My chains are gone!

Well the past two weeks have probably been the greatest of my summer. From August 6-12 I spent at the training school for tam conservatory. I was proud to be part of the first ever worship track at tam. It was amazing. I loved worship the Lord for 4-6 hours a day. Although that was very amazing it wasn't the most amazing part of my summer. Suprisingly the part I was not looking forward to ended up being the best ever. I cried on the wasy to slmc from tam. I thought I was going to loose everything I had worked toward in the past week. Well I lost alot but not what I was expecting. We had great devotions everyday with Graeme Press. One day during the week they passed out these rubberbands to put on our wrists so that when we think sinful thoughts we could snap the rubberband. Throughout the week that rubberband became a real reminder of my sin. It came til the last day on sunday. The comissioner spoke amazingly as always. But for the first time in forever I didn't feel convicted to go to the altar. Instead I felt very convicted to pray for the person next to me. It was quite a weird conviction. I ended up praying for that person after the meeting as well as my best friend emma. I don't know what happened during those prayers. But emma and I walked out of the tabernacle and my rubberband fell off. My chain was broken! Praise GOD!

There is a song by Chris Tomlin that we sang in worship a couple times at Slmc. It's called Amazing Grace / My Chains Are Gone. Here are the lyrics to chorus. May the Lord bless you with these words as He has me.

My chains are gone, I've been set free.
My God, my savior has ransomed me.
And like a flood, His mercy reigns.
Unending love, amazing grace.

Blessings,

Kathryn