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‘One thing this school year is not is just another school year. You are not headed back to the same old school to see the same old teachers and eat in the same old cafeteria. This school year is not just “more of the same.” This school year is the beginning of something new.
It’s like when a family has a second child. That second child is never born into the same family as the first child. A first child is born into a family that has no children, but a second child is born to a family that has experience. In the same way, this school year is a new beginning for you. Everything is brand new—if you choose to see it that way.
God spoke to the prophet Isaiah and said, “See, I am doing a new thing!” Jesus did not say, “I came so all things could be…uh…pretty much the same as they always have been.” Jesus said, “I came so that all things could be NEW. …”
This is a chance. This is a new beginning. Right now you can choose to look at this new school year with all the potential and hope that God sees in you.’
Source: Book of Uncommon Prayer Vol. 2 by Stephen Case
Noodles & New Years
God is our refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way
and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,
though its waters roar and foam
and the mountains quake with their surging.
Selah
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
the holy place where the Most High dwells.
God is within her, she will not fall;
God will help her at break of day.
Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall;
he lifts his voice, the earth melts.
The LORD Almighty is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress.
Selah
Come and see the works of the LORD,
the desolations he has brought on the earth.
He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth;
he breaks the bow and shatters the spear,
he burns the shields with fire.
“Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.”
The LORD Almighty is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress.
Selah
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I (Richie) felt that God wanted to speak to us through this Psalm as we pondered the end of 2009 and walked excitedly into the year of 2010. So here’s some idea of what I shared tonight :)
