The Great Saga

Last week was Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Around this time also means the returning of Grace's Easter Passion Mime. I was so blessed to be involved in this production last year, and I was lucky to be able to watch and support my friends in it this year. The mime is such an amazing and moving project that not only tells the story of Jesus, but it lets audience members experience God's story and his vast love for us. This year the mime was all about redemption, and I probably got the strongest pull on my heart strings right from the beginning scene. It was blocked perfectly and really sent a message that slapped you in the face (and it was done to the song Start Again by Red- one of my favorites!!)

Note: I tried uploading the video, but the file was too big...so here's just a part of this scene!

Experiencing your whole entire body being taken over by the Holy Spirit to portray this story in the way God wants it to be done is SO amazing! the feeling of accomplishment at the end is great too because as a cast member, you know that you really got to someone in the audience in some way!

 Here are some pictures from the year I was in it! :)

By God's Grace We Are Saved!





It's not who you knew, and it's not what you did. It's how you live!

This is my First Blog ever!! I had been reading a few of my friends, and I really got inspired to make one of my own. So I thought that the first thing I write on should be about how I got the title of this blog. How You Live (Turn Up the Music) is a song by Point of Grace. As the end of the school year is drawing near for me, I think of how just a short year ago I was graduating from high school. I used to sing solos in church all the time, and I chose this song to be the last song I would sing before graduation, leaving for the summer, and moving 12 hours away. I've always gotten amazing support about my singing from my church family at Grace Baptist back home, and the message I was singing in this song ended up being pretty emotional. This song sends a message to turn up the music; to go for it in any situation. Because it really is how you live that matters.

Here are the rest of the lyrics!

 

Wake up to the sunlight with your windows open
Don't hold in your anger or leave things unspoken
Wear your red dress use your good dishes
Make a big mess and make lots of wishes
Have what you want, but want what you have
And don't spend you life looking back

Turn up the music Turn it up Loud
Take a few chances Let it all out
Because you won't regret it
Looking back from where you have been
Because it's not who you knew and it's not what you did
It's how you Live

So go to the ballgames and go to the ballet
And go see your folks more than just on the holidays
Kiss all your children Dance with your wife
Tell your husband you love him every night
Don't run from the truth cause you can't get away
Oh no
Just face it and you'll be ok

Turn up the music Turn it up Loud
Take a few chances Let it all out
Because you won't regret it
Looking back from where you have been
Because it's not who you knew and it's not what you did
It's how you Live

Where ever you are and wherever you've been
Now is a time to begin

So give to the needy and Pray for the grieving
Even when you don't think that you can
Cause all that you do is bound to come back to you
So think of your fellow man
And make peace with God and Make peace with yourself
Oh yeah
Cause in the end there's nobody else

Turn up the music Turn it up Loud
Take a few chances Let it all out
Because you won't regret it
Looking back from where you have been
Because it's not who you knew and it's not what you did
It's how you Live

Because it's not who you knew and it's not what you did
It's how you Live