let your light shine

"Let Your Light Shine"

by Bethany Dillon

The Calmer of the sea
Here in this room with me
So gently welcoming
The weakest things in me
You are the blood over
The door of my heart
What pain You spared me from
How could I know it all?

Oh wonderful love, You died for me
The power of Your life is in me

Father, let Your light shine down on me
Father, let Your light shine down on me
No matter what the day or night may bring
Father, let Your light shine down on me

Oh Jesus, You became what was my deepest shame
That at Your very name
My calloused heart would change
How could You, oh perfect One
Love me, when I have done nothing that's worthy of
My freedom You have won

Oh wonderful love, You died for me
The power of Your life is in me

Father, let Your light shine down on me
Father, let Your light shine down on me
No matter what the day or night may bring
Father, let Your light shine down on me

Open up the heavens
Poor down Your Spirit
Home me God
Jesus, wherever You lead
I'll sing harmony
Hold me God

Father, let Your light shine down on me
Father, let Your light shine down on me
No matter what the day or night may bring
Father, let Your light shine down on me

Matthew 5:16

In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.

the chipmunks

It's funny really, the way my sisters and I can be compared to yes...the chipmunks!

From L to R: Simon, Alvin, & Theodore

Simon: Simon is the smart, studious, intellectual one - hence the glasses.  Very thought out, well organized,  goes by the rules.  This is Carly to the tee! :)  She can seriously accomplish more in one single day than most people do in an entire month!  This girl just goes and goes.  Now, I will say this comes in handy when she plans out your vacation. You get to see and do a lot!  Thank you Carly for planning our backpacking Europe adventure!  What's also comical about Simon/Carly is their "nerdyness" is actually quite funny.  

Alvin: Well, the picture with the hands up in the air is a pretty good description of my oldest sister Ashley.  Oh boy is she a vocal one (although I can be known to be pretty loud myself). To quote Ashley verbatim: "My philosophy are secrets are stupid". This means in our family that there are absolutely no secrets. We know everything about everyone because of this girl.  If she finds out something from you, she'll go to the next family member and say "Hey, did you hear Riley did this?".  She's like a mini Boppa in some ways.  We even all know each others passwords to accounts...I just started using Ryan's for a password at work, ha!  

Theodore: Described as the short, chubby, compact, impressionable one.  Yep, that's me! Does what the older two siblings tells him.  Always found eating something!  (And if you've ever lived with me you know that's true ;)  Story about how I was/am impressionable.  Go back to when we lived in Story City.  We had some good family friends over and my sisters thought it would be fun to literally jump off our first story roof onto some couch cushions on the ground.  I see my sisters and friends jump one by one on the cushions about 12-15 feet below.  So here comes little Haley (about 5 years old) and weeeee.....only to land right in the middle of two cushions and seriously sprain my ankle.  In fact, my ankle is still separated in 2 pieces to this day, weird! 

Standing of corse in appropriate order as the picture above: Carly, Ashley & myself

And another similarity, we all sing together as well! :)