Cry on My Shoulder

Glad to know that He's there to put me back together
every time I fall apart.
That my suffering, no matter how great
doesn't compare to the greatness of my sin.
But He bore it ALL on the cross.

by Overflow

You say you're falling apart.
Reached the end of the line.
Just looking for your place in an ordinary life.
No one calls you friend.
No one even knows your name.
You just want to feel loved instead of all the pain.

You no longer have to say.
No one's listening anyway.

Come here and cry on my shoulder.
I'll hold you 'till it's over.
I'll rescue you tonight.
Let my arms be your shelter,
Your hiding place forever.
I'll love you more than life

You're wearing a frown.
Given up on hope.
My heart is reaching out.
More than you will ever know.
Is your burden too much?
Is it more than you can bear?
I'll help carry the load if you're willing to share.

You no longer have to say.
No one's listening anyway.

Come here and cry on my shoulder.
I'll hold you 'till its over.
I'll rescue you tonight.
Let my arms be your shelter,
You're hiding place forever.
I'll love you more than life

You have had some hard times.
Had thorns placed in your side.
I know about what you've been going though.
Tears of pain are falling down.
It hurts so bad you're crying out.
Your problems won't last forever.
Let Me put you back together

25 things that make ME

1. sassy red glasses
2. plentiful opinions
3. knack for finding a good recipe
4. memories of Africa
5. heart for social justice
6. my closet
7. growing up in the Bible belt
8. dancing
9. my heroes: Granny and Pa
10. that trip to Bulgaria
11. black and white photography
12. lack of filter on my mouth
13. duct taped Bible
14. reading every word on every page
15. the girls who know me best
16. Chattie
17. running
18. a summer in China
19. my library
20. always wearing at least 2 layers
21. being "fatherless"
22. nap time
23. the Plains of AUBURN
24. the color "green"
25. Merciful Grace of my Savior

remember that high

Talking with a friend recently, she referred to someone as still being on their new believer "high."
I knew exactly what she was talking about.
I remember that high.

And what shocked me was not what she said.
But that in our lives there is a distinction between where we are now and where we were in the Lord during those first days with our Savior.
Is the fact that He took my sins on Himself and clothed me with His righteousness any less astounding today than it was all those years ago?

. . .and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all!

give it to me straight

I Want the Whole Gospel
by James MacDonald

Every single ounce of truth; give it to me straight just like it is in the Bible.

I want the whole gospel:
Don't dilute the living water--it might not quench my thirsty soul.

I want the whole gospel:
Turn on the light of Jesus Christ and don't shield my view--I need every beam of His radiant glory to dispel the darkness in me.

I want the whole gospel:
Don't block the door, or I might not get through.

I want the whole gospel:
I need an accurate map to the narrow road, because only a few are finding it.

I want the whole gospel:
Because I am wholly lost, God's verdict is wholly just, and my damnation is wholly certain.
My heart is wholly depraved and my sin is wholly mine.
My efforts are wholly futile and my escapes are wholly hopeless.
I need a whole Savior, whose whole suffering, wholly satisfies a holy God.

Please, please don't cut the corners. It's appointed unto man once to die and I have to be sure I get it right.

I have to have the whole gospel--give it to me straight. Nothing else will do!

radiate

ra·di·ant

1.	emitting rays of light; shining; bright: the radiant sun; radiant colors.

2.	bright with joy, hope, etc.: radiant smiles; a radiant future.

The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.
Hebrews 1.3

Like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the radiance around him. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. When I saw it, I fell facedown, and I heard the voice of one speaking.
Ezek 1.28

We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at it while the radiance was fading away.
2 Cor 3.13

Those who look to him are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame.
Psalm 34.5

Then you will look and be radiant, your heart will throb and swell with joy; the wealth on the seas will be brought to you, to you the riches of the nations will come.
Isa 60.5

He is THE radiance and has promised us that if we look to him we will be radiant. And draw the nations to Him. I find it "humorous" for lack of a better word, that Moses tried to hide the change happening on his face. Humorous because thousands of years later we are still doing the same thing-using religious activity to hide the true position of our hearts.

And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
2 Cor 3.18

a door of hope

Living Water swallow me
Deepest river wash me clean
Jesus, Savior more of thee
Jesus, more of thee
Come and ruin me with Your love
So no other is enough
Come and leave Your mark on me
Jesus, more of thee
Jesus, more of thee
Watermark

"Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by foresaking the Lord."

And I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals
when she burned offerings to them
and adorned herself with her ring and jewelry,
and went after her lovers
and forgot me, declares the Lord.

Therefore, behold, I will allure her,
and bring her into the wilderness,
and speak tenderly to her.
And there I will give her vineyards
and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope.

And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the Lord.

Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods. . . So I bought her. . .
Hosea

Amazing. Amazing that Jesus loves me, enough to pay the price He paid, and yet day after day I turn to other gods.

"It's true that life is far more sweet,"
Hosea thought, "when it is lost,
Then bought again at dreadful cost;
And love grows strong when it must wait,
And deep when it is almost hate."
John Piper

And God says to Hosea, "Get her back, whatever it costs, get her back."
John Piper

fear, faith and personal failure

I've never really thought of myself as someone who's afraid.
Of anything really.
Not afraid to travel the world, alone.
Not afraid to say what I think, which has gotten me in trouble more than once.
Not afraid to eat crazy things, take bush rat for example.

But, I am.
I'm afraid my life won't turn out the way I've planned.
That I won't make the impact I want to make on the world.
That I'll fail at whatever is next.
Or, that the Lord will have something different in mind.

I'm learning to trust, learning to pray in a new way.
Learning to look to Him, wait on Him like I never have before.

Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord!
O Lord, hear my voice!
Let your ears be attentive
to the voice of my pleas for mercy!

If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,
O Lord, who could stand?
But with you there is forgiveness,
that you may be feared.

I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,
and in his word I hope;
my soul waits for the Lord
more than watchmen for the morning
more than watchmen for the morning.

O Israel, hope in the Lord!
For with the Lord there is steadfast love,
and with him is plentiful redemption.
And he will redeem Israel
from all his iniquities.
Psalm 130