Struggling with emotional lows today. So much going on. This piece (link below) is helping me right now.
BORN AGAIN – NEWSBOYS
“I didn’t want to fall, but I don’t have to crawl … I met the one with two scarred hands…”
My mother quoted herself to me recently, “Even if you fall into the gutter, you don’t have to stay there.”
So let’s get a move on – up and onward.
Don’t you find that when you can focus on something else or better yet , God, that you don’t notice your struggles so much? I find it’s hard to do when you are down. But it’s possible! You have the right attitude, Maria and God will bless you. Don’t give up – keep movin’ on!
Maria,
You have many friends over here. We are just about to begin our prayer and praise and will lift you up to the Lord. Dear one, may you become aware of that deep, innermost kiss of the Holy Spirit.
Loving you deeply,
Mary
Yea MOM!!! I suppose its true, you can fall into the gutter, but you truly don’t have to stay there.
🙂
thinking and praying for you. Most days I have a top five (for the fingers & thumb on my hand) who I try to remember actively throughout the day. You are there along with a 15 year old boy with drug & alcohol probs; a student who is bipolar, about to be homeless and failing my class; and two of my daughters who are discerning life issues right now. Good company.
you are loved.
Thanks so much Kathy! I will pray for your “finger-people” today as well.
Maria
“Let them praise His name with dancing and make music to Him with tambourine and strings.” –Psalm 149:3
Maria….
Also, another Newsboys song that brings you to mind…SHINE. Many times an image of you comes to mind and your face is shining, happy and radiant (of course this was before your trials…). “Shine, let ’em see just what you got, let ’em wish that they were not on the outside lookin bored…Shine, shine before all men, do good works and then let ’em glorify the Lord.
Get the song Shine and BLAST it from your CD player. Let the sound bounce off the walls.
Also blast a song from the alt pop group RAZE called “Say the Word” –the chorus just makes me feel like I can do anything in the Lord–I really do feel free, lighter and I really do feel like nothing is missing from my life– the chorus gives me great energy.
Lyrics:
Day after day I wake up with a jump
I grab my shirt, grab my hat and
I take my burnt toast
In my mind everything seems fine
It`s alright, it`s okay
But somehow I know something`s missing
Without your love
Without your peace
It`s the same thang
Everybody feels it
Day after day, in every way
I wanna take each step with you
Chorus:
I just say the word and I`m free
Oh I just say the word
And now nothing`s missing
Isn`t it weird that we say what we say
And we still do what we wanna do
Somehow I gotta find a way
To break through all these selfish tendencies
Without your love
Without your peace
It`s still the same ol` thang
Yeah, everybody feels it
Day after day, this I pray
That I take each step with You
Chorus
Say the word and now I`m free
Say the word nothing`s missing
(repeat)….