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Rejoice in the Lord

I know I have mentioned my Chronological Bible already several times. Last Week I finished Genesis, and this week I started Job. I have probably also mentioned before that Job was used as my discipline when I wanted to have a pity party for myself. I am remembering a lot of things about my teen years lately. If I were complaining about how God had made changes in our lives that I wasn't happy about, I would be sent to the living room with my Bible and told to read Job. Mom also let me have pity parties, but she put about a 10 minute time limit on it, seriously. At the end of the time, she would announce that the pity party was over, and she better not hear another word about it. I still set myself times to get over something and move on. That feels like it is pretty healthy.




This has been a crazy week but lots of really good, sweet, things happened. I think reading Job has magnified the good, and even though there has been lots of hectic, I don't think there has been lots of bad. I had one of my past AWANA girls contact me this week, about how to get her little girl into AWANA. That always makes my heart melt. It added even more when she said her brother's kids had started going the week before. Her brother was one of my AWANA kids too. That has really, really made my week.


One of my new year's resolutions was to be more organized, it has been my new year's resolution probably since the year I was born. I am an organized person, but a type-A organized person always thinks they could be more organized, and get more done. I bought a bullet journal and have been very faithful to use it. I am looking at January and realizing I have gotten a great deal done already this year.


Back to Job though. I read a passage this week that has stuck in my brain. It brought a song to my mind, and I have had that song stuck there for the last two days. I thought it only fitting to use the song today, so I went in search of it yesterday. And I found it. I also found the origin, which I didn't know.


First things first, the passage? Job 23:10--"But he knows the way that I take;
    when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold". The song? Rejoice in the Lord, by Ron Hamilton. I have known these two things went together since those high school years. We used to sing the song in Choir at church. What I didn't know is the story behind the song. Lots of people probably did, but I just found out the song was written by none other than Patch the Pirate.


So, I am leaving you with Ron Hamilton's testimony, he also mentions that a lot of the song came from Philippians and of course, it is chapter 4, verse 4, " Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! He also sings his song, so today, I am stopping here, stepping aside, and will let you listen to Ron's testimony and song.


Happy Saturday!





















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