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| My 2007 soundtrack
- Unwell * Matchbox Twenty
- Amazed * Lincoln Brewster
- Wedding Dress * Derek Webb
- You Are My Joy * David Crowder*Band
- Lord We Come * Stefan Van Voorst
- Letter Song * Tyler Hilton
- It's Not Over * Daughtry
- Grace * Warren Barfield
- Follow Love * FFH
- Unwritten * Natasha Beddingfield
- Rescue * Desperation Band
- Feels Like Tonight * Daughtry
- See You * Shaun Groves
- Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) * Chris Tomlin
- No Matter What It Takes * Jeremy Camp
- Stand Amazed * 33 Miles
- Hold On * 33 Miles
- Beyond Measure * Jeremy Camp
- Home * Daughtry
- Resolution * Nick Lachey
- I Love You Lord * Go Fish
- From the Inside Out * Hillsong
- Changing World * Kutless
- Beautiful * Bethany Dillon
- I Want to Live * Josh Gracin
- Storm * Lifehouse
- You Know My Name * Detour 180
- Back to the Cross * Detour 180
- Say It Again * Article One
- Take It All * Hillsong
- See My Savior * Detour 180
- Mighty to Save * Hillsong
- Use Me * Plus One
- Hush * Shawn McDonald
- Arms of Love * Amy Grant
- Raining on the Inside * Amy Grant
- Beg * Shane Bernard and Shane Everett
- Song of Hope * Robbie Seay Band
- How Is It Between Us * Sara Groves
- Lay It Down * Among Thorns
- For Good * Wicked
- Mistakes We Knew We Were Making * Straylight Run
- You Alone Are God * Hillsong
- Over You * Daughtry
- Now It's Done * Straylight RUn
- Rise * Robbie Seay Band
- Who We Are * Lifehouse
- Savior * Go Fish
- Damaged Goods * Erin O'Donnell
- Maybe * Kelly Clarkson
- Quiet You With My Love * Rebecca St. James
- Happy Christmas * Rebecca St. James
and there you have it...each song corresponding to a week of the year...a specific memory...or time of growth...
this year seems flooded with a specific theme, and what that really means I'm not quite sure. I don't want to think about this year.
I've learned a lot.
But I don't know that I've changed a lot.
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| The song rolling through my head is Happy Christmas by Rebecca St. James
So this is Christmas
And what have you done
Another year over
A new one's just begun
And so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young
A very merry Christmas
And a happy new year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear
And so this is Christmas
For weak and for strong
For rich and the poor ones
The world is so wrong
And so happy Christmas
For black and for white
For yellow and red ones
Let's stop all the fight
CHORUS:
A very merry Christmas
And a happy new year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear
A very merry Christmas
And a happy new year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear
Without any fear
Without any fear
Without any fear
Without any fear
And, so this is Christmas
And what have we done
Another year over
And a new one's just begun
And, so Happy Christmas
We hope you have fun
The near and the dear ones
The old and the young
CHORUS(2x)
It's sad to say the years just seem to run together...it becomes harder to tell one year from the next. I want this next year to stand out in my mind. I want to make it a good one.
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| There's a need write with words that don't seem to want to be written.
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| So a friend has mentioned to me a couple times these last few weeks that I seem to be a bit out of sorts. And that may be true. I can't explain it. There's just this feeling of unrest and unease pervading my spirit. And today, I stumbled my way into the book of Jonah - a story I've heard all my life - can probably repeat backwards and forwards - but I don't know the last time I actually read it for myself.
And Jonah 2 hit me like a ton of bricks. It describes perfectly how I'm feeling. I feel as though I'm being dragged down, but that I know my God will answer when he hears my cry. And maybe the reason this feeling is not going away is that I haven't called out. Maybe I've enjoyed this feeling of despondency. But it's time for me to step out and break away. To start afresh and take God's hand that he is holding out to pull me out of this pit I'm in.
And then I read about Jonah and the vine...and I began to question my own personality. I think I have become like Jonah. Angry with God's compassion and grace for others. Oh, I don't tell God that it's night right for him to be compassionate like Jonah did, but I do have this tendency to try to go by the law and uphold those around me to it 100%. I forget God's lesson of Grace.
Grace. Something that has so touched my life, but I can't seem to give it to others.
And so today I ponder..."have I become just like Jonah?"
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| I was challenged by a very good friend tonight that as a Christian, I should be much more open with my faith. I'm so bad about that.
So please, please, my dear close friends, help challenge me in this area...and I'll return the favor!
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