MercyMe will be collecting canned food donations for the OC Rescue Mission at Rockwell's in Villa Park from 6-9a tomorrow. I hope you can swing by on your way to work!!! Let's get so much food for OCRM that they won't have room for all of it. :-) AND you can hear MercyMe on the Morning Show--they are taking over. AND you can see them tomorrow night with David Crowder Band, Sidewalk Prophets, Franny B and more at Long Beach Arena with the Rock 'N Worship Road Show. Tix are just $10 at the door, and you can get all the info in our Station Events section.
I was running errands yesterday and realized that I had pureed carrots (thank you, Dallas!) stuck in my bangs...AFTER I got home. No one said a word! Maybe it's kind of like when you see someone with TP stuck to their shoe. You don't want them to keep walking around like that, but you are afraid they will take their embarrassment out on YOU for being the messenger. Tell you what--if you see me at the Crowder show tomorrow with peas, carrots, or sweet potato on my person, please tell me! I will give you a hug. :-)
There are so many World Vision children in our Fish Village in Zambia, Makungwa, with April birthday! Just click on the World Vision banner on our homepage, and you can scroll through and see their little faces and read their bios. All of these children are up for sponsorship because their parents aren't able to provide the basics, like food and clean water and medical care, for them. YOU can change a life!
Prayer Request: Please pray for Ralph and his family. Their baby son son died suddenly on Sunday...I can't stop crying as I type this, because it is just too awful to even imagine. I wish I knew what to say to bring comfort at a time like this, but please pray that somehow they would have peace and strength. I wanted to post these lyrics to "Held" by Natalie Grant, because I think this song really says it all.
Two months is too little.
They let him go.
They had no sudden healing.
To think that providence would
Take a child from his mother while she prays
Is appalling.
Who told us we'd be rescued?
What has changed and why should we be saved from nightmares?
We're asking why this happens
To us who have died to live?
It's unfair.
Chorus:
This is what it means to be held.
How it feels when the sacred is torn from your life
And you survive.
This is what it is to be loved.
And to know that the promise was
When everything fell we'd be held.
This hand is bitterness.
We want to taste it, let the hatred know our sorrow.
The wise hands opens slowly to lilies of the valley and tomorrow.
(Chorus)
This is what it means to be held.
How it feels when the sacred is torn from your life
And you survive.
This is what it is to be loved.
And to know that the promise was
When everything fell we'd be held.
Bridge:
If hope is born of suffering.
If this is only the beginning.
Can we not wait for one hour watching for our Savior?
(Chorus)
This is what it means to be held.
How it feels when the sacred is torn from your life
And you survive.
This is what it is to be loved.
And to know that the promise was
When everything fell we'd be held.
