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I got to play and do worship with Alex and Daniel for church. It’s always a huge blessing, but very stretching as well. For those who didn’t know me before the first time I went to Costa Rica, Alex almost never has chords or even lyrics. And now he works until 5 on Sundays which is when church starts (and by starts I mean people are just starting to show up :]) so we just kind of jumped right in. But it just makes me rely on the Holy Spirit even more. It’s getting a little easier. If Alex plays in the key of G, I’m use to it enough that I don’t have to watch to see the chord progression, I can just follow. He told me that next Sunday he’s leading at Beach Community Church (the English speaking church) and if Josh (the worship leader there) doesn’t end up doing worship (sorry for lots of parenthesis, I am NOT a very good writer ha ha. Anyways, he’s the worship leader there) Alex wants me to play. I’m starting to get that he doesn’t realize that I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing!

 This picture is a little older, but that's Alex and Daniel

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I was reading in my devotions in Acts this morning and found something really cool : ) It’s right after Peter heals a lame man. Acts 4 says, “Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus. But seeing the man who was healed standing beside them, they had nothing to say in opposition. But when they had commanded them to leave the council, they conferred with one another, saying, “What she we do with these men? For that a notable sign has been performed through them is evident to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.”
God had preformed a miracle using Peter and John and the Council couldn’t deny it. They had seen the man standing before them! Now, it would be awesome to be used by God in a way just like that, yet each Christian can still have such an impact. Which is more miraculous, a lame man healed, or a sinful creature deserving the full wrath of God (that’s me) being declared forgiven? We are dead men walking! What is more amazing than that? The blind having sight, the crippled rising to their feet, the lepers healing have nothing on this! How great is it having been the “prodigal son” but having had my life so radically changed that when people see what Christ has done they can also say “we cannot deny it.” Soli deo Gloria!