Bone

Jonah 2

From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the LORD his God. He said:

“In my distress I called to the LORD,
and he answered me.
From deep in the realm of the dead I called for help,
and you listened to my cry.
You hurled me into the depths,
into the very heart of the seas,
and the currents swirled about me;
all your waves and breakers
swept over me.
I said, ‘I have been banished
from your sight;
yet I will look again
toward your holy temple.’
The engulfing waters threatened me,
the deep surrounded me;
seaweed was wrapped around my head.
To the roots of the mountains I sank down;
the earth beneath barred me in forever.
But you, LORD my God,
brought my life up from the pit.

“When my life was ebbing away,
I remembered you, LORD,
and my prayer rose to you,
to your holy temple.

“Those who cling to worthless idols
turn away from God’s love for them.
But I, with shouts of grateful praise,
will sacrifice to you.
What I have vowed I will make good.
I will say, ‘Salvation comes from the LORD.’”

And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

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Did double my Bible readings this morning for today and tomorrow cause I won't be home most of these days! I think I really felt the Lord speak to me through the various passages and address so many of my varied worries about life and the future and choices I'm making/will make and I can't really express the joy of knowing God and the joy of being able and even responsible for spreading this knowledge to people who need it.

Anyway I'm really excited about prom tonight and while I earlier had mixed feelings about the amount of time and money spent on this one night, I've realized that it is the last ever prom I will have and, in some sense, it marks the end of this whole IB journey. So I'm really determined to enjoy it and the company of people I've grown to know and really connect with these two years. There's a kind of bittersweetness to all of this, as is to be expected. I have to keep reminding myself that this isn't really the end of my youth or childhood (ha ha) and there are places to be gone, good works to be done, life to be experienced.

I just thank God for the past two years and all that has happened in them. It's really been incredible.