This fall my class is celebrating our 20 year reunion. Yep, that's me in the blue shirt I must've borrowed from my Grandma, after using an entire bottle of hairspray to get that helmet of hair nice & BIG. (???) This picture is actually an icon on the FISD website. Anyway, I wish I could go but it's a busy time for our family that weekend with Grace's birthday and CYT dress rehearsals, etc. Reunions are nice, but facebook satisfies that need to see everyone for me. If Betsy were going, I might think a little harder about going. But I just saw her last November...remember my secret gift?
I was the lead in the high school musicals so I suppose my classmates expect that I had had a successful career on Broadway or in Opera. At this point in my life I'm okay with that. I'm okay because I base my success on God's standards & perspective, not the world's. Just this week, these verses have been in my bible study, and I love that. God perfectly times His perfect Words to me.... I just love that.
Joshua 1:7-8 Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.
Psalm 1:2-3 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. H
e is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does prospers.
Luke 12:29-31 And do not set your heart on what you will eat or drink; do not worry about it. For the pagan world runs after all such things, and your Father knows that you need them. But seek his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.
Mark 8:34-36 Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?
