build us another one, be my guest! i would welcome that kind of change!), so i don't want to let go of this year. i don't want to loose any of the friendships i've made this year...i don't want to give up my locker!! [i love my locker!! don't take it!!]... i don't want to forget a thing from my first year at "real" school...
anyways, so, all that to say that we're almost done with school...our official very last day is next thursday. today was our very first day of finals (*shudder*) but thankfully, we are now 1/3 through exams!! yeay!! if you all could pray for me and everyone at my school that we would remember everything and not be nervous, all that good stuff, that would be awesome!! thanks! today was literature and math, so it's nice to have those out of the way (especially literature...). monday is physics and history (i'm most nervous about history) and then tuesday is Bible and french (that should be the easiest day...i like both subjects! [i'm really going to miss my french class... :(])...sooo, if you could be praying for us as school winds down, that would be wonderful...
i think that's a brief overview of what's been going on lately...don't forget to be praying for the chapmans!!