Life

You have taken me to mountaintops and dark caves- o my eyes have seen the beauty of the sunrise from points where no eye has ever reached and my eyes have been amazed at the beauty found in rocks deep in the darknesss, beauty formed where no light has ever touched.

Truly there is beauty to be found anywhere that the presence of my God touches down.

Precious Lord, take my hand and lead me through the deafening darkness, through the blazing brightness, through murky hazes and misty nights, through the sparkling, cleansing rain and through the terrifying thunderstorms.

Reveal to me your beauty.

Still me with the magnitude of your presence in every step of the way. Bring color to me with the breath from your lips and may your hands envelop mine so that as I lift, you are the strength supporting me, as I paint you are the hand guiding me and as I sing, you are the melody flowing through my lips.

Are you toasting?

Today I had to go to the doctors office and fill out a "happiness level" form, which had all sorts of questions on it. Im sure most of you have filled one of these things out.. every question has a rating from 0 - 5 and you have to circle how often you feel depressed or think about dying etc.

I was happy to realize that I could very truthly circle 0's for every answer because God really has taken me and made my life so incredible. I mean we all have our ups and downs, I if anyone cry pretty regularily over things like chick flicks etc. ;) but I think the biggest thing that makes me life different is that I am living for a purpose.

My hairdresser is not a christian and I feel so bad for her becuase she honestly has no purpose to living besides cutting hair and living with her boyfriend.

We were created for so much more, and only when we are living for what we are created, will we truly feel satisfied.

Think of a toaster. A toaster can hold up a couch...and thats cool and everything, but the whole time it is propping up one end, it must be thinking to itself...I feel like I am doing something...but I am just not fulfilled...I feel like I was created for something else...

and that is like us when we try to do anything other than what we were created for

We were created to be in a RELATIONSHIP with Christ. If we are in a relationship of any kind with ANYONE else, it will not satisfy, becuase every inch of our being was created to be satisfied by one specific person: Jesus.

We were created to worship! To understand the greatness of our God and truly truly love Him. If we love anything else it will not satisfy, if we adore anything else we will still be incomplete.

We were created to love. We are emotional beings, much more than any other creature, and we were created to love everyone around us, not just our spouse or boyfriend, but everyone we come in contact with, even those people that drive us nuts. If we are not doing this we will be antsy becuase we are not doing what we were created to do.

We were created to live outside of our comfort zone. Weird I know....but God did not create us to live out our whole lives in safety, peace and comfort, having the ability to get what we want when we want it. If we do this we will not feel completely satisfied becuase we were created to do much more.

And the list goes on.

What were you created for?
Are you fulfilled?

St. Augustine + a little of myself

Grant me Lord to know and understand
Speak to my soul and tell me “I am your salvation”
Speak to me so I may hear
Be opened eyes; ephphatha ears

Chorus:
You called, you shouted and you shattered all my deafness
You shone with dazzling light and dispelled all my blindness
You are fragrant, I breathed in deeply and now
I am breathless with longing for you

Awake O Sleeper rise up from the dead
And Christ will shine you
Humbly crawl into his loving arms, the veil has been removed
I tasted you and now I hunger lord, and thirst for more of you
You’ve touched my heart and now I burn with desire

bridge:
You are great and highly to be praised
(Great is your power and your wisdom is immeasurable)