life is hard.
life is good.
life is hard, and good, and wonderful, and overwhelming, and so many other things all at the same time.
I am realizing more and more that I am a broken soul, glued back together by grace of God, fragile, still healing, and constantly learning, striving toward something that I can't see but I know is there.
but I am also so afraid. and weak.
yet I'm promised strength in my weakness.
"Lord, help me find it. Help me find You."
this song has gotten me through many nights for years, actually, when I couldn't pray the words myself.
Whisper to Me- Warren Barfield
I lay down and I close my eyes
but I won't go to sleep tonight
there's too much on my mind
Holy God, You seem to be
twice as far away from me
as You have ever been before
Hold me safely in Your arms
and clear my crowded mind
whisper words of peace
in the dark, whisper to me
oh, whisper
I'm afraid but they don't know it
I feel so weak but I can't show it
so here I lay, cryin out with tears
Hold my gently in Your arms
and calm my beating heart
whisper words of hope in the dark
whisper to me
Whisper, make the day sleep
make the noise cease
give me peace
whisper to me
I need to hear You whisper,
whisper to me
Hold me gently in Your arms
and calm my beating heart
whisper words of hope
in the dark, whisper
to me, words of hope
words of peace
whisper to me
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Friday, April 03, 2009
sighs of relief
i'll tell you something.
sometimes, in my own secret places in my heart, it is very very ugly. unbecoming. and i hate it when those places come out. but there's good news. a lot of times the Lord BRINGS those places out so that Light can be shown on them and HE can make them more like Him, which in turn, makes them a little more beautiful. thank. the. Lord.
Romans 8:37 says "But in ALL these things we can overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loves us." (emphasis mine). wow. we don't just get by, we don't just say "well i guess i have to live with this" or "it's just the way it is"...no, we OVERWHELMINGLY conquer through Christ. isn't that SWEET!?
"It is precisely there, in the heat of the fire, we are to glorify Him. We do this by exercising perfect faith in His goodness and love that has permitted this trial to come upon us. Even more we are to believe that out of the fire will arise something more worthy of praise to Him than had we never experienced it. To go through some fires will take great faith, for little faith will fail. We must win the victory IN IT." -Margaret Bottome
"You are much neater healed than you would have been well." -Beth Moore
the Lord is all about glory and purpose, not meaningless or haphazard.
sometimes, in my own secret places in my heart, it is very very ugly. unbecoming. and i hate it when those places come out. but there's good news. a lot of times the Lord BRINGS those places out so that Light can be shown on them and HE can make them more like Him, which in turn, makes them a little more beautiful. thank. the. Lord.
Romans 8:37 says "But in ALL these things we can overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loves us." (emphasis mine). wow. we don't just get by, we don't just say "well i guess i have to live with this" or "it's just the way it is"...no, we OVERWHELMINGLY conquer through Christ. isn't that SWEET!?
"It is precisely there, in the heat of the fire, we are to glorify Him. We do this by exercising perfect faith in His goodness and love that has permitted this trial to come upon us. Even more we are to believe that out of the fire will arise something more worthy of praise to Him than had we never experienced it. To go through some fires will take great faith, for little faith will fail. We must win the victory IN IT." -Margaret Bottome
"You are much neater healed than you would have been well." -Beth Moore
the Lord is all about glory and purpose, not meaningless or haphazard.
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