countdown: tomorrow!!!!!!

Tomorrow is graduation day. I never thought I'd see it come, but now it is here, Praise the Lord. Praises for bringing me into His family three years ago. Praises for the strength He has given me during the past two and a half years, to finish school. Praises for the providence, deliverance, hope, and love that have been showered upon me. Praises!

Thanks to Drea for that compliment about Miami's starring role in my profile pic. Drea, you have a three year old son who is very cute, as well as a husband who is also pretty good looking. :) Since I lack a husband, I stick with my small, four-footed friends as a source of cuteness!

Thanks to Michael Swartz for the early congrats. Michael, I am so thrilled that tomorrow is almost here, and so stunned that it is actually here. Wow.

Four and a half years have passed, and I can't believe that I will be crossing a stage tomorrow to accept my diploma. Ok... it won't actually be my diploma. At my university they roll up copies of the school song and tie them with a ribbon... then your diploma gets mailed to you a few days later. Which is good, I suppose, since I have NO IDEA what the school song is, but all the students and alumni will be asked to sing the song at the end of the ceremony.

WOW!!!

Sing your praise to the Lord
Come on everybody
Stand up and sing one more hallelujah
Sing your praise to the Lord
I could never tell you just how much
Good that it's gonna do you
Just to sing

Anew
The song your heart learned to sing
When He first gave His life to you
Well life goes on and so must the song
You gotta sing again the song born in your soul when
You first gave your heart to Him
Sing His praises once more

Sing your praise to the Lord
Come on everybody
Stand up and sing one more hallelujah
Sing your praise to the Lord
I could never tell you just how much
Good that it's gonna do you
Just to sing

Aloud the song that someone is dying
To hear down in the madding crowd
That you once were before you heard the song
You gotta let them know the truth
Is a light to shine upon the way that maybe they could go
And sing His praises once more

Sing your praise to the Lord
Come on everybody
Stand up and sing one more hallelujah
Sing your praise to the Lord
I could never tell you just how much
Good that it's gonna do you

Just to sing
Your praises to the Lord
And everybody sing
Your praises to the Lord

From the rising of the sun
To the place where it sets
The name of the Lord is to be praised
The Lord is exalted over all the nations
His glory above the heavens
Who is like the Lord our God
The One who sits enthroned on high
He who stoops to look down upon
Down upon this earth and its sky

And that is why you gotta sing
Sing your praise to the Lord
Come on everybody
Stand up and sing one more hallelujah
Sing your praise to the Lord
I could never tell you just how much
Good that it's gonna do you

Just to let the name of the Lord
Be praised both for now and ever more
Praise him oh ye servants

Praise the name of the Lord
Come on everybody
Stand up and sing one more hallelujah
Sing your praise to the Lord
I could never tell you just how much
Good that it's gonna do you

Just to sing
Your praises of the Lord
And everybody sing
Your praises of the Lord