Here are a few pictures from family camp. We have lots of them so to start here are some from the water front!
David and Josiah all geared up and ready to go! :)
Row, row, row your boat...
Zack and Megan Roach goin' for a ride.
Mom even got in on the fun! :)
Noah, Josiah and Ben building leg muscles in the paddle boats!
Zach and Mr. Roach coming in. :)
There are quite a few pictures to share from Family Camp last week but I'm going to take a brief post to share a hymn that was sung at camp. It's sad that so many truly great hymns seem to get lost and this hymn - written by Scottish minister, Horatius Bonar - is probably one of those. There is such truth and comfort packed into these five stanzas.
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Not what my hands have done can save my guilty soul;
Not what my toiling flesh has borne can make my spirit whole.
Not what I feel or do can give me peace with God;
Not all my prayers and sighs and tears can bear my awful load.
Your voice alone, O Lord, can speak to me of grace;
Your power alone, O Son of God, can all my sin erase.
No other work but Yours, no other blood will do;
No strength but that which is divine can bear me safely through.
Thy work alone, O Christ, can ease this weight of sin;
Thy blood alone, O Lamb of God, can give me peace within.
Thy love to me, O God, not mine, O Lord, to Thee,
Can rid me of this dark unrest, And set my spirit free.
I bless the Christ of God; I rest on love divine;
And with unfaltering lip and heart I call this Savior mine.
His cross dispels each doubt; I bury in His tomb
Each thought of unbelief and fear, each lingering shade of gloom.
I praise the God of grace; I trust His truth and might;
He calls me His, I call Him mine, My God, my joy and light.
’Tis He Who saveth me, and freely pardon gives;
I love because He loveth me, I live because He lives.
