Friday Funny

"Excuse me...I need to count on my fingers really quick."

That's what the cashier at the bank told me today when I made a business deposit. :-) What I wanted to say and didn't was..."Please don't. I just deposited three thousand dollars!"

Because I need the reminder...

I just completed finals week at USC and I need the reminder that there's way more to life than success or GPAs. So here are the lyrics from one of my favorite songs and the reason for the title of my blog. I hope it encourages you as much as it always encourages me.

BE YE GLAD
Words and Music by M.K.Blanchard

In these days of confused situations
In these nights of a restless remorse
When the heart and the soul of the nation
Lay wounded and cold as a corpse
From the grave of the innocent Adam
Comes a song bringing joy to the sad
Oh your cry has been heard and the ransom
Has been paid up in full, Be Ye Glad.

(Chorus)
Oh, Be Ye Glad, Be Ye Glad,
Every debt that you ever had
Has been paid up in full by the grace of the Lord,
Be Ye Glad, Be Ye Glad, Be Ye Glad.

From the dungeon a rumor is stirring
You have heard it again and again
But this time the cell keys are turning
And outside there are faces of friends
And though your body lay weary from wasting
And your eyes show the sorrow they've had
Oh the love that your heart is now tasting
Has opened the gate, Be Ye Glad.

(Chorus)

So be like lights on the rim of the water
Giving hope in a storm sea of night
Be a refuge amidst the slaughter
Forthese fugitives in their flight
For you are timeless and part of a puzzle
You are winsome and young as a lad
And there is no disease or no struggle
That can pull you from God, Be Ye Glad.

Has it really been 18 months?

Yes, I'm afraid so! So much has happened that I won't even try to do a full re-cap except to say I have a great fiance, a great job, new friends in SC, and I'm enjoying living at home (for another 3 months, at any rate :-p)