Sanctification Prayer by Dave and Janna McPhee

Sometimes it feels like such a long journey on this road of righteousness.
It doesn't help when I spend my time exploring the many winding paths of foolishness.
At times I wonder how I'm gonna make it when the progress seems so slow.
Seems I've arrived when it comes to testing Your patience, but in pleasing You I've got so far to go.

Be the tamer of my tongue, and the ruler of my ways,
The benefactor of my gifts, and receiver of my praise.
Be the wellspring of my love, and the mender of my mind,
The investor of my wealth, and redeemer of my time.
With all of who I am, oh Christ, be glorified.

While in this body I can't escape the conflict, the daily wars against my mind.
My spirit's willing but my flesh is weak and wicked, the most crooked path it never fails to find.
Oh wretched man that I know I am. Who will deliver me?
I thank my God through my Lord, Jesus Christ, who chose to walk the road that led to Calvary, that He might be.

The tamer of my tongue, and the ruler of my ways,
The benefactor of my gifts, and receiver of my praise.
Be the wellspring of my love, and the mender of my mind,
The investor of my wealth, and redeemer of my time.
With all of who I am, oh Christ, be glorified.

As I reflect on where I've come from and how You've brought me to this place,
My weary heart gains a whole new perspective as my trials only magnify Your grace.
So I'll continue to work out my salvation knowing You're at work in me.
And I rejoice in this revelation: that the work You have begun You will be faithful to complete.

Be the tamer of my tongue, and the ruler of my ways,
The benefactor of my gifts, and receiver of my praise.
Be the wellspring of my love, and the mender of my mind,
The investor of my wealth, and redeemer of my time.
With all of who I am, oh Christ, the very sweetness and the fragrance of my life, be glorified.


I heard this song playing on my iPhone today as I was making lunch for my family and my soul resonated with it so much that I had to post it. The couple who wrote this song were one of my prof's at Bible college and his lovely wife. I have to say that he remains to be my favourite prof of all my post-secondary schooling thus far because of the huge encouragement he was to me for the two years I knew him. Thank you Dave and Janna for being faithful servants of Jesus, and for influencing others to do the same through your example!

Prayer For A Friend by Casting Crowns

Lord, I lift my friend to You, I've done all that I know to do
I lift my friend to You
Complicated circumstances have clouded his view
Lord, I life my friend up to You

I fear that I won't have the words that he needs to hear
I pray for Your wisdom, oh God, and a heart that's sincere
Lord, I lift my friend up to You

Lord, I lift my friend to You
My best friend in the world, I know he means much more to You
I want so much to help him, but this is something he has to do
And Lord, I lift my friend up to You

'Cause there's a way that seems so right to him
But You know where that leads
He's becoming a puppet of the world, too blind to see the strings
Lord, I lift my friend up to You
My friend up to You

Lord, I lift my friend to You, I've done all that I know to do
I lift my friend to You


Sometimes I don't know how to pray for the people in my life that I care deeply about. This song reminds me that, when I am in those times, I simply have to entrust those people into the hands of the One who knows them perfectly and can make a difference in their lives.

Lord, I lift my friends up to You.

Carrot Soup

So I was in the kitchen today looking for something to eat, as I often do multiple times during the day, especially on Sundays when I am hungry and bored ;), and I found some older-looking carrots. They weren't fresh carrots because the ends looked a little bit soft and droopy, kind of like the way our skin gets when we age...Anyways, I decided to make carrot soup in order to make good use of these droopy vegetables before they expired completely.

I looked for a recipe and this is what I found:

epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/carrot-soup-with-ginger-and-lemon-4083

Now fast-forward a bit. The soup was absolutely delicious! The same consistency as butternut squash soup but with a tangier taste. I will absolutely be making it again in the future.

Backing up to before I started making the soup...and about a year before that :).

My parents wanted new kitchen knives, and so did I, so we went to Canadian Tire and picked up the Henkels Aviara set which was on sale for $299.99 regular $899.99. Seemed like a great deal so we went for it.

Now back to the present day, January 10, 2016.

I was almost finished chopping the onion for the soup, using the sharpest Henkels Aviara chef knife...you may already have guessed where this story is going...and the last part of the onion was a little tricky to slice. Let's just say my thumb got in the way.

The knife took a 1cm x 1cm x 2mm chunk of skin off my left thumb. It wouldn't stop bleeding for quite some time, despite my constant pressure with a kleenex but I was eventually able to make it stop and let it air out. Now my thumb just has a pink wound on the tip that dips in a bit.

The moral of the story is that the Henkels Aviara knife set is a really good one! The knives are really sharp! But I was advised by one of my co-workers that this story is not the best one to tell when trying to sell knives :P.