GYC 2010 Deadlines!

GYC is filling up fast! I don't know if any of you got their email last week. They have already registered 25% more people than any past conference. Just an FYI for those of you who still need to book a room, they are running out of hotel space. They are only guaranteeing the $99/night discount price until tomorrow, Monday, Dec 6th. After that, the hotels will continue to accept reservations, but only on a space available basis.

Also, remember the travel discounts available! 5-15% discount...

They are also in need of more volunteers. volunteers@gycweb.org. From experience I can tell you it is great fun and a big blessing!!

Looking forward to seeing you all there! Pass the word along...

No Turning Back...

Love Language: Jubilee Project Short Film & Fundraiser

Please look past the externals and hear the message of this with your heart. Someday I hope to share with you what I am learning about these beautiful people who live among us. Pass it on to your friends and family... Thank you!!

 

(Please do not continue reading until after you watch the video!)

The Jubilee Project makes films for good causes. This film was produced to raise awareness and support for the American Society for Deaf Children. Here's how you can help:

1. Share the link with as many people as you can.
2. Sign up to become a sponsor of this video. Each sponsor will be asked to donate 1 penny for each view this video receives in November. So if the video is watched 1000 times this month, sponsors will each donate 10 dollars. You can sign up to become a sponsor by emailing project.jubilee@gmail.com. All proceeds will go to the American Society for Deaf Children.

The American Society for Deaf Children is a non-profit organization started in 1967 that supports and educates families of deaf and hard of hearing children and advocates for high quality programs and services.

Fear the Lord...

"If there is any man who fears the Lord, he shall be shown the path that he should choose."
Psalm 25:12, NEB

What a beautiful promise! Where should we put our efforts then? Trying to decide which path to choose? Nay! Rather our striving should be to fear the Lord. And when the path through which He leads seems impassable, do not be dismayed. Only trust Him. Claim His promise and move forward.

"When we cannot see our way
Let us trust and still obey;
He who bids us forward go
Cannot fail the way to show.
Though the sea be deep and wide,
Though a passage seem denied,
Fearless let us still proceed,
Since the Lord vouchsafes to lead."
-Anonymous

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So true.

Oh God, give me your eyes!

Isolation...

Algebra: An exercise to tax the limits of the brain.

Integers have been spinning around my head of late. I struggle to see the necessity of mastering this skill, but I’m trusting that those older than me know why I must submit to this twisting of brain cells. I’ll admit, I do enjoy it sometimes. So far one of my favorite things to do is solving formulas for a variable. It’s like a puzzle. You have to move things around and get rid of things until you have isolated the variable and its value is shown on the other side of the equals sign. Take this equation for example: 1/5(10-15x)+5=3

In order to find the value of x we have to isolate it. To do that we have to strip it of all that surrounds it and is attached to it.

The other day I heard someone refer to our relationship to God in mathematical terms - God being the constant; us being the variable. Somewhere between peaceful sound sleep and sub-consciousness my mind (as it often does lately) started thinking about math. But this time into the equation swirled God. Suddenly it hit me. I am the variable. God is the number on the other side. Throughout my life there have been things, even good things, that have inexplicably been taken away from me. Recently it seems to be intensifying. I have felt...isolated. Is this what I need in order to finally find my value in Him? Stripped of all that surrounds me, pulls me, and that I desire? Even that which is in and of itself good? Must I be isolated?


But the beautiful part of the equation is that whatever is done to the x is also done to the number on the other side. "For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are,...[And since] He Himself has suffered, being tempted, He is able to aid those who are tempted." (Heb 4:15; 2:18 NKJV) Every time something has to be given up, stripped away, purged, He knows how it feels because it was done to Him as well. And at the end I will find my value in Him alone.


Do you know what the meaning of Algebra is? No, it is not the above meaning. :) It is derived from an Arabic word al-jabr which means...restoration.


Oh God, do al-jabr in my life. Even if it means isolation!