Saturday, November 14, 2009

"Jesus Will Meet You There"

Jill Sullivan, who lost her daughter Hannah to brain cancer, has been writing on her blog this last week about Steven Curtis Chapman's new album, "Beauty Will Rise." He wrote the entire album about the tragic loss of his little girl in an accident. The album is actually rip your heart out sad, but praises God at the same time. I saw a quote from him where he said that the songs were psalms to God from his heart. There are so many beautiful songs that will have the tears rolling but the song "Jesus Will Meet You There" is just so powerful!! It's a really heavy song but reminds us that no matter what we face in our life....Jesus is already there.

Jesus Will Meet You There

When you think you've hit the bottom
And the bottom gives way
And you fall into a darkness
No words can explain
And you don't know how you make it out alive
Jesus will meet you there.

When the doctor says "i'm sorry
We don't know what else to do."
And you're looking at your family
Wondering how they'll make it through...
Whatever road this life takes you down
Jesus will meet you there.

He knows the way to wherever you are
He knows the way to the depths of your heart
He knows the way cuz he's already been
Where you're going
Jesus will meet you there.

When the jury says "guilty"
And the prison doors close
When the one you love says nothing
Just packs up and goes
When the sunlight comes and your world's still dark
Jesus will meet you there.

When you've failed again and all your
Second chances have been used
And the heavy weight of guilt and shame
Is crushing down on you...
And all you have is one last cry for help
Jesus will meet you there.

He knows the way to wherever you are
He knows the way to the depths of your heart
He knows the way cuz he's already been
Where you're going

When you realize the dreams you've had
For your child won't come true
When the phone rings in the middle
Of the night with tragic news...
Whatever valley you must walk through
Jesus will meet you there.

He will meet you there.

Jesus will meet you there...

Sunday, November 1, 2009

Mal's Home!!!

Mal came home on Thursday! We were so excited for her to be home finally...along with Karen and MiMi! We had an amazing service today at church organized by Jana Hardage. She did a great job pulling it all together and making sure things ran smoothly. We opened with a slideshow that I put together that basically covered the last three months in pictures from the car wreck to the waiting room while she was in PICU those first three weeks to her first bites of food then on to her first trips outside all the way through rehab at Baylor. It's amazing how much stronger and healthier she became across the three months and you can see her get stronger throughout the pictures. Jackie Tucker sang "Praise You in this Storm" to start the slideshow and then "Waiting on You Lord" played for the remainder. She did a very good job!



Also in the service, Tom Compton, our youth director, spoke about how Mal has impacted the youth and our church and though it was tough for him to do that as Mal's youth director...he did a great job! Another dear friend of ours, Brian Nivens, who coaches at Magnet Cove, spoke about how even kids at other schools have been impacted by Mal's testimony throughout this ordeal. He spoke from the heart and did a great job as well.



The youth group sang, Call on Jesus, which Mal loves and even though many are close friends of hers and were very emotional today they stepped up and did a great job and Mal really seemed to enjoy it. Jana then spoke and she sang "Jesus Bring the Rain" which is an awesome song and Mal had posted the words in her status one night. Jana is truly one of those people who can minister in music and has been such a blessing to me since she came to Caney!



We didn't leave much time for Bro Ro to preach but he did a great job of tying Mal's situation into his abbreviated sermon. He preached briefly on how we are supposed to be there to suffer when another member suffers and rejoice when another member rejoices. I know we do that at Caney..we brag when the bragging needs to be done and Caney has certainly stepped up and helped bear our burden since Mal's accident.



Here's the slideshow from this morning....