princess

Dear God,

Thanks for making me feel like a princess.  I don't deserve it, but you seem to really like to spoil us :)

I was walking outside just now, God, going to the chapel auditorium from the sun room with big windows....  I went out and the snow flakes were soft, and big as plump bumblebees.  They spun and flew around me, and others even gently fell on me.  I looked up to see, and hear, three birds zooming by towards the post office of the student center-- and the sun was shining, so I just saw dark bird shapes flying in front of sun.  How delightful to see!  I couldn't help but jump through the snowy grass I was in, until I reached the sidewalk.

Then the wind played with my hair!  I felt beautiful, wind pulling at me and i couldn't help but smile at everything going on.  The world felt playful and delightful, and I felt that way, too.

God, thanks for spoiling me.  Thanks for sharing beauty with me.  You delight my heart!  I'm really thankful that you delight in me (and all of us individually).

take my heart

God, Yes.
I say YOU have my heart.
You asked.

"Yes."

Take it, ceil it, it is thine own;
I crave to walk with Thee and unto Thee, LORD.

You win over flesh and my selfish desires,
You crowd out the "id" within me with Holy Waters.

Yes- take my life, I am Yours.
By Your grace and kind working on my behalf.
THANK YOU!
Love You!!

Amen.

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After writing, came across this AWESOME song by Jason Gray that fits, too...  May be my new "life song".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=QS_7cjIk4k0

This one has the same message in a way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn0RHh3BQT4

Not a captive, but free

She cried, "Liberty!"

Ruth set forth on her voyage,

Heart beating bold and her resolution, stone.

She looked behind- everything she never thought she could do without,
Was left behind.

How stubborn the webs, the coverings, the ropes had all been.

So many were pleasant and good, but as she stepped forth,

They pulled her back.

Impossibility-

She could not go forward if they were holding her.

She cut the ties she never thought she would need to or could

And stepped forward.  Again, again, again.

Every so often she would have to STOP as another bond made her jerk to a stop.

They were dearer the farther she moved on.

But they were cut by some rumble within her soul, and Ruth made her way to her destination.

God was her light whom she followed.   Something inside her commanded, "GO"--

And somehow, she was doing just that.

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Lord, I long for such a testimony.  I am so weak-willed often times.  I LONG to be doing what you've told me, even if it is just me and you on the journey.  You are more than enough, I have faith in that.  My heart my reel and I might cry or grieve, but I want to KNOW that you.  are.  enough.  I want to be Yours.
Please show me the areas that are holding me from what you want me to be doing.  Convict my heart. Search me and show me.  Then Lord, help me to turn from those things by Your grace.  All things are possible with God.
In Jesus, name, Amen.