Songs that God gives me...

Just a quick blog to share 3 songs God has recently given me to bless me and lift me up through the changes!

Something Beautiful
by: Need to breathe

In your ocean, I'm ankle deep
I feel the waves crashin' on my feet
It's like I know where I need to be
But I can't figure out, yeah I can't figure out

Just how much air I will need to breathe
When your tide rushes over me
There's only one way to figure out
Will ya let me drown, will ya let me drown

Hey now, this is my desire
Consume me like a fire, 'cause I just want something beautiful
To touch me, I know that I'm in reach
Cause I am down on my knees, I'm waiting for something beautiful
Oh, something beautiful

And the water is risin' quick
And for years I was scared of it
We can't be sure when it will subside
So I won't leave your side, no I can't leave your side
Hey now, this is my desire
Consume me like a fire, 'cause I just want something beautiful
To touch me, I know that I'm in reach
'Cause I am down on my knees, I'm waiting for something beautiful
Oh, something beautiful

In a daydream, I couldn't live like this
I wouldn't stop until I found something beautiful
When I wake up, I know I will have
No, I still won't have what I need

Hey now, this is my desire
Consume me like a fire, 'cause I just want something beautiful
To touch me, I know that I'm in reach
'Cause I am down on my knees, I'm waiting for something beautiful
Oh, something beautiful (fade out)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueP05bkWVvQ

Totally reccomend watching..it reinforces the words!
another one
"Your hands"
JJ Heller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlL8LayF0uw

Lead me to the Cross
by Hillsong United
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdq9Q8wJdjc

Hosanna
by Hillsong United
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we4t0fAnGBA

These links SHOULD be clean and good ones...if not google and look it up...
they are BLESSING and AMAZING!!!!

Changing Directions...

If I had to guess CHANGE and DIRECTIONS can be 2 very uncomfortable words to say the least.,.well, when put together they can almost be scary, or cause anxiety...or plain old exausting!

BUT when God changes your direction, it is "PERFECT" right?

Well...YES it is the PERFECT plan for your life, because we know God created you for His purpose and His plans for you are perfect..but sometimes i think we believe that means it should be EASY..

EASY AND GODS PERFECTION are not the same thing...

in fact, when you look closer, because of the sin of this world, it can be a challenge beyond all challenges, and much harder than choosing our own direction..well at first...

as I am sure most of us have experienced our own directions costs more long term, even though it seemed SO much easier to get there...it didn't take work, we just went where we decided, no one telling us what to do, and life was in a sense "easy"...

OH but waking up from those choices can be absolutely damaging, and the scars are forever...the hurt can heal, the pain goes away, but we are left with scars...

I speak from experience...I have scars that go so very deep, and they are hidden so well no one would ever know...except God, because He was there when I received them, and He was there to heal them....but the scars are left...OH and my husband...he wasn't there for alot of these scars, or some of them, he was there for others...but God has given me a man whom I can put my full trust in to share details about these scars and he never judges me...that is a gift...

and people who have come in my life along the way I have shared some of these with..never the intimate details, because that hurt well only God and my husband can see that hurt...

so I share this to say next that Changing Directions Gods way is MUCH easy long term, but the work is very hard, and the road is filled with challenges..and as a human, and a sinful human as we all are, I have to say that trusting God through those hard parts, and following Him when He asks us to do something that we are so unsure of..well that is hard sometimes...

I find myself on my knees in tears, and the next moment praising Him for those tears, because that means I am feeling Him, and I am feeling His desires...

recently, He has made it clear it is time to go in a new direction...but not so clear on what that means or what it may look like..it has been months in the making so to speak..and even as i type I stop to ask Him to reveal something specific to me..

but for now I know He is asking I trust Him, and i have to say it has been wonderful..He has ask me to step away from many distractions in my life..which has been very hard, but the rewards of speaking to Him more consistantly far outweigh these other things..

and my focus has been on Him..and working through some of the changes He is asking...

so there it is..simple plain...maybe not worded so gracefully, but guaranteed genuine and real...

my heart is changing for the better, because it is breaking in new ways, and loving in real ways...my mind is slightly overwhlemed, yet I am talking to Him almost non-stop..and my house is disorganized, but I am playing more with my kids...and I am taking naps to rest..it remind me always of the passage "He makes me lie down in green pastures... He restores my soul" Psalm 23:2-3 and because I am not a napper normally...everytime i take one this is what He whispers to me...

God is loving me by making me rest...He is loving me by presenting new challenges so that my faith can be tested...God is loving me when He changes directions, because whichever way He is taking me, it is closer to Him...and He is loving me when He makes me stop looking at me, and when I do that I am looking at Him..

God is so very Good...

~Love you all~