Family

This weekend my husband and I attended the annual national convention of the church conference we are a part of. Raised as a pastor's daughter within this conference I spent my summer's as a child traveling to wherever this conference was being held and grew up calling many of these people "uncle" and "aunt" as we did not live near my extended family. It has been several years since I have attended this convention but I was blown away once again by the way the people of God really can be a family. My husband and I must have had 15-20 people, many that we didn't even really know, come up and tell us they and in many cases their entire church, had heard of us and had been praying for us and our son. After one such case where a man we didn't know came up and asked "Is this the baby we've been praying for?" my husband even welled up. I have seen Prince Charming get tears in his eyes only a handful of times. How amazing to know that people you don't even know care that much about you?

We sang a song this weekend at the convention that just seemed to speak to exactly where I have been at. I've had some issues Spiritually since Lancelot's birth. It's been difficult to deal with everything going on and so I have had a hard time having much of a spiritual life....but through it all the one thing I have been reminded of is my son's name. It means "God is my salvation". And although I do not understand all we have been through or why I am reminded that my God is still here and He has been and will save us. Here are the lyrics:


I am not skilled to understand
What God has willed, what God has planned
I only know at His right hand
Stands one who is my Savior

I take Him at His word and deed
Christ died to save me; this I read
And in my heart I find a need
Of Him to be my savior

That He would leave His place on high
And come for sinful man to die
You count it strange, so once did I
Before I knew my Savior

Chorus (2x's) My Savior loves, My Savior lives
My Savior's always there for me
My God: He was, my God; He is
My God is always gonna be

Yes, living, dying, let me bring
My strength, my solace from this spring;
That He who lives to be my King
Once died to be my Savior

That He would leave His place on high
And come for sinful man to die
You count it strange, so once did I
Before I knew my Savior

Chorus (2x's) My Savior loves, My Savior lives
My Savior's always there for me
My God He was, My God He is
My God is always gonna be

My Savior loves, My Savior lives
My Savior loves, My Savior lives