By your side- Tenth Avenue North

Why are you striving these days
Why are you trying to earn grace
Why are you crying
Let me lift up your face
Just don't turn away

Why are you looking for love
Why are you still searching as if I'm not enough
To where will you go child
Tell me where will you run
To where will you run

And I'll be by your side
Wherever you fall
In the dead of night
Whenever you call
And please don't fight
These hands that are holding you
My hands are holding you

Look at these hands and my side
They swallowed the grave on that night
When I drank the world's sin
So I could carry you in
And give you life
I want to give you life

Cause I, I love you
I want you to know
That I, I love you
I'll never let you go

Perky?!?!

so anyone who knows me knows that i do not take compliments well at all...i dont like it. mainly because i dont see those things in me. tonight my small group did an "exercise" where we went around and said something uplifting and encouraging about each member of the group. At first i was unsure and had thought that brian had lost his mind in suggesting this. Despite my skepticism, by the second person i realized this really is a good idea. I enjoyed being able to tell people why i appreciate them...which is something we don't do very often in our every day busy lives. Now i will admit there are a few people there that i can name lists after lists of why i appreciate them, but there's just no time for that..the moral of the story is God is AWESOME! I am so thankful for my small group and for my rhythm "family". They really have gotten me through this last year. God placed people in my life at exactly the right time. But that's because He knows what He's doing. He is God. And well...He does have a plan :)

The lovliness of it all :)

I am truly happy in my life right now...which is something that hasn't been the case in a long time. Things have been going...well interesting...but i've never fully relied on God before, and in doing that, ya start to see just how little everything else really is. I know He has a plan for me in my life and though I may not know what that is...or as some would say I am choosing to ignore it. I don't think that's the case, however, there is a group of 6 or 7 people who feel that I should be going into ministry to be a youth minister. I just don't see that being me. I love kids, and I love working with kids...i regret that i dropped my education minor. But I think that is more where I need to be...and not in ministry. And I think that's where God is calling me. With all that said, things are still amazing. Jackson is getting sooo big!! He's almost one now!! Crazy how time flies!!! I'm pretty sure he's going to think im the coolest aunt ever when he gets older though :)
One final note...if anyone happens to find my Jeremiah 29:11 bracelet...my wrist would like it to be back on :) it fell out of my purse and i can't seem to find it anywhere :(