I don’t think it was of an accident that after my dad passed
that something strong inside me led me to want to know the place he spent so
much time and a place that was so deeply involved with him, a place that took
in all of him with arms wide open. It’s
sometimes in life you are dealt with hard, blissful of lessons that happen late
but better late than never that I know.
My heart is blessed to know my dad had his cup over flowing of so much
love, that in his end days he knew God knew of his love and belief in him, that
throughout his whole life he knew of God, he knew that one day he’d embrace God
fully that it was there to be seen for him all along. New Song Church has to be one of the most
amazing of places you could ever find.
It’s about people being fully embraced by love, by God, no matter what their
past brings in with them. This place
looks far past your exterior to get right in to your heart to bring out the
most unconditional love that you have that lays in you, not ever noticing
before. Each week as I enter this place,
I never ever know what to expect yet I do know it will be love and the acceptance
of love from the people that gather.
I strongly been asking myself was this of coincidence that
led me to this place, the place so many find comfort and love of God in, a
place that proved to some miracles are real, that in God nothing is impossible,
that in a group of those embracing God’s love never ever goes unnoticed to the
Lord. I think to myself it is no
coincidence at all, in it all I feel close to my dad I feel his love, I see in
the eyes of everyone stories of his life that they forever will carry with
them. This place is a place that amazes
me and my heart each and every day, not only do they allow a place for all to
visit God, they feed people of so many in the community to never leave hungry,
they love fully and fill up those cups that are low on love to over flow it
with the utmost of greatest love. It’s
in the singing as the Pastor with his band sings watching the people around
smile, it’s seeing so many of strangers become one, it’s seeing a community
changing their lives, changing the world by the other's they reach out to beyond
this church. I smile when I look around
to see so many feeling acceptances, feeling love, knowing they have a place to
learn that love is possible, that others do care, that they are never alone.
My dad’s love led me to this place, and I take that in fully
to understand why, I see the beauty in what this lesson is teaching to me each
and every day. I was never a person who
so freely could walk into a place of people I really did not know and start
embracing them, yet in this all right from the start that is what I have been
doing, it’s a place that you feel absolute peace in as soon as entering and
looking around to see so many just loving life, seeing they may not have all
they want in life but grateful to be where they are now. My life has changed tremendously for the better
because of this place New Song Church. I
have never ever seen so many out to help any way they could, even if that meant
giving you the shirt of their back. My
dad and I had so much of bad times in between us but I do know this is his love
to me, I do know he is laughing in seeing his daughter of all people enjoying
his stomping grounds so much and all the people that loved him and that he
loved so much as well.
I looked around the room last night as the music was playing
to find myself crying, crying because I wished I could of shared so much with
my dad there, crying in knowing just how blessed this place truly is and the
overwhelming of life, love, God’s love that over flows all of you while you are
in the presence of all the beautiful people.
It’s about learning that 2000 meals a month are given so freely, it’s
about in the knowing that God will work with you if only you work with him and
use the love he gave to you from the day you were created. For me it is finally in the seeing the power
of embracing God fully into your life, that faith, hope, belief and knowing he
has an extraordinary plan for you if only you open up to knowing it all. New Song Church has touched my heart, my life
so deeply that no words can ever describe to the fullest just how much it has
and continues to. I gasp and laugh in
knowing that my dad is the one that led me to this all, I always look up before
entering and say “dad this is your place so you better have my back and let me
see the love in all the people that loved you”.
This place is a little part of the world creating peace and
unconditional love; it’s creating the people that learn this pay it forward
more out into the lives of others they come across, that they know. It may just look like a building to you but
God has granted this place a place of his love that once you become part of it
you truly see how life can be. It’s the
Pastors of this place that amaze me and all the people that go far and beyond
for so many in need, if this isn’t God working through others than I will never
truly understand how it could not be.
You can truly see in every one of these people that they are grateful
for their life and for what they have, from smallest to biggest of things. This is a place where you could learn to
appreciate your life and find your things to be grateful for. God is working his love through each and
every person in this place you feel it and just know it. It is not a place that you go to than
forgotten for the rest of the week, it’s a place that fully embraces you 24/7
and helps you to the fullest of love.
Being in service to go to fullest of our potential, is that
not what most of us pray for every day at some point of time during our
days? I believe and know that I do and
you can see that come full circle once your heart enters this building. I have to be the proudest daughter for the
blessing my father has left to me to of found, to of be a part of, when I sit
in the circle outside of the church I know he’s there right next to me smiling
in knowing he led me this way. When I
enter the building I know beside me he walks unseen but felt to the deepest
core of my body. God works in mysterious
ways, that I do know of now, that sometimes when he sends you the hardest of
struggles the love of him is there that will open you up to see just what it is
he is giving a lesson to you about, that even if it is in the hardest of your
pain his love is found eventually through it, his blessings to you and the
unique life he blessed you with.
I’ve come to this place a long time ago while my dad was
alive, yet always looking to it through different eyes, feeling sorry for my
dad, yet finding out now that the only one to feel sorry for was myself for
believing my dad did not have a good life, that he was in a rough area, having
a rough life. That’s where sometimes it
is our own self that causes our hearts to close and to not truly see beyond what
is there, judging to quickly to not fully see the bigger picture. I cannot even say just how New Song Church is
truly Gods work and love working in the most beautifulness way allowing you to
see just what all the world could do if to be in service to Gods love, to give
in and let God work through you onto others.
I honestly do not know how it would be if not for my father how I’d ever
see this place and be where I am now.
These people keep the love of god and help out to others
going so strongly and giving of themselves so freely that to not see the work
of God is impossible. Classes to so many
that go on helping the community, classes given freely out of nothing but love
to help all those in need. From
Parenting, to grieving, to preaching, to singing, to feeding it’s a place that
over flows of the way God wants the world to be. Never ever has my heart felt such peace as it
does now, I now smile when I think of my father in knowing he knew just what
life was intended for him to be. When I
feel sad he’s no longer here I smile in knowing through his stomping grounds I
can always find him and his love.
New Song Church doesn’t just preach it practises what it
preaches and goes far beyond the skies.
Once you go beyond the perceptions of your ego you will definitely see
the Love of God working through this building of unconditional love. These people take the time to hear the
sorrows of so many aching of hearts to touch their life to show them there so
much more to this world than they are seeing.
There is a song that is sung each week that always amazes me of all the
people there turning into one, that each of them recognizes a piece of them in
one another as they hold hands and dance together forming a circle of love as
the song "Lean On Me" is being sung, this moment is the moment I truly see that
God’s love if allowed works through every person in this world if allowed, that
in your purpose his love will touch upon you to use it to the fullest of his
love through you.
Now through it all my dream, my purpose is coming to life,
through the love of the church I will be starting something I’ve been in search
for so long now, just as stuck as I felt now I see it all, I’ve seen it
through, my eyes opened to so much more than before, the bigger picture. Empowerment in the City a non-profit
organization will be starting, all this brought together by the lessons of my
father and embracing God’s love and trusting in faith and belief. I honestly don’t think I can say enough of
what New Song Church has brought to my heart, the amazing people that touch my
life, and the amazing people that were and are part of my father. I wish I could name each and every person but
they all know who they are and can’t thank enough that this movement in me has
begun and is continuing to bloom. I
still laugh and smile in knowing how this all started, from losing my father
yet gaining our love back, than learning through him the great place of
unconditional love New Song Church.
When you are in your own movie and accept the love of God
and understand to use that love through you onto others that is truly when you
are living your purpose, your dream, that’s when true dreams coming true
happen, when you truly find out how life should be. Have the faith and belief that something that
is in store for you is bigger than you could imagine, that with God’s love not
anything is too big to accomplish.
NOTE TO ALL: Not
anything is too big to achieve if you have faith and allow your heart to embrace
the love of God, to understand that even though you may feel so far away you
are closer than you know. Thank you New
Song Church for opening my heart and for loving my father and giving him a
place of absolute love he could call home, and in people he could call family,
and to accept the love of God to understand that his life was of importance and
he was here to bless lives and was special just for the fact that he was here.
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Yes Tonya you are so right!!! New Song is so full of Love not just any Love But UN conditional Love, This Church and Everyone in it do so much for this community & beyond. No matter where you come from what your background is what color you are what health issues you have if you were in trouble or the sweetest person that can be they welcome you with open arms and right away you feel at home. There is something so personal yet shared by by all That the Pastor's & the team & countless Volenteers bring to everyone. My Heart Just Overflows Because of this Church and what it does for so many. I can never Thank the People that led me there enough Nor do I feel I could ever give back all its given me But I will do what ever I can to do God work for me there. Hugs Tonya I am so Glad your here :)
ReplyDeleteThank u for that comment it explains everything so well n so true all the thanks u give back is by bein a part of it all n loving all tthat u do im so amazed n so grateful to be part of it all hugs back at u thank you its a true pleasure to be a part of it all thank u for commenting n takin time to read it
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