Nothing to Fier

God’s Legacy Unfolding

Hey everyone!

I will be posting an official update with more concrete details, but I thought I would give a short blurb to clarify and to bring clarity to my recent tweets and rumors!

The 2012-2013 academic school year will prove to be an exciting and difficult challenge (as it is my senior year), and I will still be attending Biola University (although some rumors have stated otherwise!) 

I will also still be living in the area and will hopefully have an increased involvement at Biola after the two semesters have seen me distance myself as I have been following through with other opportunities God has given me.

That said, to make a few quick announcements:

•  I will most likely resign from my current coaching situations as I start to move back towards being involved at BU.
• I hope to be leading a community group through Mars Hill Church in the La Mirada area by the end of Summer 2012 - if that’s what God has in store. Still a lot of questions to wrap up on this though!
• I will not be graduating early.

I want to thank everyone has been involved in my life the past 12 months, and I can assure you that God’s will and ordained plan is profound and lovely. I’m excited to see how things will work out and unfold, but that’s about all the details I can give you for now.

I’ve been challenged by the Holy Spirit to rethink what kind of legacy I am leaving on both my community (perhaps the most overused Christian noun!) and as a student at Biola University. 

Cheers to 2012…LEGGO!

My God My Father

This is a song We sing at my church. We sing an adapted version but here is the original hymn.

1. My God, my Father, while I stray
Far from my home on life’s rough way
Oh, teach me from my heart to say,
“Thy will be done.”

2. Though dark my path and sad my lot,
Let me be still and murmur not
Or breathe the prayer divinely taught,
“Thy will be done.”

3. What though in lonely grief I sigh
For friends beloved, no longer nigh,
Submissive still would I reply—
“Thy will be done.”

4. Though Thou hast called me to resign
What most I prized, it ne’er was mine;
I have but yielded what was Thine—
“Thy will be done.”

5. Should grief or sickness waste away
My life in premature decay,
My Father, still I strive to say,
“Thy will be done.”

6. Let but my fainting heart be blest
With Thy sweet Spirit for its Guest;
My God, to Thee I leave the rest—
“Thy will be done.”

7. Renew my will from day to day;
Blend it with Thine and take away
All that now makes it hard to say,
“Thy will be done.”

8. Then, when on earth I breathe no more,
The prayer, oft mixed with tears before,
I’ll sing upon a happier shore,
“Thy will be done.”

Hymn #418 
The Lutheran Hymnal
Text: Matt. 26:42
Author: Charlotte Elliott, 1834-1839 
Composer: Johann D. Meyer, 1692
Tune: “Es ist kein Tag”