Housing decisions

So for the last two or three weeks the major stressor of my life has been finding housing down in South LA. God has been leading my roommates and I, but by wiggly paths. Tomorrow we will probably have to make a final decision on one house option, which we have gone back and forth on several times. I am hoping we can come to a consensus and say yes to this house, because it would be nice to have it settled. But more than that I want the four of us (Erika, Krista, Edith and I) to really come together in unity and love for one another.

So please be praying for us all in these next few days.

Bethany Joy

Painting Pictures of Egypt

I don’t want to leave here
I don’t want to stay
It feels like pinching to me either way

The places I long for the most
Are the places where I’ve been
They are calling after me like a long lost friend

It’s not about losing faith
It’s not about trust
It’s all about comfortable
When you move so much

The place I was wasn’t perfect
But I had found a way to live
It wasn’t milk or honey
But then neither is this

CHORUS:
I’ve been painting pictures of Egypt
Leaving out what it lacked
The future seems so hard
And I want to go back
But the places that used to fit me
Cannot hold the things I"ve learned
And those roads closed off to me
While my back was turned

The past is so tangible
I know it by heart
Familiar things are never easy to discard

I was dying for some freedom
But now I hesitate to go
Caught between the promise
And the things I know

BRIDGE:
If it comes too quick I may not recognize it
Is that the reason behind all this time and sand?
If it comes too quick I may not appreciate it
Is that the reason behind all this time and sand?

- Sara Groves