TUESDAY, July, 22nd, 2008

Well yesterday we broke a record for the most comments thanks to CARY~!! Too bad that we did not break the record by actuaklly having 50 different people doing their devotions!!! Lucy! You are exactly right!! I was so excited whenever I saw 50 comments! What a dissapointment!
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I want to say this, and I know I keep telling you all this... but, I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THE WILDS!!! We will be going in less than two weeks! I went over the list of who is going yesterday and I have about 3 people on the fence, but if they all go then we will be taking over 40 people this year!! That was my goal, so I hope we can meet it!!!

A Few Thoughts From Yesterday:
CARY: YOU DISGUST ME! How cruel~ I thought ther ewere 50 teenagers doing their devotions! :) you are funny. Dont let it happen again! :)
McCue: We miss you man! Good to see you on here!
Amy: I am glad that you are so faithful on here!!
SABLE: Hey Girl!!! Thanks for coming on here and posting a comment with us!! You are so cool! I am glad that I found you, my long lost cousin, on facebook!! :)
Kervin: This is me officially begging: PLEASE COME TO THE WILDS WITH US!!!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!! You will be glad that you did!! :)
My 2 Cents: I have quited down on this littlegame because I know who you are and I am letting everyone else have some fun with it. :)

John 16:19-24

19 Now Jesus knew that they desired to ask Him, and He said to them, “Are you inquiring among yourselves about what I said, ‘A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me’?
20 Most assuredly, I say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.
21 A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come; but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.
22 Therefore you now have sorrow; but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one will take from you.
23 “And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you.
24 Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.

This, once again, is a pretty neat passage! Can you believe the disciples are STILL trying to figure out what Jesus is talking about when He tells them that He will be leaving them... How clear can He make it?? Well, I guess He could have told them that He would be crucified on a cruel cross, but if He would have told them that, then maybe they would have tried (ignorantly) to save Him from the cross, not knowing that If Jesus did not die on the cross they would all end up in Hell, (we would too). Anyways, there is a lot of cool stuff in this passage!!
I love verses 19 and 20. Jesus explains to the Disciples that they will be sad when He is gone, but they need not worry, because their "Sorrow will turn to Joy"

Think about that: Jesus is in the business of taking what we have made sorrowful and turning it into Joy. I am so glad that Jesus takes my sorrow and turns it into Joy.

Verse 21 is so great! It reminded me of about 4 months ago when Will was born!! :) Katie was telling me (over and over) that we are not having any more kids at all... The pains of child labor made her very sorrowful!! But Jesus knew how Katie would feel after Will was born, that is why He says in this passage that "she will nolonger remember her anguish"

That is kind of a joke around the "mother infant floor" of the hospital . All of the mothers are screaming " I AM NEVER DOING THIS AGAIN" but for some reason (mentioned in this passage) as soon as the baby is born, The mother forgets about all of the pain because of the Joy she has over her newborn child.

There may be sorrowful times in our life, just as the disciples faced, but we must remember that Joy will come in the morning!! Praise the Lord for His Love and Faithfulness!