Hello Good Morning How ya do?

It’s actually not morning yet in my little world…I’ve got about ten minutes, but since I’m listening to my reality’s song right now (Learning to Breathe by Switchfoot) thought I’d title this one the first line of that jam.

I spoke about it a little earlier in the post “learning to breathe”, but as I listen to it now there’s so much more to this learning to breathe than I led on. More than anything is the line that penetrates deep inside of me…

I’m dying to breathe in these abundant skies…

Oh Lord knows I really am dying to breathe in these abundant skies. Lately my question has been what does it look like to love Him with all my heart, body, soul, and mind. What is my new normal? How can I embrace humility in such a way that His divinity is seen? (as Erwin McManus has been challenging me lately)

I already know this world has nothing for me…it’s emptiness cloaked in silver and gold…vain glory if you can call that glory at all. I just want to pour out…but what does that look like?

Ha…funny how He works. Just got my answer. It’s simple…2 things: love and truth. No two things fit more beautifully together than pure love and untainted truth. In daily life the call is simply to love and bring forth truth…usher in Light. It looks different for everyone, but for me it looks a lot like what I’ve already been given the opportunity to do…love without limit and be a vessel of truth to the weary and the confused.

I love loving people…I can say that God’s infused and is further infusing in me a heart that feels the pain of His people and just wants to love them like He does…seeing all their broken pieces and only wanting to put them back together again. Over the past year or couple of months rather my heart has become so tender…I truly understand now when God said he would remove our hearts of stone and give us a heart of flesh undivided and filled with His spirit (Ezekiel 11:19). And now after years of bottling up tears and walking tall…I welcome the healing flood (ha! never thought I’d say that!).

Goodness! If only some of you knew me when I was the Stone Cold Steve Austin of spirituality. My philosophy was if you never let anyone in then no one can ever hurt you, but oh what a lie that is. It’s a crippling deception that shuts out love and fosters pain. Thanks be to God! I love how he changes me. I can’t wait to see the woman I’ll be after further pruning…oh I’m far too blessed to know Him.

Praise be to the LORD, for he showed his wonderful love to me
when I was in a besieged city. -Psalm 31:21

Call My Name

 

Listening to:
Song: Call My Name
Artist: Third Day
Album: Revelation

 

 

Call My Name
By Third Day

It’s been so long since
You felt like you were loved
So what went wrong
But do you know
There’s a place where you belong
Here in My Arms

Chorus:
When you feel like you’re alone in your sadness
It seems like no one else in this whole world cares
And you want to get away from the madness
You just call My name and I’ll be there
You just call My name and I’ll be there

The pain inside
Has erased your hope for love
Soon you will find
That I’ll give you all
That your heart could ever want
And so much more

Chorus:
When you feel like you’re alone in your sadness
It seems like no one else in this whole world cares
And you want to get away from the madness
You just call My name and I’ll be there
You just call My name and I’ll be there

You just call My name
You just call My name
Call My name say it now
I want you to never doubt
The love I have for you is so alive
CALL MY NAME SAY IT NOW
I WANT YOU TO NEVER DOUBT
THE LOVE I HAVE FOR YOU IS SO ALIVE

You just call My name
You just call My name
You just call My name

The love I have for you is so alive
The love I have for you is so alive
You just call My name
You just call My name
You just call My name

What a beautiful blessing it is to know that You never leave Father. Even when the world around me crumbles…when relationships fade. Even when I feel so alone in this world…You are here with me.

“what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?” -Psalm 8:4

Lord I did nothing to deserve this love…nothing. Why? Why do you love me? Why do you love any of us? We live lives loving and then leaving You…still You gently draw us near to You. What great love is this…that the King of the universe would call me…would call me friend.

You are deserving of everything I have to give. Oh God, that I would only call Your name…that I would only call Your name.

“that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,” -Philippians 2:10