Well...it has been awhile since my last post. This month has been completely crazy! I thought I would post the lyrics to an old hymn that I have fallen in love with. We sang it at Broad River Community Church a few weeks ago and then I listened to the covered version by David Crowder Band the other day. Here it is:

COME THOU FOUNT (OF EVERY BLESSING)

Come, Thou Fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it,
Mount of Thy redeeming love.

Sorrowing I shall be in spirit,
Till released from flesh and sin,
Yet from what I do inherit,
Here Thy praises I'll begin;
Here I raise my Ebenezer;
Here by Thy great help I’ve come;
And I hope, by Thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home.

Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold of God;
He, to rescue me from danger,
Interposed His precious blood;
How His kindness yet pursues me
Mortal tongue can never tell,
Clothed in flesh, till death shall loose me
I cannot proclaim it well.

O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I’m constrained to be!
Let Thy goodness, like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to Thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here’s my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above.

O that day when freed from sinning,
I shall see Thy lovely face;
Clothed then in blood washed linen
How I’ll sing Thy sovereign grace;
Come, my Lord, no longer tarry,
Take my ransomed soul away;
Send thine angels now to carry
Me to realms of endless day.

PS: The 4th verse is my favorite.

So...I haven't at all been growing in my faith this summer (I actually feel that, if anything, I have been falling further and further behind). Temptation, stress, and just pure laziness has taken a hold of me and I haven't been reading my Bible or working hard to overcome struggles and destroy strongholds.

On Thursday night Joseph and Sarajane and I sat out under the stars for a few hours and talked about God and our childhoods and stuff like that...it was so amazing. We decided that we want to try to make our dinners together a time of sharing what God is teaching us, that way we are holding one another accountable for spending time with God. Joe and I also decided that we needed to stop enabling one another and hopefully this will help us grow more in our faith. We talked about how the Bible is supposed to be read in a community and that we can work together to understand God's teaching. It was just an awesome night in general and was so refreshing...I guess we'll see where I go from here.

Please pray from me as I confront temptation and strongholds and try to know and love God more and more...