Lyrics

Song lyrics have always spoken to me. I think part of loving music is sometimes being able to capture the emotion set forth by the artist and take hold of it as your own. Music can calm, excite, and move me in ways almost nothing else can. I love being able to match my exact mood to a song, and more recently my prayers to a song. Since seeing Brooke Fraser a couple of months ago I have been really loving her music. I am all about using my own words to describe whats on my mind, how I feel, or life in general. Lets face it though, musicians and songwriters are sometimes just better at it, well not sometimes, MOST of the time. So instead of trying to write about whats been most recently been on my mind I will use her lyrics to a song titled "Hymn"

If to distant lands I scatter
If I sail to farthest seas
Would you find and firm and gather 'til I only dwell in Thee?
If I flee from greenest pastures
Would you leave to look for me?
Forfeit glory to come after
'Til I only dwell in Thee

If my heart has one ambition
If my soul one goal to seek
This my solitary vision 'til I only dwell in Thee
That I only dwell in Thee
'Til I only dwell in Thee

I have been emailing back and forth with one of the team leaders from my last trip to Benin. Her signature on emails is Micah 6:8:

"And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God"

I love that verse, it is so basic yet it says it all, mmm, I love it.
:)