Sunday morning's church service was AMAZING. Very God-filled.
We had a visiting pastor who told a story about how when she was 8, she hiked Yosemite Nat'l Park with her family and coming back down the switchbacks, she was getting bored starring at her sister's shoes. When she looked up, she saw the magnificent sky & trees and Half Dome on the other side with the river cutting the valley - and immediately started singing How Great Thou Art (her parents were both pastors, so she grew up knowing these songs). Her re-telling of this was beautiful.
During our sharing of joys & concerns last week, I asked for continued prayers as B and I are continuing to go through a painful time trying to build our family. After Saturday's day date with B and my newfound state of peace through blogging and support you all have given to me, I wanted to share my joyfulness and thank everyone for their prayers. It's also been such a relief to lift this up to our congregation and be 'out' with it so that this pain isn't just mine but others can help me through this.
A man also shared how he's in town visiting from Brazil and just happened to find us. He had literally just come from the airport!
For our closing hymn, our choir decided to switch up their line-up so that we could sing How Great Thou Art as our closing hymn. I LOVE this song and felt God's presence. The Brazilian man was into it, the visiting pastor was emotional, God was just everywhere. It was beautiful!
And ended the day by cooking taco meat & cornbread to serve & eat our Taco Fiesta at a nearby women's shelter. Very God-filled indeed!
Did you feel God's presence this weekend? Did you feel humanity's kindnesses on you?
7 years ago
So glad you had such a great weekend and church service. It was fun to read your post, as I just posted about my Sunday church service too. I'm so thankful for wonderful churches!
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