One Desire

I pretty much fell in love with Casting Crown's new song "Thrive."

This song speaks the desire of my heart.

"....Fill our hearts and flood our hearts and flood our souls with one desire..."

"...We lift Your Name on high...."

My favorite part is this - 

"....We were made for...."

We weren't made to be ordinary!  We weren't made to survive.  We were made to thrive!  We were made to spread His Name and love, to make darkness run and hide.

May our desire always be to know Him and make Him known.  May we never forget that we were made for so much more than ordinary lives!

What does love really mean?

WHAT LOVE REALLY MEANS

words and music by Dave and JJ Heller

He cries in the corner where nobody sees 

He’s the kid with the story no one would believe 

He prays every night,

“Dear God won’t you please, 

Could you send someone here who will love me?”

Who will love me for me 

Not for what I have done or what I will become 

Who will love me for me 

‘Cause nobody has shown me what love 

What love really means

Her office is shrinking a little each day 

She’s the woman whose husband has run away 

She’ll go to the gym after working today 

Maybe if she was thinner 

Then he would’ve stayed And she says...

Who will love me for me 

Not for what I have done or what I will become 

Who will love me for me 

‘Cause nobody has shown me what love 

What love really means

He’s waiting to die as he sits all alone 

He’s a man in a cell who regrets what he’s done 

He utters a cry from the depths of his soul 

“Oh Lord, forgive me, I want to go home”

Then he heard a voice somewhere deep inside 

And it said, “I know you’ve murdered and I know you’ve lied 

I have watched you suffer all of your life 

And now that you’ll listen, I’ll tell you that I...”

I will love you for you 

Not for what you have done or what you will become 

I will love you for you I will give you the love 

The love that you never knew

She sits in the corner of the market each day

She's the girl with the parents who've run away

She'll go home and study after selling all day

Maybe if she was smarter, they would have stayed

And she wonders...

Who will love me for me

Not for what I have done

Or what I will become

Who will love me for me

Cause nobody has shown me what love

What love really means

What love really means...

Will you love her for her?

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Three Reasons Why My Worship Leader Is Awesome!

My church's worship leader is awesome!  Benji is a songwriter and singer/musician. :)

3. He co-wrote the ever-famous Redeemed with Mike Weaver from Big Daddy Weave.



2. He toured with Mandisa and another guy.  That was before Mandisa was well-known though.  I tried to find the video of Mandisa talking about that at my church, but it seems as though no one captured it :(

1. He loves Jesus with all his heart.  Often he shares about how amazing God is.  I am sure that all our worship leaders hearts are the same- just in love with our Savior.  Here is a song that Benji and his wife Jenna wrote.  I hope you enjoy it!

Letters From War

Hello!

I have loved Mark Schultz's music ever since I was really little.  Recently, I started listening again to his cd Live...A Night of Stories and Songs.  One song really touched me, "Letters from War."

A couple years ago, I started to become friends with a girl.  We never become very good friends though.  She stopped coming to my youth group in the summer of 2011.  In November of that year, I started to correspond with a boy with Compassion.  His name was Carlos, and he lived in Mexico.  He was ten.  And his birthday was April 28.  It was the same day as my friend who I no longer saw.  I wrote to Carlos.  I told him that he was my new friend.  I got a letter from him.  It was just a simple letter not saying much.

In April 2012, he moved away from the Compassion project.  I cried.  But, I was glad it was not one of the other kids I knew better that I wrote to.  I thought I might get a final letter for him.

Five and a half months passed.  I still prayed for him, but I was no longer grieving the loss.  October 1, 2012, I got that letter.  Apparently he had gotten my letter.  He called me friend.  It was the sweetest letter I had ever gotten.  At the end he wrote that he hoped we could keep in touch because he did not want to lose a friend.  I cried.  I could not keep in touch with him for many reasons.

A couple days later, I had my itunes on shuffle.  It played "Letters from War."  It really seemed to go along with what had just happened with Carlos.  I would walk to the mailbox to see if I had letters from my "son" in a land far away- Mexico.  I would write Carlos and tell him I loved him.  I always waited for him to come home (his letters).  Honestly I think he will be a great dad.  And I think he's really brave.  I keep believing that he is safe.  And I pray for him.

So yeah, the song played and tears welled up in my eyes.  I can't tell you how much I love that song now!  I even got the piano music for it off of musicnotes (which is really hard BTW).  Please listen to it below



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Lizzie