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Raccoon eyes

visioncgbc | April 14, 2008 11:41

Three weeks ago I had never met Dotty Young in person. She is my friend through Write About Jesus that I'd only communicated with via email. Well during the conference I attended recently, Dotty and I stayed at the same house with our mutual friend Wendy who lives in Nashville. As Dotty and I were in idle chit chat at Wendy's, she asked me exactly where I'm from. I told her Kings Mtn. NC. She started laughing. You see she lives in Ohio now, but is from Rutherfordton. (I don't actually know how to spell that) So, she had told me last week that she and her husband were going to be in the area. She and I tried back and forth to "hook up" but it never worked out. Well, Friday night I got a phone call "Hey there Gina Pasour! Guess where I am?" Turns out they were in Shelby! So we met at Swooger's and had a quick bite and then they hung out at our house for a while. It's so fun to make these new friendships through songwriting. You really do make friendships almost more than or at least as much as music. You know heaven will be this way. Reuniting with people and meeting people. But I think somehow in heaven that we'll know the people we've never even met.

Sunday morning service was great. I'll admit I did some much needed boohooing. The kind that there's no need to try to tissue off. The kind that after service people are going "What's wrong with Gina?" I had raccoon eyes from crying. Last night before church I was gonna wash my face and redo my make-up, but I opted for the Tammy Faye look. I loved Tammy Faye Baker, so I'm not putting her down.

Vision had 16 in Sunday School and 12 last night, and for us that is HUGE! We talked about a wonderful mission project that frees 1 enslaved sexual slave for $1000.00 Ashley Black made us aware of this, and what perfect timing at the conclusion of The Treasure Principle. So we hope to do some fund raisers to free a sexual slave.

love146.org is the site.

I started a song on the way back from lunch. This is what I've got so far.

Woke up this morning,

Felt a little better

Not where I wanna be yet

But that’s ok

Forgetting ‘bout the past

Looking forward to tomorrow

And for the first time in a while

I’m glad it’s today

I'm constantly told that I need to write more positive songs, so I'm trying. It's not in my nature to write in a place that I'm not. Maybe that is one of my weaknesses in writing. I'm so glad that with God I can be 100% me, and you can be 100% you. He's perfectly ok with it.

Psalm 35

1-3 Harass these hecklers, God, punch these bullies in the nose.
   Grab a weapon, anything at hand;
      stand up for me!
   Get ready to throw the spear, aim the javelin,
      at the people who are out to get me.
   Reassure me; let me hear you say,
      "I'll save you."

4-8 When those thugs try to knife me in the back,
      make them look foolish.
   Frustrate all those
      who are plotting my downfall.
   Make them like cinders in a high wind,
      with God's angel working the bellows.
   Make their road lightless and mud-slick,
      with God's angel on their tails.
   Out of sheer cussedness they set a trap to catch me;
      for no good reason they dug a ditch to stop me.
   Surprise them with your ambush—
      catch them in the very trap they set,
      the disaster they planned for me.

9-10 But let me run loose and free,
      celebrating God's great work,
   Every bone in my body laughing, singing, "God,
      there's no one like you.
   You put the down-and-out on their feet
      and protect the unprotected from bullies!"

11-12 Hostile accusers appear out of nowhere,
      they stand up and badger me.
   They pay me back misery for mercy,
      leaving my soul empty.

13-14 When they were sick, I dressed in black;
      instead of eating, I prayed.
   My prayers were like lead in my gut,
      like I'd lost my best friend, my brother.
   I paced, distraught as a motherless child,
      hunched and heavyhearted.

15-16 But when I was down
      they threw a party!
   All the nameless riffraff of the town came
      chanting insults about me.
   Like barbarians desecrating a shrine,
      they destroyed my reputation.

17-18 God, how long are you going
      to stand there doing nothing?
   Save me from their brutalities;
      everything I've got is being thrown to the lions.
   I will give you full credit
      when everyone gathers for worship;
   When the people turn out in force
      I will say my Hallelujahs.

19-21 Don't let these liars, my enemies,
      have a party at my expense,
   Those who hate me for no reason,
      winking and rolling their eyes.
   No good is going to come
      from that crowd;
   They spend all their time cooking up gossip
      against those who mind their own business.
   They open their mouths
      in ugly grins,
   Mocking, "Ha-ha, ha-ha, thought you'd get away with it?
      We've caught you hands down!"

22 Don't you see what they're doing, God?
      You're not going to let them
   Get by with it, are you? Not going to walk off
      without doing something, are you?

23-26 Please get up—wake up! Tend to my case.
      My God, my Lord—my life is on the line.
   Do what you think is right, God, my God,
      but don't make me pay for their good time.
   Don't let them say to themselves,
      "Ha-ha, we got what we wanted."
   Don't let them say,
      "We've chewed him up and spit him out."
   Let those who are being hilarious
      at my expense
   Be made to look ridiculous.
      Make them wear donkey's ears;
   Pin them with the donkey's tail,
      who made themselves so high and mighty!

27-28 But those who want
      the best for me,
   Let them have the last word—a glad shout!—
      and say, over and over and over,
   "God is great—everything works
      together for good for his servant."
   I'll tell the world how great and good you are,
      I'll shout Hallelujah all day, every day.

Raccoon eyes

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