It's early Christmas morning and everything is all calm and unusually quiet.
It just dawned on me that aside from today, there are 5 more days left of this year. Looking back on this year, through the ups and downs, I can honestly say 2008 has been a good year. I started it off with being infused with a great group of friends that have become rather close. I never saw it coming but it's been filled with blessings in disguise. I've been through the fire where God is constantly molding me into the woman He wants me to be. I'm left wondering why are we so bounded and limited by time? I believe we measure our lives in years, sorting out the good and the bad instead of taking each and everyday as one day. It ties back to the concept of us believing we are guaranteed another day. Even though we are bounded by the frame of time, in our minds, we are infinite. Shouldn't it be the other way? In other words, shouldn't we live framed lives in our minds? Taking in one day at a time and be infinite in that day with our actions and words? I find often times in life, so many things are reversed.
As for a music update, I'm finishing a song today. These past days have been a whirlwind of inspiration and a constant stream of writing flowing and fitting thoughts. It's amazing how certain facets of our lives surface in due time. Even my photography is showing a part of me that surfaces through the thin ice layered over my head called winter.
'The green comes from the frozen ground and everything will be made new again...like freedom in Spring.' -Golden (Switchfoot)
Currently listening to: Brooke Waggoner
M. Ward
Paper Route
Molly Jenson
The Honey Trees
Lydia
Vedera
Andrew Smith
Jon Foreman
Joy Yetton
Ryan Baxley
The Daylights
This Holiday Life
Check them out...they're a different stream of music and sure to inspire such souls :)
Merry Christmas everyone. Remember why we celebrate Christmas. The Birth of Christ. Heaven's love reaching down to save the world. Beautiful Son of God, Servant King...who came to be here with us, to save us and set us apart for His glory. To separate us from the horrible and wretched sin we are guilty of everyday. He loves you not in spite of, but just because.
Be blessed.
Jesus loves you...for serious.
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
2000 Decembers Ago
2000 Decembers Ago
Did it feel like a night any different
Then at least a million before
Was there any rare expectation
Like there was some kind of somethin' in store
Did the sky have to hold back the thunder
Did the moon find new reasons to glow
Could the children somehow sense the wonder
2000 Decembers Ago
Were the sheep as amazed as the shepherds
At the new star that lite up the sky
Did the willow trees whisper excitement
To the rivers and streams passing by
Did the joy ricochet off the mountains
'Til it filled up the valleys below
Did all the world sense love abounding
2000 Decembers Ago
Was anyone able to look at the stable
And not see a child but a King
I wish I could hear back over the years
As heaven & nature sing, heaven and nature sing.
Did the walls of the barn start to tremble
With a glory they could not contain
Did anyone wake with the feeling
Of peace that they could not explain
Oh the love must have been overwhelming
As it warmed everyone in its flow
For all of the earth is still telling
Of 2000 Decembers ago
Was anyone able to look at the stable
And not see a child but a king
I wish I could hear back over the years
As heaven and nature sing, heaven and nature sing
Oh the love must have been overwhelming
2000 Decembers Ago -Joy Williams
Did it feel like a night any different
Then at least a million before
Was there any rare expectation
Like there was some kind of somethin' in store
Did the sky have to hold back the thunder
Did the moon find new reasons to glow
Could the children somehow sense the wonder
2000 Decembers Ago
Were the sheep as amazed as the shepherds
At the new star that lite up the sky
Did the willow trees whisper excitement
To the rivers and streams passing by
Did the joy ricochet off the mountains
'Til it filled up the valleys below
Did all the world sense love abounding
2000 Decembers Ago
Was anyone able to look at the stable
And not see a child but a King
I wish I could hear back over the years
As heaven & nature sing, heaven and nature sing.
Did the walls of the barn start to tremble
With a glory they could not contain
Did anyone wake with the feeling
Of peace that they could not explain
Oh the love must have been overwhelming
As it warmed everyone in its flow
For all of the earth is still telling
Of 2000 Decembers ago
Was anyone able to look at the stable
And not see a child but a king
I wish I could hear back over the years
As heaven and nature sing, heaven and nature sing
Oh the love must have been overwhelming
2000 Decembers Ago -Joy Williams
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Fragile Sunset
Yesterday afternoon, I took a short nap. Jesus woke me up so I could go and watch the sunset with Him. It reminded me that I am fragile. It was a display of a beautiful death and decay of another day. The night drew in and so did the winter cold.
-He makes all things new.
-He knows my setting and my rising.
-He was, is, and always will be.
Psalm 39:5- Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths, and my age is as nothing before You;
Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor. Selah
-He makes all things new.
-He knows my setting and my rising.
-He was, is, and always will be.
Psalm 39:5- Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths, and my age is as nothing before You;
Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor. Selah
Monday, December 22, 2008
she packs her things and she goes
This is practically a public display.
Self inflicted wounds... the only profound ones we all suffer from. There's a song by matchbox20 I came across on one of their very first albums. The album is called 'yourself or someone like you'. The song is called 'hang'. At this very moment in time I can relate to this line "she's been here too few years to feel this old..." I'm disgusted with our human nature. The one that defiles and corrupts for selfish greed. The one that at all costs, continues to slap God in the face and is followed by an insincere apology with the means of repeating to offend Him sometime within the near future. I long to be in that place where my heart doesn't ache to know that I am one of those....that I am one of those deceivers. One of those that continue to betray Him with a kiss. How can we be so foolish into thinking that apart from God we can succeed? That apart from Him we can overcome? That apart from Him we can go on our own? It's a recursive cycle that puts us right where we started. A stage we know all too well. Yet, we are willing to give up and give in.
I'm feeling the weight of this grave of a body. I've often entertained the thought of leaving it all behind and going away.
Then I arrived at this conclusion:
"and we always say, it would be good to go away, someday. but if there's nothing there to make things change, if it's the same for you, i'll just hang."
This is the beginning of a new beautiful release. Just trying to make it right.
Self inflicted wounds... the only profound ones we all suffer from. There's a song by matchbox20 I came across on one of their very first albums. The album is called 'yourself or someone like you'. The song is called 'hang'. At this very moment in time I can relate to this line "she's been here too few years to feel this old..." I'm disgusted with our human nature. The one that defiles and corrupts for selfish greed. The one that at all costs, continues to slap God in the face and is followed by an insincere apology with the means of repeating to offend Him sometime within the near future. I long to be in that place where my heart doesn't ache to know that I am one of those....that I am one of those deceivers. One of those that continue to betray Him with a kiss. How can we be so foolish into thinking that apart from God we can succeed? That apart from Him we can overcome? That apart from Him we can go on our own? It's a recursive cycle that puts us right where we started. A stage we know all too well. Yet, we are willing to give up and give in.
I'm feeling the weight of this grave of a body. I've often entertained the thought of leaving it all behind and going away.
Then I arrived at this conclusion:
"and we always say, it would be good to go away, someday. but if there's nothing there to make things change, if it's the same for you, i'll just hang."
This is the beginning of a new beautiful release. Just trying to make it right.
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