It's been nearly a year since I've blogged anything, holy. cow. haha
I just wanted to share this song and my thoughts on it. My Pastor, Terri Wright, turned this song on tonight at Xquisite ladies group.
ya'll know I surf and I have a great great passion for it. I couldn't imagine not surfing. I have this tick in me that wants to go to Costa Rica for missions and surf camps here for kids, it's a real huge passion and it is my heart beat.
I've had a really rough week and I've gotten to the point of not sleeping, not eating normally, withdrawing from things that I'd love on any other given day...Until Tuesday. I was literally laying in bed crying my eye balls right out of my face when I got up and got on my knees and just said "you know what, God, this isn't worth it. I surrender. I know there is freedom in surrender, I know you can give me joy and I just want to be happy again. Please take this from me and make me happy." And let me just tell you I've had to do that same exact thing more than once in the past day! But He took it all. I'm happy. I feel like I can DO life. I'm refocused and I'm sleeping and eating and it feels amazing.
Then this song came on tonight and I was just reading the words on the screen just floored. His love for me is so so great, guys.
"As Your love, in wave after wave Crashes over me, crashes over me. For you are for us, You are not against us, Champion of Heaven You've made a way for all to enter in....
You make me brave, You make me brave.
You called me beyond the shore into the waves."
Let me just tell you guys, This guy that we call God that we take so lightly so much of the time (I'm completely guilty of this) has such an intense love for us. Have you ever seen heavy surf? Have you ever been out in big surf? I've had to climb up my leash a few times in Costa Rica, I've seen 14-17 foot DUMPING in Hermosa that killed people earlier in the day, I've watched the waves come up and hit an exposed reef, I've seen the power of this water and the energy that it gives off and His LOVE is like that. It crashes over us and holds us down, sometimes until everything around us fails so that we can know his great strength and love for us. Other times it's quiet and glassy but it's always there and it's strength is never forgotten.
And His calling on your life is so huge. I am positive that Bethel/Amanda Cook/writers of this song has no idea how this one song has spoken to me. You called me beyond the shore into the waves. That's so beautiful in both the physical and the spiritual. He called me to go deeper with Him. He called me to get out in that water and not be afraid of the conditions but to just go and enjoy it.
I'm so glad God can speak to me in such intimate ways. Praise God.
You Make Me Brave
I just wanted to share this song and my thoughts on it. My Pastor, Terri Wright, turned this song on tonight at Xquisite ladies group.
ya'll know I surf and I have a great great passion for it. I couldn't imagine not surfing. I have this tick in me that wants to go to Costa Rica for missions and surf camps here for kids, it's a real huge passion and it is my heart beat.
I've had a really rough week and I've gotten to the point of not sleeping, not eating normally, withdrawing from things that I'd love on any other given day...Until Tuesday. I was literally laying in bed crying my eye balls right out of my face when I got up and got on my knees and just said "you know what, God, this isn't worth it. I surrender. I know there is freedom in surrender, I know you can give me joy and I just want to be happy again. Please take this from me and make me happy." And let me just tell you I've had to do that same exact thing more than once in the past day! But He took it all. I'm happy. I feel like I can DO life. I'm refocused and I'm sleeping and eating and it feels amazing.
Then this song came on tonight and I was just reading the words on the screen just floored. His love for me is so so great, guys.
"As Your love, in wave after wave Crashes over me, crashes over me. For you are for us, You are not against us, Champion of Heaven You've made a way for all to enter in....
You make me brave, You make me brave.
You called me beyond the shore into the waves."
Let me just tell you guys, This guy that we call God that we take so lightly so much of the time (I'm completely guilty of this) has such an intense love for us. Have you ever seen heavy surf? Have you ever been out in big surf? I've had to climb up my leash a few times in Costa Rica, I've seen 14-17 foot DUMPING in Hermosa that killed people earlier in the day, I've watched the waves come up and hit an exposed reef, I've seen the power of this water and the energy that it gives off and His LOVE is like that. It crashes over us and holds us down, sometimes until everything around us fails so that we can know his great strength and love for us. Other times it's quiet and glassy but it's always there and it's strength is never forgotten.
And His calling on your life is so huge. I am positive that Bethel/Amanda Cook/writers of this song has no idea how this one song has spoken to me. You called me beyond the shore into the waves. That's so beautiful in both the physical and the spiritual. He called me to go deeper with Him. He called me to get out in that water and not be afraid of the conditions but to just go and enjoy it.
I'm so glad God can speak to me in such intimate ways. Praise God.
You Make Me Brave
