Showing posts with label story. Show all posts
Showing posts with label story. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

I Have a Secret For You

One of life's most exciting choices...is full surrender to Christ.  


And....then letting God work His full potential in your heart.  I am exploring the gift of writing that He has given and has confirmed over and over during the past year.  I have answered the call of obedience to put pen to paper, or put fingers to keyboard and write a book.  This is HUGE to me.  I feel like David when he was facing his giant.  

I am at the writer water's edge....gathering my gumption...looking at my own reflection staring back at me.  I am mesmerized as I blindly search for some rocks of God's faithfulness that I can stick in my pocket...hoping I only need one Rock to take this giant fear down.  The biggest step is forward, the biggest fear is myself.  

I really don't know how to do this...and that's what makes it so intimidating.  I don't know how it's going to turn out, but I am willing to try.  I do know though it won't be perfect.  That is a hurdle I've had to overcome in this process of writing my story to you.  I was wanting to write a perfect story, wrapped up in nice box with a pretty pink bow on top.  I kept waiting and waiting for it to look like I thought it should, when God dropped this in my heart.


"Why would I want you to write a perfect story?  That has already been written.
No, I want you to write your story.  The story I am still perfecting in you."

My response was one of doubt and dismay.  Why would anyone want to hear a broken and my not-so-pretty tale?  
Because it's His-story perfected in me.  

You have one too.  If I have learned anything in my walk of faith, God can take your uglies and perfect His beautiful.  The journey of God wrapping His story in my life in a nice-sweet-tidy-little package with a perfect pink bow is the exciting part.   God is changing me as His redeeming love penetrates my heart.  The more I hideout in His word, the more I want to be like Him. 

It's a story that's too good not to share.

Monday, February 6, 2012

Music Monday [All This Time]


Britt Nicole's latest single was my pick for this week's Music Monday post.  There is such insight into her heart.  I love the reminder that all this time...even when we are unaware....God is, in his infinite mercy and grace, always by our side.  Not because of anything we do...because it's His character.  




I remember the moment
I remember the pain
I was only a girl
But I grew up that day
Tears were falling
I know You saw me

Hiding there in my bedroom
So alone
I was doing my best
Trying to be strong
No one to turn to
That's when I met You

All this time
From the first tear cry
To today's sunrise
And every single moment between
You were there
You were always there
It was You and I
You've been walking with me all this time

Ever since that day
it's been clear to me
That no matter what comes
You will never leave
I know You're for me
And You're restoring

Every heartache and failure
Every broken dream
You're the God who sees
The God who rescued me
This is my story
This is my story

I hear these people asking me
How do I know what I believe?
Well I'm not the same me
And I saw the proof I need
I felt Love I felt Your grace
You stole my heart that day



There are a lot of situations that would cause one to "grow up".  The day I accepted Christ was my "grow up" day.  But even before I started living for God, I know that God was with me.  God pursues as I learned in Hosea.  He will go to great lengths surround us with His love.  He wants our attention, devotion, and worship back.  And in every broken dream, every heartache, every failure...God is still by our side.  He doesn't give up on us.  

 Let His relentless love steal your heart today.