Lyrics Say It Better

"I don't know how I got to where I am... All I know is I wanna go back to the moment I fell in love with grace, and hear You whisper, 'Hang on hang on I know your hope seems gone. Hang on hang on sometimes the heartache makes you strong...'"

"Jesus take this heart that feels so cold again and make it new. I hold this hope inside that You'll never leave me... All I want is for Your love to hold me..."

"Life is so much more than what your eyes are seeing. You will find your way if you keep believing."

"When you are grounded by your doubt, when you're surrounded and there is no other way out, I will be all that you need and I'm here for the asking. Let Me be your everything... Look at all that I will bring in exchange for what you have; let Me be your everything."

"You said You'd never leave or forsake me. Then You said this life is gonna shake me. Then You said this world is gonna be trouble to my soul. This i know; when everything falls apart Your arms hold me together. When everything falls apart You're the only hope for this heart."

"I've never felt so torn before; seems I don't know where to start. But it's now that I feel Your grace fall like rain from every fingertip washing away my pain. I still believe in Your faithfulness...even when I don't see I still believe."

"Please be my strength cause I don't have anymore."

"You stay the same through the ages... Your love never changes.... You make, all things, work together for my good."

"Whatever You're doing, inside of me, it feels like chaos, but I believe that You're up to something bigger than me."

My Favorite

This is my (current) all-time favorite song! Jason could totally sing this song to me...cause I see myself in the girl being sung to! I love this song. It's such a good reminder to me - that no matter what, he loves me like crazy! For some reason that can be the last thing I think of when things get tough...

Crazy Girl

Eli Young Band

Baby why you wanna cry?
You really oughta know that I
Just have to walk away sometimes
We’re gonna do what lovers do
We’re gonna have a fight or two
But I ain’t ever changin’ my mind

Crazy girl, don’t you know that I love you?
And I wouldn’t dream of goin’ nowhere
Silly woman, come here, let me hold you
Have I told you lately?
I love you like crazy, girl

Wouldn’t miss a single day
I’d probably just fade away
Without you, I’d lose my mind
Before you ever came along
I was livin’ life all wrong
Smartest thing I ever did was make you all mine

Crazy girl, don’t you know that I love you?
And I wouldn’t dream of goin’ nowhere
Silly woman, come here, let me hold you
Have I told you lately?
I love you like crazy, girl

Crazy girl

Crazy girl, don’t you know that I love you?
And I wouldn’t dream of goin’ nowhere
Silly woman, come here, let me hold you
Have I told you lately,
I love you like

Crazy, girl, don’t you know that I love you?
And I wouldn’t dream of goin’ nowhere
Silly woman, come here, let me hold you
Have I told you lately?
I love you like crazy, girl

Like crazy
Crazy girl
Like crazy
Crazy girl
Like crazy

PS: I really don't like the music video though...it almost ruined the song!

How Can I Remain Silent?

This morning I went to an Easter sunrise service at Willamette's stadium! And right now I'm standing in my friend Mel's kitchen, waiting for the resurrection rolls to get out of the oven!

The service was great! This sweet lady named Doris, who reminded me (in looks and actions) of my Grandmommy, sat next to me during the service. It was chilly and I had only a sweater, so she pressed close against my shoulder to keep my left side warmer. I let her borrow my Bible when she asked, which thought was the sweetest thing. I took sermon notes (like always) and she thought that was very cool. She was so excited about the sermon and the resurrection that she kept whispering to me and she wanted to stand up and shout and dance! She was so precious and sweet!

The sermon was great. Rev. David Thommen preached about our response to the resurrection from Mark's account (chapter 16). He said the account was not just to inform us, but to compel us as well. The resurrection of Christ is the greatest news imaginable! The resurrection is significant because of several reasons, these just being some:

- 1 Peter 1:3 ensures new birth

- Rom 4 ensures justification

- Rom 6 ensures our sanctification (being made holy)

- 1 Cor 15 ensures our future bodily resurrection

- Rom 8 ensures a new creation (new earth)

Our response should be two-fold:

1) the resurrection account demands belief (it's a historical fact, recorded with eye-witnesses and time and place markers!)

2) action: go and tell!

How can we be silent about this? What will you do?

I also never got to post anything on Good Friday. I thought I'd just post little bits of songs and verses that stood out to me from the two services (one chapel and one church) I attended.

"For it is in our sin that God encounters us. God is God of the broken."

"Your cross has placed in me my worth"

"Unlimited mercy"

"Because of grace, because of Your mercy, I stand here unashamed"

"As a result He brought you into His own presence and you are holy and blameless as you stand before Him - without single fault." Colossians 1:22

"Forever my love, forever my heart, forever my life is Yours"

"I was carried to the table, seated where I don't belong. And I was swept away by His love. I don't see my brokenness anymore, when I'm seated at the table of the Lord!"

He is risen!!

What is your response?

1 Peter 1:18-19

For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And the ransom he paid was not mere gold or silver. It was the precious blood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God.

You Are More

There's a girl in the corner

With tear stains on her eyes

From the places she's wandered

And the shame she can't hide

She says, "How did I get here?

I'm not who I once was.

And I'm crippled by the fear

That I've fallen too far to love"

But don't you know who you are,

What's been done for you?

Yeah don't you know who you are?

You are more than the choices that you've made,

You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,

You are more than the problems you create,

You've been remade.

Well she tries to believe it

That she's been given new life

But she can't shake the feeling

That it's not true tonight

She knows all the answers

And she's rehearsed all the lines

And so she'll try to do better

But then she's too weak to try

But don't you know who you are?

You are more than the choices that you've made,

You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,

You are more than the problems you create,

You've been remade.

You are more than the choices that you've made,

You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,

You are more than the problems you create,

You've been remade.

'Cause this is not about what you've done,

But what's been done for you.

This is not about where you've been,

But where your brokenness brings you to

This is not about what you feel,

But what He felt to forgive you,

And what He felt to make you loved.

You are more than the choices that you've made,

You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,

You are more than the problems you create,

You've been remade.

You are more than the choices that you've made,

You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,

You are more than the problems you create,

You've been remade.

You've been remade

You've been remade.

You've been remade.

You've been remade.

"You Are More" by Tenth Avenue North

Good song. Thank you Jesus!

"God promised the world --

why on earth would you settle for less?!"

You Can Have Me

If I saw You on the street
And You said come and follow me
But I had to give up everything
All I once held dear and all of my dreams
Would I love You enough to let go
Or would my love run dry
When You asked for my life
When did love become unmoving?
When did love become unconsuming?
Forgetting what the world has told me
Father of love, You can have me
You can have me
If You’re all You claim to be
Then I’m not losing anything
So I will crawl upon my knees
Just to know the joy of suffering
I will love You enough to let go
Lord, I give you my life
I give you my life
When did love become unmoving?
When did love become unconsuming?
Forgetting what the world has told me
Father of love, You can have me
You can have me
I want to be where You are
I’m running into Your arms
And I will never look back
So Jesus, here is my heart
When did love become unmoving?
When did love become unconsuming?
Forgetting what the world has told me
Father of love, You can have me
You can have me
When did love become unmoving?
When did love become unconsuming?
Forgetting what the world has told me
Father of love, You can have me
My Father, my love
You can have me

A Love Song

This is a song I wrote and today Monz put it to music and recorded it!! She's amazing! I can't wait to hear it!!

A Love Song

(from Psalm 63 & Song of Songs)

Jesus, Lover of my Soul

Earnestly I seek You

My soul thirsts for You

My body longs for You

Because Your love is better than life

Lover, I can’t get enough of You

So here I am in this place of worship

Eyes open, drinking in Your strength & glory

In Your love I am finally alive

I hold on to You for dear life

You’re captured my heart, dear Lover

You looked at me and I fell in love

One look my way and I was hopelessly in love

My Darling, my Beautiful One

You have stolen my heart

You are my King, you are my Friend.

But You are more than that

You are my Lover

All I want to do is be with You

I am faint with love for You

My dear Lover,

You’re one in a million

No one even compares to You
Everything about You delights me

Thrills me through & through

I am my Lover’s

I’m all He wants

I’m all the world to Him

My heart beats for Him alone

I am my Lover’s and my Lover is mine

This love is stronger than death

It’s jealously unyielding as the grave

A love that burns like a with a mighty flame

The fire of this love stops at nothing.

This love is forever.

[grace]

"So you thought you had to keep this up

All the work that you do

So we think that you're good

And you can't believe it's not enough

All the walls you built up

Are just glass on the outside

So let 'em fall down

There's freedom waiting in the sound

When you let your walls fall to the ground

We're here now"

The More I Seek You

The more i seek you,

The more i find you

The more i find you, the more I love you

 

I wanna sit at your feet

Drink from the cup in your hand.

Lay back against you and breath, here your heart beat

This love is so deep, it's more than I can stand.

I melt in your peace, it's overwhelming

Open Skies

Praise Him under open skies

Everything breathing praising God

In the company of all who love the King

I will dance, I will sing

It could be heavenly

Turn the music loud, lift my voice and shout

From where I am

From where I've been

He's been there with me

He's built a monument

His very people

So let his people

Sing, sing, sing

And it's so wonderful

Just to be here now

Praise Him under open skies

Everything breathing praising God

In the company of all who love the King

Let us dance, let us sing

It could be heavenly

Turn the music loud and sing

  Lift your voice to heaven

Lift up your head and sing

To the One who gave his love

This is our offering

Lift your voice to heaven

Lift up your head and sing

To the One who gave His son

Here our lives we bring

["Open Skies" by David Crowder -- our theme song]

Today the Jen, Courtney, Amy, Kate and I drove to Lincoln City and spent a beautiful day playing on the beach and then walking around the outlet mall. After that we drove 8 more miles south to Depoe Bay and ate this amazing and expensive seafood dinner at Tidal Rave. It was a very local, classy, and well known restaurant -- we were the youngest people in it! And we met about 4 elderly couples that were all very friendly to us! It was fun!

Spring Break Is Coming Soon!!

I repeat...Spring break is coming soon! Pray for me to finish strong this week! I have a big test in anatomy on Monday...a 4 paper paper on "Apostasy in Islam, A Religious Liberty" due on Tuesday for Baptist Heritage plus a huge lab quiz on Tuesday in anatomy...a huge American Thought and Culture [did I mention spring break is coming soon?!!] test on Wednesday, and a 6 page paper on the 1960 and 1998 Olympics due Friday!! Plus I have a 3 hour track practice every day! Double plus I'm really missing my family and Jason and am ready to be home and have a [short] break!

This has become my prayer:
"Teach me how to rest in Your hands!" (from the song "Ready for You" by Kutless)



PS: Spring break is coming soon! It starts this weekend!

Can You Tell That I'm Missing Him...?

"Someday soon we'll be together...where a moment lasts forever...our love shines brighter than the stars...until then I will remember...every word and every letter...the promises you've written on my heart..."