Playing on Swings

Today I was at a friends house with her family and I was eating as I watched some eager kids staring wide-eyed as they approached the swing-set. All they wanted was to have their mommy or daddy pick them up, place them in the seat and push them away as they soared for adventure in that simple seat of safety.

This is so like us.

Sometimes I see a swing set of my own and await God to pick me up to put me in the seat of adventure! Sometimes I'm not even old enough to sit myself in the seat...but its okay, because God can't wait to push me.

Psalm 18:19 "He brought me out into a broad place; he rescued me, because he delighted in me."

Nothing Now But You

Lord, you would have me to let go,
To lose the control that I have exerted
Only to let you hold it, to be sovereign

All that I have held onto, built around me as a cocoon
Letting go, scared and frightened, I surrender
O, What this does to the core of my heart!

Losing control, losing self-strength,
Losing who I am in who you are
I am trading in normal for extraordinary...
To let you break my heart, to operate on my soul
Painful but exhilarating, a process, yet with Your fingerprints,
Knowing that you are the Lord who makes beautiful.

I feel like I am falling
Without sight, without knowledge
Into an opening, Your door
Into the most magnificent adventure
Learning to walk by what I know of You,
By Faith, not by what I see,
For I can see nothing now but You.