New layout and header!!
Yay!
Forever I've wanted to personalize this blog and I didn't know how or WHAT!
But, I'm so proud of myself today, I made my own headers!!
I like :)
Monday, November 23, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Love
Jesus, I want to Love like a child with the depth of an ancient.
I want to live. I need your Love so I won't fear, so I can love the hard-hearted, fully myself... with You.
I don't want to DO for the sake of DOING. I want to DO for the sake of LOVING.
I long for Love.
I long to be known.
The only time the world really stopped was when I looked into your eyes.
I saw you in the middle of the dark.
Your eyes burn with light. Your Love is so bright, there's no mistaking it, I think we're the ones who confuse it.
You burn through the night, your mercy always breaks through, tears dry in your sunlight. Your coming on the wings of the dawn and last night I saw you... every word disintegrated.
You're so big I can't grasp it. Yet, You're so near I can't comprehend it.
To never lose the wonder, to use this pain for victory.
To appropriate the power of Your cross for all it's worth.
You're precious.
I want to live. I need your Love so I won't fear, so I can love the hard-hearted, fully myself... with You.
I don't want to DO for the sake of DOING. I want to DO for the sake of LOVING.
I long for Love.
I long to be known.
The only time the world really stopped was when I looked into your eyes.
I saw you in the middle of the dark.
Your eyes burn with light. Your Love is so bright, there's no mistaking it, I think we're the ones who confuse it.
You burn through the night, your mercy always breaks through, tears dry in your sunlight. Your coming on the wings of the dawn and last night I saw you... every word disintegrated.
You're so big I can't grasp it. Yet, You're so near I can't comprehend it.
To never lose the wonder, to use this pain for victory.
To appropriate the power of Your cross for all it's worth.
You're precious.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
in the moment
So, this is me.
I HATE not knowing and that's just the place I almost always seem to be of lately.
God, what are you doing?
Is it just me, am I that deaf and dumb?
I just wanna be free.
I HATE not knowing and that's just the place I almost always seem to be of lately.
God, what are you doing?
Is it just me, am I that deaf and dumb?
I just wanna be free.
We're are........
I recently heard it said: "Jesus wasn't raised up on the cross to give us a career." and it keeps going over and over in my head....
Don't we have better things to do than to argue?
I want so much to stand up and scream, but so many times the hammer seems to slip and fall on the wrong side... so, I sit and say nothing... I hate being misunderstood, so alone.
We're not meant to speak, we're supposed to live.
Jesus isin't a brand or a nametag, His cross is not cool or fashionable. It's radical, it's for every age every time every people group.
We're so twisted, so confused...
and if we really lived for Love, it wouldn't look like this.
Cause we focus on all the wrong things. We're so blind! Father, can you still lead us?!
Don't we have anything better to do than talk idle words out? Oh! they're spewing and falling and tripping our brothers.
I thought soldiers never give up.
It's so hard to be the only one. It's so much easier to swim with the flow.
Oh, to those who'll remain unnamed,
I've heard you say it again and again and that vision is so nice, but that's not what I'm seeing, friend.
Your words paint a beautiful picture, but I don't see those same colors on display.
We've become a place of false advertising, we're not meant to play these games.
I imagine God, does your heart not weep to see your church so crippled, so helpless, when we've got all the Power we need... You must see some good in us yet.
You're the one who loves Justice.
You're the One who reigns in Mercy.
You hate sin BUT love unconditionally.
And, I wanna be like you and I want things to change. And even tho it seems they never will, I never want to stop believing.
I don't wanna hate your bride, Oh God, make us pure for you again.
Don't we have better things to do than to argue?
I want so much to stand up and scream, but so many times the hammer seems to slip and fall on the wrong side... so, I sit and say nothing... I hate being misunderstood, so alone.
We're not meant to speak, we're supposed to live.
Jesus isin't a brand or a nametag, His cross is not cool or fashionable. It's radical, it's for every age every time every people group.
We're so twisted, so confused...
and if we really lived for Love, it wouldn't look like this.
Cause we focus on all the wrong things. We're so blind! Father, can you still lead us?!
Don't we have anything better to do than talk idle words out? Oh! they're spewing and falling and tripping our brothers.
I thought soldiers never give up.
It's so hard to be the only one. It's so much easier to swim with the flow.
Oh, to those who'll remain unnamed,
I've heard you say it again and again and that vision is so nice, but that's not what I'm seeing, friend.
Your words paint a beautiful picture, but I don't see those same colors on display.
We've become a place of false advertising, we're not meant to play these games.
I imagine God, does your heart not weep to see your church so crippled, so helpless, when we've got all the Power we need... You must see some good in us yet.
You're the one who loves Justice.
You're the One who reigns in Mercy.
You hate sin BUT love unconditionally.
And, I wanna be like you and I want things to change. And even tho it seems they never will, I never want to stop believing.
I don't wanna hate your bride, Oh God, make us pure for you again.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Waiting... in peace, not turmoil... in TRUST
I'm waiting
I'm waiting on You, Lord
And I am hopeful
I'm waiting on You, Lord
Though it is painful
But patiently, I will wait
I will move ahead,
bold and confident
Taking every step in obedience
While I'm waiting...
I will serve You
While I'm waiting...
I will worship.
While I'm waiting
I will not faint, I'll be running the race.
Even while I wait
I'm waiting
I'm waiting on You, Lord
And I am peaceful
I'm waiting on You, Lord
Though it's not easy
But faithfully, I will wait
Yes, I will wait
I will serve You while I'm waiting!
I will worship while I'm waiting!
I will serve You while I'm waiting,
I will worship while I'm waiting,
I will serve you while I'm waiting...I will worship while I'm waiting on You, Lord - While I'm waiting, John Waller
I'm waiting on You, Lord
And I am hopeful
I'm waiting on You, Lord
Though it is painful
But patiently, I will wait
I will move ahead,
bold and confident
Taking every step in obedience
While I'm waiting...
I will serve You
While I'm waiting...
I will worship.
While I'm waiting
I will not faint, I'll be running the race.
Even while I wait
I'm waiting
I'm waiting on You, Lord
And I am peaceful
I'm waiting on You, Lord
Though it's not easy
But faithfully, I will wait
Yes, I will wait
I will serve You while I'm waiting!
I will worship while I'm waiting!
I will serve You while I'm waiting,
I will worship while I'm waiting,
I will serve you while I'm waiting...I will worship while I'm waiting on You, Lord - While I'm waiting, John Waller
Monday, August 24, 2009
comfort
Come thou fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing thy grace
Streams of mercy never ceasing, call for songs of loudest praise
Teach me some melodious sonnet, sung by flaming tongues above
Praise the mount I'm fixed upon in
Mount of thy redeeming Love.
I was lost in utter darkness, til you came and rescued me
I was bound by all my sin when your love came and set me free
Now my soul can sing a new song, now my heart has found a home
Now your grace is always with me
And I'll never be alone!
Come thou Fount
Come thou King
Come thou precious prince of Peace
Here your bride - to You we sing
Come thou fount of our blessing.
Streams of mercy never ceasing, call for songs of loudest praise
Teach me some melodious sonnet, sung by flaming tongues above
Praise the mount I'm fixed upon in
Mount of thy redeeming Love.
I was lost in utter darkness, til you came and rescued me
I was bound by all my sin when your love came and set me free
Now my soul can sing a new song, now my heart has found a home
Now your grace is always with me
And I'll never be alone!
Come thou Fount
Come thou King
Come thou precious prince of Peace
Here your bride - to You we sing
Come thou fount of our blessing.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
today
Today I'm not quite sure what's happening.
I don't have all the answers.
I wish I didn't need to know why.
So, I choose to come back to where I started. I will stay here in the good times and the hard times........ At the Cross.
I KNOW that my God is unchanging - I know His plans will not fail. He will never cease to amaze... This is my God and this is my declaration.
It's not all about me. I am not in charge. I have a future and I have a hope- Jesus.
Jesus, You are all I need.
This brings a smile to my face... You are always.
I love You.
I don't have all the answers.
I wish I didn't need to know why.
So, I choose to come back to where I started. I will stay here in the good times and the hard times........ At the Cross.
I KNOW that my God is unchanging - I know His plans will not fail. He will never cease to amaze... This is my God and this is my declaration.
It's not all about me. I am not in charge. I have a future and I have a hope- Jesus.
Jesus, You are all I need.
This brings a smile to my face... You are always.
I love You.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Jesus
For every broken heart, for every man who bleeds. One man gave every drop of his life. He took up OUR infirmities and carried OUR diseases. He tookOUR punishment and gave us peace. And by His stripes we... are... healed.
For every murderer.
For every lie.
For all the sins that we have created - He bacame sin.
For every cutter.
For all our shame, Jesus, You were disfigured beyond recognition.
For every prideful man, He made Himself nothing, to free you from the grasp of self.
That's why the STORY is Jesus, the MESSAGE is Mercy, the CENTERPIECE is Savior, the POWER is Forever, and the FRUIT is Freedom.
For every murderer.
For every lie.
For all the sins that we have created - He bacame sin.
For every cutter.
For all our shame, Jesus, You were disfigured beyond recognition.
For every prideful man, He made Himself nothing, to free you from the grasp of self.
That's why the STORY is Jesus, the MESSAGE is Mercy, the CENTERPIECE is Savior, the POWER is Forever, and the FRUIT is Freedom.
"For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified." 1 cor 2:2
When you understand what He did for you, how can you settle for anything less that what He died to give you?
"The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom."
Mark 15:38
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
"Fruitcake and Ice cream" -Louie Giglio
"Fruitcake and Ice Cream" - a message by Louie Giglio
http://www.northpoint.org/messages Home Free-Even Me
OR
http://www.itunes.com/podcast?id=262317288
2 Cor 5:13
"For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you. "
THE IDEA: when we fully get grace - grace gets us too... and when we get it it "will freak you out". When we understand the magnitude of grace (why it's called Amazing Grace) then we will just temporarily lose our minds!
We have to act "sane" in order to operate in this world - in order to communicate the message to people who haven't gotten it, so they can get it and you can both go crazy together! Ha! = )
Check it out in The Message Bible with verse 14:
"If I acted crazy, I did it for God;
if I acted overly serious, I did it for you.
Christ's love has moved me to such extremes.
His love has the first and last word in everything we do."
Verse 14 in the NIV says: "For Christ's love compels* us, because we are convinced** that one died for all, and therefore all died."
*(to Compel means 'to have a powerful and irresistible effect')
**('we ARE conviced' - aka - "we get it!")
May we never lose our passion for the sake of the Gosple, our wonder at the Cross and our joy in the love of our Creator.
http://www.northpoint.org/messages Home Free-Even Me
OR
http://www.itunes.com/podcast?id=262317288
Have you gotten grace yet?
Louie Talks about this scripture - I love it!2 Cor 5:13
"For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you. "
THE IDEA: when we fully get grace - grace gets us too... and when we get it it "will freak you out". When we understand the magnitude of grace (why it's called Amazing Grace) then we will just temporarily lose our minds!
We have to act "sane" in order to operate in this world - in order to communicate the message to people who haven't gotten it, so they can get it and you can both go crazy together! Ha! = )
Check it out in The Message Bible with verse 14:
"If I acted crazy, I did it for God;
if I acted overly serious, I did it for you.
Christ's love has moved me to such extremes.
His love has the first and last word in everything we do."
Verse 14 in the NIV says: "For Christ's love compels* us, because we are convinced** that one died for all, and therefore all died."
*(to Compel means 'to have a powerful and irresistible effect')
**('we ARE conviced' - aka - "we get it!")
May we never lose our passion for the sake of the Gosple, our wonder at the Cross and our joy in the love of our Creator.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
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