So to begin here is the song I have had stuck in my head all day!

Listen to our Hearts
Micheal W. Smith

How do you explain,
How do you describe,
A love that goes from east to west,
And runs and deep as it is wide?

You know all our hopes
Lord, you know all our fears
And words cannot express the love we feel
But we long for You to hear

So listen to our hearts
Hear our spirits sing
A song of praise that flows
From those You have redeemed
We will use the words we know
To tell You what an awesome God You are
But words are not enough
To tell You of our love
So listen to our hearts

If words could fall like rain
From these lips of mine
And if I had a thousand years
I would still run out of time

So if You listen to my heart
Every beat would say,
“Thank You for the Life, thank You for the Truth, thank You for the Way.”

I've always had a love for music. In fact in case you don't know this already I am always thinking or humming along to some song. So no surprises then when I say that one of my favorite forms of worship is through song. To be exact through contemporary worship music, but I do still like hymns. Either way this song is one of those worship songs that has always touched me and I feel like it expresses my love for my Lord. My favorite line though has to be "and if I had a thousand years I would still run out of time". I want my walk with the Lord to be like this song says in that with every beat my heart is crying out to the Lord. I think it's a good reminder to us all and also a wonderful song of encouragment. Kristin and I were able to sing it with some of the french americans living in Alberville during our week there and we all agreed it was one of our favorites from the week so enjoy!

and on another note completly...
Today Verena and I led 12 teens in tearing apart a antique closet with housed about 4,000 spiders. Note I hate spiders please. Luckily for me we are working with southern guys who as soon as I made this known to them took over all spider removal for me :) special thanks to them! It took us so long and none of us could breath because there were so many of us crowded into such a small little closet...think gross spidery dark space. UGGG. Anyways then after lunch the group went into Grenoble and we stayed here. Finally I got some time to pack up some stuff for my departure. I have one full bag packed and most of my stuff at least organized for leaving this coming Tuesday! Man am I excited for some good american food!
So this evening I went to my last AWANA meeting. It was so sad seeing my kids for the last time and saying goodbye to everyone. To end the evening they gathered around me in a circle and took some time to pray for what is coming next. It made me once again remember that these kids say hello and goodbye to so many people and yet each person seems to matter so much to them! As I was about to head out the door one of my favorite TandT'ers came running up with tears running down his face. He wanted to give me a big hug and wish me tons of luck! I felt so bad and hope to stay in touch with them all. It's funny how in such a short amount of time these kids and leaders have become such a portion of my life, a little family here in France! I can't wait to see what the Lord will do in all their lives here in France!
So the countdown towards home begins and we're off to go chat with the group before the "mandatory lights out" time. Silly Georgians.