Thoughts Laced With Song....

...or maybe it's the other way around....

And I'll be by your side
Wherever you fall
In the dead of night
Whenever you call
And please don't fight
These hands that are holding you

My hands are holding you

~By Your Side, Tenth Avenue North

I'm sitting in the math major's lounge at school listing to one of my playlists on youtube, and reading different devotionals online. It's good stuff. And then I wandered by my friend Nathan's blog. It was just good. He's right. There's such a different in being where you experience joy and where you're simply existing or fighting to keep your existence. Last semester was certainly a bleary semester. I've certainly experienced God's joy this semester. I know it has to do with obedience and I hope for obedience in all things.

I will sing of Your mercy
Which leads through valleys of sorrow
To rivers of joy.

~ The Valley Song, Jars of Clay

Papa, thank You for Your mercies. Thank You for Your joy. I have been very hungry. Thank You for feeding me. Thank You for giving me water to drink. Thank you for restoring the song to my heart. I don't want to walk away from this. I love You. I want to stay right in the middle of Your will for all of my days.

It's the Voice that whispers my name
It's the kiss without any shame
Something beautiful

It's the child on her wedding day
It's the dad who gives her away
Something Beautiful

When we laugh so hard we cry
Oh the love between You and I
Something Beautiful


~Something Beautiful, Newsboys

So tell me all your dreams
Tell me all your fears and what you're longing for the most
It's not another way that'll end up the same for it's under my control

Do you feel the winds of change
Soon this weight will fall away
And take you to a place
Only found through these winds of change

A breeze that's new and free
New and free

I'll be the one who you can cry to
The one who will give you wings
I will give wings

~Winds of Change, Kutless