Part-time Blogger February 27, 2008

 Ok guys….I’m back to blogging…well at least, part-time.  I am extremely overwhelmed with the load at school combined with work and other priorities but God is getting me through it.  I have had blessing upon blessing since I chose to transfer schools and found out today that I received another grant for almost $1700 which gave me a credit for almost $500 and I still have another scholarship that I might be eligible for.  God is AMAZING.  I would have never thought that I could have transferred to a private school and receive almost all my tuition and fees in scholarships and grants.  Although it’s overwhelming, God is giving me the perserverance to finish this race called COLLEGE….yes, it feels like I’ve been running 30 miles and still have 100 to go…but praise God I haven’t passed out in these first 30. 

I know this is a short post, but it’s better than nothing, right?! 

 I’ve posted this song by Sara Groves.  It’s lyrics are absolutely what I feel right now.  I hope it touches you as much as it has me.

 When the Saints

Lord I have a heavy burden of all I’ve seen and know
It’s more than I can handle
But your word is burning like a fire shut up in my bones
and I cannot let it go

And when I’m weary and overwrought
with so many battles left unfought

I think of Paul and Silas in the prison yard
I hear their song of freedom rising to the stars
And when the Saints go marching in
I want to be one of them

Lord it’s all that I can’t carry and cannot leave behind
but your word has compelled me
when I think of all who’ve gone before me and lived the faithful life

And when I’m weary and overwrought
with so many battles left unfought

I think of Paul and Silas in the prison yard
I hear their song of freedom rising to the stars

I see the shepherd Moses in the Pharohs court
I hear his call of freedom for the people of the Lord

And when the Saints go marching in
I want to be one of them
And when the Saints go marching in
I want to be one of them

I see the long quiet walk along the Underground Railroad
I see the slave awakening to the value of her soul

I see the young missionary and the end of the spear
I see his family returning with no trace of fear

I see the long hard shadows of Calcutta nights
I see the sisters standing by the lepers side

I see the young girl huddled on the brothel floor
I see the man with a passion come and kicking down the door

I see the man of sorrows and his long troubled road
I see the world on his shoulders and my easy load
-Sara Groves (from the Album: Tell Me What You Know)