You Complete me...

Many a day I feel incomplete - not like as a person. Not like I'm looking for that someone wonderful to "complete me" no Jerry McGuires PLEASE! More like spent, more like unfinished in my goals, thoughts, daily tasks. I love the last line of this verse - Its not that one day we will be completed but the very ONE who is COMPLETE has already cancelled all my incompletes - awesome thought for the day.

1 Corinthians 13:8-10 (The Message)
8-10Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.

WAIT.

'Wait' by Russ Kelfer.

Desperately, helplessly, longingly, I cried;Quietly, patiently, lovingly, God replied.
I pled and I wept for a clue to my fate…
And the Master so gently said, “Wait.”
“Wait? You say wait?” my indignant reply.“Lord, I need answers, I need to know why!”Is your hand shortened? Or have you not heard?By faith I have asked, and I’m claiming your Word.My future and all to which I relate hangs in the balance, and you tell me to ‘Wait?’I’m needing a ‘yes,’ a go-ahead sign. Or even a ‘no,’ to which I’ll resign.You promised, dear Lord, that if we believe,We need but to ask, and we shall receive.Lord, I’ve been asking, and this is my cry:I’m wearing of asking! I need a reply!
Then quietly, softly, I learned of my fate,as my Master replied again, “Wait.”
So I slumped in my chair, defeated and taut, and grumbled to God, “So, I’m waiting….for what?”
He seemed then to kneel, and His eyes met with mine…and He tenderly said“I could give you a sign.I could shake the heavens and darken the sun. I could raise the dead and cause mountains to run. I could give all you seek and pleased you would be. You’d have what you want, but you wouldn’t know Me.You’d not know the depth of My love for each saint.You’d not know the power that I give to the faint.You’d not learn to see through clouds of despair;you’d not learn to trust just by knowing I’m there.You’d not know the joy of resting in Mewhen darkness and silence are all you can see.You’d never experience the fullness of lovewhen the peace of My spirit descends like a dove.You would know that I give, and I save, for a start, But you’d not know the depth of the beat of My heart.The glow of My comfort late into the night,the faith that I give when you walk without sight.The depth that’s beyond getting just what you askFrom an infinite God who makes what you have last.
You’d never know should your pain quickly flee, what it means that My grace is sufficient for thee.Yes, your dearest dreams overnight would come true,but oh, the loss, if you missed what I’m doing in you.
So, be silent, my child, and in time you will seethat the greatest of gifts is to truly know Me.
And though oft My answers seem terribly late,My most precious answer of all is still…
“Wait.”

Letting GO.

I can't get these song lyrics out of my head this week, so I am posting them. With all that is whirling around in your life, in your head just let it go..........

Francesca Battistelli Lyrics - I’m Letting Go Lyrics

My heart beats, standing on the edgeBut my feet have finally left the ledge
Like an acrobat
There’s no turning back
ChorusI’m letting go
Of the life I planned for meAnd my dreamsLosing control
Of my destinyFeels like I’m falling and that’s what it’s like to believe
So I’m letting go
This is a giant leap of faith
Trusting and trying to embrace
The fear of the unknown
Beyond my comfort zone
Chorus:
I’m letting go
Of the life I planned for me
And my dreamsLosing control
Of my destiny
Feels like I’m falling and that’s what it’s like to believe
So I’m letting go

Giving in to your gravity
Knowing You are holding meI’m not afraid
Feels like I’m falling and that’s what it’s like to believe
Feels like I’m falling and this is the life for me

I’m Letting Go Lyrics - Francesca Battistelli Song Words

The Wailing Wall

I went to see the movie "The secret life of bees" it was interesting and strange on many levels. There was a character / sub-plot that grabbed me...I believe the characters name was Ms. May, she had lost her twin-sister to death and since that time was never "right" mentally. The members of her house hold came up with a way to release her pain when it became to much of a burden for her...Ms. May would go to the back-yard and write down her pain/sorrow on a piece of paper, fold it up and stick it into the man-made stone wall...a mini version of the wailing wall in Jerusalem. This scene in the movie struck me because in March of 2005 I did this very act. I stood at the wailing wall in Jerusalem at about 1am and wrote private matters on to paper and placed them in the cracks of the literal wailing wall. I was about five weeks pregnant with Zachary and did not know it. For the last three years the wailing wall has been a theme of my life a symbol of my own journey, so you can imagine the flood of emotions that washed over me in the movie theater not prepared for the message sent to me. As a new year approaches and a new chapter of life unfolds I read a quote today that sums up the last three years and the choice to walk forward with the Friend that is my past, my present and my future...the quote read:
"Make your wailing wall your throne of praise, overcome those things that have overcome you."
There is eternal life in Christ and eternity starts...NOW! Blessings for 2009 and beyond.

Strength for ALL things

Most believers are familiar with the verse in the Bible that says "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me". I like the amplified version that says: " I have strength for ALL things in Christ Who empowers me [I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him Who infuses inner strength into me; I am self-sufficient in Christ's sufficiency]." The more people I meet along life's path and say to me "how do you do it" - I wonder if people really read the Bible and not only read it but do we really believe what it says. No, it's not always easy or fun raising twins and a special needs son who has many needs. The promise, the good, the joy always out weigh the challenges. I've tried to figure out why pity (not empathy but pity) from others bothers me so bad and I think that verse in Philippians 4:13 is the root. It's almost offensive that people look at each others life circumstances and compare and wonder "how do they do it". In the context of a follower of Christ how does the military family say goodbye to the solider, how does a spouse cope with the loss of their love, how does a family find hope in the midst of a cancer diagnosis, how does one over come failure, how can someone look beyond the mountain of debt? No matter what the trial, believers have been given a promise. The promise is strength for ALL things only by Christ who empowers us. I take this promise to heart every day I get up and change a feeding tube, lift and haul a heavy wheelchair, carpool multiple children around, help my husband when it's not convenient, answer the same six year old question for the hundredth time that day and so on....I don't pride myself in being independent, but I do realize that the same power that rose Christ from the dead lives in me so why wouldn't I be able to do what needs to be done for my family no matter how challenging the task. Christ in me, the hope of Glory. Then there is the benefit we have of having a supernatural or eternal mindset about the things we face day to day here on earth...Yes Lord remind me that when I turn my eyes on You the things of this world grow strangely dim in the LIGHT of your Mercy and Grace.