Never Once

"Scars and struggle on the way, but with joy our hearts can say 'Never once, did we ever walk alone...'"

This last session of teaching has flown by... we are so close to the end! I am so incredibly thankful for schedules and routine that make time seem to pass more quickly.

Each session at CMA, we focus on a certain topic for our devotional time throughout the session. Our session theme this fall has been "My Strength and My Song." The idea is that as we learn to remember and recognize what God has done in our lives previously, we then let that remembrance and knowledge fuel how we serve Him now. Also, remembering and seeing what He has done in our lives should bring us to a place of sharing that story of His faithfulness.

Hmm, what a timely message for Gwen to hear!

Before the start of the session, I felt like the Lord wanted me to go back and read some of my old journals (especially ones from the past 3 years). I wasn't quite sure why, but as I started reading and remembering things forgotten, it was so encouraging to see where the Lord has brought me from, what He has brought through, and where He has brought me to now. It has forced me to admit that the Lord has been incredibly faithful in my life, at a time when I can sometimes want to sit in my pity party whining about how the Lord has done nothing for me. Its been a great reminder both of the Lord's great love, and also of my own (spiritual) short term memory loss.

In our devotional times in class, teachers have also been having students share testimonies of how they've seen God working in their own lives. What a blessing that has been! There is nothing like being able to hear your students share stories of how they have seen (and currently see) the Lord at work in their lives. (We'll also end up putting together a cardboard testimony video for the performance - I can't wait to see it! If you've never seen Cardboard Testimonies, check it out on Youtube. Really good stuff!)

The Lord is basically just too good to us...and He really knows how to drive a point home. Because sometimes the best way to learn (or remind yourself of) something yourself is to teach it to someone else.