Hello everyone!
I hope your weekend was as pleasant as ours was!
We just stayed hunkered down in the house on Saturday for the most part.
I scrapped, A played on the computer, off and on
I packed more things, and we watched My Fair Lady.
Sunday after church we went shopping {my favorite thrift store and to Penny's}.
After we went shopping,
we hit the movies and went to see Race To Witch Mountain
we both thought it was really good! We had a fun time!
A got 2 dresses and a skirt.
I got 3 pairs of shorts and I got D 5 shirts. All for 52 bucks.
You cannot beat that with a stick!
And I returned my Capri's to Penny's and got a smaller size.
I had to go through all of my shorts from last year as well
cause none of them fit {too big!}.
We came home and got into our pj's, relaxed and played some board games.
I also did laundry.
I like doing laundry. I think I am probably the only one...
I got another song to share.
This is a fairly new song.
I like the lyrics but mostly the message.
It is from
Brandon Heath
It's called "Give me your eyes"
I want to do that.
"Give me your eyes
give me your eyes so i can see
Give me your arms for the broken hearted
So i can see"
I want to be more compassionate towards people.
I want to care.
I want to see.
To affect.
To love.
To reach those beyond my reach.
A second chance.
I can only do that if I take myself out of the equation.
I must put on new eyes.
I must reach out to those outside of me.
To love unconditionally.
I want to be used by God.
I want to jump further, go farther, learn more,
and dig deeper.
Lately I have been feeling like there isn't any purpose for my blog.
I have seriously thought about getting rid of it.
I've been feeling this way for awhile now.
And it isn't a ploy, or a way to cry out for peeps to leave comments.
I just want to make sure that not only is this blog used for scrapping,
but it is an outreach.
And I feel as of late, I am not doing that very much.
I am kind of stuck with it.
I think one of the things that really bothers me is that I try to condense my
words down with each post, and don't always do a good job
of that. Nothing with me is short.
I write how I think. And how I think
comes out onto each post.
It doesn't always make sense, and sometimes might be confusing as well.
But it's me. It's straight from my heart.
And lately I haven't felt like I've been doing that much.
By being me and being real I want to touch others.
And I don't feel like I am doing that either...
So I have been pondering just getting rid of it.
Because well, I want God to work through me more so in this area.
I don't know what that means or how long I will keep blogging either...
We shall see.
I feel like my words, my sharing hasn't been from the depth of my soul.
I have so much going on, and allowed other things to get in the way
this month that I felt like I lost some of what's inside of me.
I know that not everyone is a boat jumper.
God could hardly create everyone to jump at the same time
or we'd all be sinking, like Peter.
But.. I know that I don't want to spend my entire life within the boat.
I do not believe for one minute that God wants us to stay within the boat
all of our lives either.
But I don't understand why so many are so comfortable there.
Oh, I get that some don't feel led to get out.
But what about those that are supposed too?
Comfort takes on a whole new meaning when we refuse to change.
Refuse to take on the adventure.
I, for one cannot wait for each and every adventure.
But my prayer in life is to see everyone at least water walking with Jesus.
Listen, in the huge storm
it was Peter who was willing. No matter how scared he was,
he wanted to be with Jesus.
He goes to the side of the boat and asks if it is Him.
When Jesus says that it is, he offers up the adventure of a life time to Peter.
And Peter accepts.
I know I've talked about this on here before.
I love Peter. He is someone I can completely relate too...
So he gets out of the boat, he is standing on the water with Jesus
is looking into Jesus' eyes and suddenly he realizes
that he is water walking, gets frightened, takes his eyes off of Jesus and looks
into the storm.
And he sinks.
Peter starts to drown.
Of course we know that Jesus brings his hand for Peter to grab
and then says to Peter, you of little faith..
And you can guess it's all about focus here.
We must, we need, we have to focus upon Jesus and nothing else.
No storm.
No desire.
Money.
Pleasures.
Stuff.
or people
will keep us from that focus.
Or should keep us from that focus.
But it is the getting out of the boat, no matter how scared Peter was
that I find most thrilling.
God doesn't promise us that we'll be running through a field of daisies
licking an ice cream...
But he does promise us that he will not leave us.
He grabs Peter out of the fierce waters.. He can only do this for us as well.
Thankfully, no matter how many times we chose to take our focus off of Him, he will
always be there to pull us out.
This is of course if you know him.
If you do not, you will be sinking and drown.
But I seriously think God wants us to get to the side of the boat,
ask if it is him, and take that leap.
Staying in the boat your entire life, is not something I believe that God wants us to do.
The boat is such a metaphor for so many things in one's life.
Right where I am, I want to have the Lord's eyes and arms.
I want to be used.
I am ready to get to the side of the boat for yet another adventure.
Only this time, I will actually wait upon him..
But such sweetness while waiting to realize that I will be able to walk
on the water, with Jesus.
Lord God I pray that you raise me up and use me mightily for your kingdom.
I pray Lord that you truly show me where it is you are leading me
so that I can water walk on another adventure.
I am ready.
Lord thank you so much for making me a boat jumper.
Not afraid to take risks, leap, and most of all do a canon ball of the side.
I also thank you for plucking me out of the waters when I screw it up each and every time.
It is in your precious name, I pray Amen.
Today I am praying that you to, find his eyes and arms
and that we are all learning to look beyond ourselves.
And may you find the courage to jump out of the boat you're in,
even if there are crashing waves.
I hope your weekend was as pleasant as ours was!
We just stayed hunkered down in the house on Saturday for the most part.
I scrapped, A played on the computer, off and on
I packed more things, and we watched My Fair Lady.
Sunday after church we went shopping {my favorite thrift store and to Penny's}.
After we went shopping,
we hit the movies and went to see Race To Witch Mountain
we both thought it was really good! We had a fun time!
A got 2 dresses and a skirt.
I got 3 pairs of shorts and I got D 5 shirts. All for 52 bucks.
You cannot beat that with a stick!
And I returned my Capri's to Penny's and got a smaller size.
I had to go through all of my shorts from last year as well
cause none of them fit {too big!}.
We came home and got into our pj's, relaxed and played some board games.
I also did laundry.
I like doing laundry. I think I am probably the only one...
I got another song to share.
This is a fairly new song.
I like the lyrics but mostly the message.
It is from
Brandon Heath
It's called "Give me your eyes"
I want to do that.
"Give me your eyes
give me your eyes so i can see
Give me your arms for the broken hearted
So i can see"
I want to be more compassionate towards people.
I want to care.
I want to see.
To affect.
To love.
To reach those beyond my reach.
A second chance.
I can only do that if I take myself out of the equation.
I must put on new eyes.
I must reach out to those outside of me.
To love unconditionally.
I want to be used by God.
I want to jump further, go farther, learn more,
and dig deeper.
Lately I have been feeling like there isn't any purpose for my blog.
I have seriously thought about getting rid of it.
I've been feeling this way for awhile now.
And it isn't a ploy, or a way to cry out for peeps to leave comments.
I just want to make sure that not only is this blog used for scrapping,
but it is an outreach.
And I feel as of late, I am not doing that very much.
I am kind of stuck with it.
I think one of the things that really bothers me is that I try to condense my
words down with each post, and don't always do a good job
of that. Nothing with me is short.
I write how I think. And how I think
comes out onto each post.
It doesn't always make sense, and sometimes might be confusing as well.
But it's me. It's straight from my heart.
And lately I haven't felt like I've been doing that much.
By being me and being real I want to touch others.
And I don't feel like I am doing that either...
So I have been pondering just getting rid of it.
Because well, I want God to work through me more so in this area.
I don't know what that means or how long I will keep blogging either...
We shall see.
I feel like my words, my sharing hasn't been from the depth of my soul.
I have so much going on, and allowed other things to get in the way
this month that I felt like I lost some of what's inside of me.
I know that not everyone is a boat jumper.
God could hardly create everyone to jump at the same time
or we'd all be sinking, like Peter.
But.. I know that I don't want to spend my entire life within the boat.
I do not believe for one minute that God wants us to stay within the boat
all of our lives either.
But I don't understand why so many are so comfortable there.
Oh, I get that some don't feel led to get out.
But what about those that are supposed too?
Comfort takes on a whole new meaning when we refuse to change.
Refuse to take on the adventure.
I, for one cannot wait for each and every adventure.
But my prayer in life is to see everyone at least water walking with Jesus.
Listen, in the huge storm
it was Peter who was willing. No matter how scared he was,
he wanted to be with Jesus.
He goes to the side of the boat and asks if it is Him.
When Jesus says that it is, he offers up the adventure of a life time to Peter.
And Peter accepts.
I know I've talked about this on here before.
I love Peter. He is someone I can completely relate too...
So he gets out of the boat, he is standing on the water with Jesus
is looking into Jesus' eyes and suddenly he realizes
that he is water walking, gets frightened, takes his eyes off of Jesus and looks
into the storm.
And he sinks.
Peter starts to drown.
Of course we know that Jesus brings his hand for Peter to grab
and then says to Peter, you of little faith..
And you can guess it's all about focus here.
We must, we need, we have to focus upon Jesus and nothing else.
No storm.
No desire.
Money.
Pleasures.
Stuff.
or people
will keep us from that focus.
Or should keep us from that focus.
But it is the getting out of the boat, no matter how scared Peter was
that I find most thrilling.
God doesn't promise us that we'll be running through a field of daisies
licking an ice cream...
But he does promise us that he will not leave us.
He grabs Peter out of the fierce waters.. He can only do this for us as well.
Thankfully, no matter how many times we chose to take our focus off of Him, he will
always be there to pull us out.
This is of course if you know him.
If you do not, you will be sinking and drown.
But I seriously think God wants us to get to the side of the boat,
ask if it is him, and take that leap.
Staying in the boat your entire life, is not something I believe that God wants us to do.
The boat is such a metaphor for so many things in one's life.
Right where I am, I want to have the Lord's eyes and arms.
I want to be used.
I am ready to get to the side of the boat for yet another adventure.
Only this time, I will actually wait upon him..
But such sweetness while waiting to realize that I will be able to walk
on the water, with Jesus.
Lord God I pray that you raise me up and use me mightily for your kingdom.
I pray Lord that you truly show me where it is you are leading me
so that I can water walk on another adventure.
I am ready.
Lord thank you so much for making me a boat jumper.
Not afraid to take risks, leap, and most of all do a canon ball of the side.
I also thank you for plucking me out of the waters when I screw it up each and every time.
It is in your precious name, I pray Amen.
Today I am praying that you to, find his eyes and arms
and that we are all learning to look beyond ourselves.
And may you find the courage to jump out of the boat you're in,
even if there are crashing waves.
5 comments:
You are truly amazing! The song was awesome. Thank you for awakening the battle inside of me.
that's one of my fave songs!!!
just wanted to stop by and say a quick hello...
and TAG you!!! :D
I love that song! I heard that one on the Contemporary Christian music channel on TV... very catchy and wonderful lyrics!
And as for as your blog goes, I think you have been reaching out to more people than you think. There are many of us who are interested in learning and hearing from you, Elizabeth! :)
I totally hear you on the too big shorts...LOL! I SO have that problem:)
I LOVE that song! Thoughts and prayers are still going up for you!
I don't remember how I orginally found your blog a few short months ago BUT the thing I do know is how much you have touched my life. You have been helping me walk through one of the loneliest times of my life. You've helped me to remember that God himself is their even when no one physically is around me. What you say is real, that is why I come here.
I would hate for you to give up blogging BUT if God leads you to be silent this way then that is what will be.
Blessings
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