Take These Hands

Take these hands

Teach them what to carry

Take these hands

Don't make a fist

Take this mouth

So quick to criticize

Take this mouth

Give it a kiss

This past week was Spiritual Emphasis Week (SEW) at school. It's a week of intentional focus on Jesus and how he loves us. We have chapel everyday, during which we worship God through music, teaching, and praying. Typically, students are deeply affected and lives are changed.

This semester was no different.

From among the staff, several teachers were able to give their testimonies and share what God had laid on their hearts. Caleb was blessed to be one of those teachers when he spoke on Thursday during High School Chapel. Now, it's rare that he goes up with a planned talk and speaks in front of other humans - so rare, in fact, that he can't remember the last time it happened - so there were definitely some nerves.

However, it became just another one of those experiences that our Father has been laying in our laps day after day, week after week. God was able to say, yet again, "Depend on me. See what happens."

The Scriptures promise "peace that transcends all understanding" (Philippians 4). We have been constantly blessed by such a peace (money issues, visa issues, responsibilities, pregnancy, etc. etc.) and as Caleb began to share his stories, all the nerves disappeared on cue. God is good!

Please be praying for our students here at school, that they will have opportunities this weekend to sit still before God and open their hearts. Pray that the words Caleb was given to share and the words of all the other wonderful teachers who spoke would weigh on the hearts of the students whom God wants to touch. Several students have already reached out to those of us among the staff, asking for prayer and encouragement.

Please join us in prayer for those kids!

Our God is so good. He is a God of grace and mercy. He knows just how to open our hands and how to use them for his glory.

Peace,

Caleb & Britney (& Baby!)