Alive

Time ticks by but i don't feel a day older than the previous. I feel alive when your with me. No matter where I go, or what I do I know that I will always have joy in my soul. You are my provider, my rescuer, my comforter, my everything, my Savior!!! When did life get so good? Was it when I stopped worrying about all the ridiculous trivial issues that have so many times consumed my thoughts? Was it when I felt the music in my soul, it crept slowly but surely out of my body. First through my fingers and my toes and then I couldn't contain myself; full body moving in unison with the music!! I FEEL ALIVE! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tMKO_9SD1Y

Life's lens

The melody of the guitar and a language foreign to my ears embrace my senses. As I sit in a coffee shop (how all my stories generally begin) I stop and think to myself, “when was the last time that I really took time out of my busy schedule to do the things that I enjoy doing just for me?” I search frantically in my mind for the answer and after a few moments of pondering I come up empty. The past four months have been dedicated to as busy a social calendar as I could possibly manage and I am left feeling depleted. It is time to rejuvenate and the best way I do this is unplugged, uncharged, and totally unafraid to explore. I love to take in life through a contemplative lens; filtering what comes my way with intention to unravel truth.  The best part is that this lens isn’t mine alone anymore, it’s Jesus' too. What better way to view the world than through the creator’s eye. I will admit, in all honesty this does not come naturally to me. At the end the day how many times have I said “me, myself and I”?? Likely a great deal more than I utilize “you” in my vocabulary. That, my friends needs to change. 

A new arrangement...

I am sitting in my bed listening to "One thing remains" a song i have sung and listened to countless times, but somehow this time it has a new meaning to my life. So i stopped what i was doing, what i was thinking about and decided it was worth deciphering. I asked myself why does this song seem new, inviting in a way that I have not experienced before? And then the answer came to me, it has a beautiful new arrangement. Interesting how something so familiar can take on a whole new meaning by changing the tempo, the key sung in, the melody of the musicality, yet it is still the same song.

In many ways this reminds me of life. You continuously "sing" the same "song" and eventually it can become thoughtless, background noise, meaningless. Well, let's give our lives a new arrangement. I feel 2013 is a year full of potential for taking what God has given you and asking how he is going to rearrange it and then step into it.

Are you ready to mix this song up with me?