I'm so bad about this, but I often find that other's artistic words are so appropriate to how I'm feeling or what I'm going through, that I may as well use their's rather than try and do it myself. :-)


"Surrender don't come natural to me
I'd rather fight You for something
I don't really want
Than to take what You give that I need
And I've beat my head against so many walls
Now I'm falling down, I'm falling on my knees

So hold me Jesus, 'cause I'm shaking like a leaf
You have been King of my glory
Won't You be my Prince of Peace"

"Hold Me Jesus"
~Rich Mullins

I was talking to a friend last night about surrender, and how we often know in our minds and hearts what the best thing may be, but we just can't bring ourselves to surrender. We have to go through it and experience the joy and the pain that comes along in order to really understand. I'm sure that if we just trusted God instead of doing things our own way, we would still end up understanding, but I'm bad at that in some areas of life.

Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way!
 Thou art the potter, I am the clay.
 Mold me and make me after thy will,
 while I am waiting, yielded and still. 

Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way!
 Hold o'er my being absolute sway.
 Fill with thy Spirit till all shall see
 Christ only, always, living in me! 

"Have Thine Own Way, Lord."
~Adelaide Potter

" Who could fill the emptiness inside
Who would ease the pain in my broken heart
Who would come in and abide
Promise never to depart
Without You

And the sun doesn't shine
And my world stops spinnin' round
Without You
Tell me where else could I ever find
The peace that floods this heart of mine
Without You

I can't live without You
I don't want to try to
Live one more moment without You"

"Without you"
~Bid Daddy Weave