Love Is Waiting

 This song speaks volumes to me....I get 2 different yet similar meanings from the words "Love is Waiting". The first being that I am "saving" my love to give to whoever it is that God has intended me to be with. The second is that Waiting is a definition of love. I am showing my future husband that I love him by my Waiting.That's what love does...It Waits. I have listened to this song a hundred times over the last few years. It is still ministering to me and encouraging me.

Let none that wait on the Lord ever be put to shame.

This is where I am... <3 Sharon

p.s. I highlighted my favorite lines. She is such a brilliant writer.


Here are the Lyrics:

In the autumn on the ground, between the traffic and the ordinary sounds
I am thinking signs and seasons while a north wind blows through
i watch as lovers pass me by
Walking stories - whos and hows and whys
Musing lazily on love
Pondering you
I'll give it time, give it space and be still for a spell
When it's time to walk that way we wana walk it well

[CHORUS]
I'll be waiting for you baby
I'll be holding back the darkest night
Love is waiting til we're ready, til it's right
Love is waiting

It's my caution not the cold
there's no other hand that i would rather hold
the climate changes, im singing for the strangers about you
dont keep time, slow the pace
Honey hold on if you can
the bets are getting surer now that you're my man

I could right a million songs about the way you say my name
I could live a lifetime with you and then do it all again
and like I can't force the sun to rise or hasten summer's start,
neither should I rush my way into your heart

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Called to the Nations

In the Summer, I will be going on my first mission trip. I, along with Staff and Juniors and Seniors at Lafayette Christian School, will be traveling to the country of Honduras. I am very excited. God made the way for me to go on this trip and I believe he has a special purpose in store for me...

I feel like It will be the beginning of my adult ministry to the nations. God has called me to be a worship leader. He has gifted me with an anointing that only He can give and that humbles me every time I open my mouth to sing. I know that my voice has been given to me by God to be used for HIS GLORY ALONE. My one desire is to sing TO Him and FOR Him for as long as I live. I believe that part of God's plan for me is serving with a worship team to impact this generation and the next and traveling to wherever God may lead to spread the gospel.

I am coming to an understanding now that the dreams that God has placed in my heart that simply seem impossible, are the ones that I need to not be afraid to go after anymore. After all, God put them there. They aren't silly! They are divinely possible!! I have surrendered all control of my life to him...I work at this everyday. My prayer is that He will have His way! All I desire is to Please Him!

So as I go to Honduras in the summer, I ask that God would give me more of an understanding of what He has called me to do. I will be leading spanish worship songs at a church. I am so excited!! Im my heart I really don't believe this is just another mission trip. I'm looking for the Lord to change me...and He already is! Other ways we will be serving are in an orphanage, teaching english in a school, and cooking food for a village. I am so thankful that God has made the way for me to go! I can't wait!

Help Me See..

Have you ever thought you knew for sure what God was doing and wanted to happen in your life? It seemed so clear because You weren't doing anything and that He was making it all happen? All you were doing was waiting on Him and pleading for him to have his way and as you waited you saw prayers answered right before your very eyes? The posture of your heart was one of surrender and submission? All you wanted was for him to be pleased and knew for sure that he was blessing you for your obedience in waiting on him and letting him work?

I am finding that when It seems like I think I know what God is doing, I need to take a step back and make sure my expectations are not on what I know, but just simply on ...God Himself. Every time I start to feel like I understand, God throws in another variable to my life that makes me question what He is doing....because I thought I had finally figured it out.

But His ways are not my ways. And His thoughts certainly are not mine. But they are being conformed to his little by little, day by day. I need so much more wisdom and understanding of Who he is. Our God is unsearchable and to quote a song by Misty Edwards, "I will waste my life. I'll be tested and tried with no regrets inside of me just to find I'm at Your Feet."

Here is song I wrote a few days ago that these thoughts inspired:

Help Me

Verse 1:
In the midst of this rollercoaster
How can I believe
That you are in Control
And that you’ll never leave
Because I feel that you have left me
Left me all alone
My heart feels so far from you
I can’t stand this anymore

Verse 2:
This test  just seems too hard to bear
How can this be your plan
This all just seems so unfair
How can I understand
But somewhere deep in my heart
I know that you are there
Causing me to want you
And to cry out in deperate prayer

Chorus:
Help me to see through your eyes
Save me from the lies
Oh Help me to understand
Help me to hear with your ears
Cast out all my fear
Oh Take me in Your hands

Bridge:
Your ways are Higher than mine
Your thoughts are so unlike mine
You are God eternal
 Lord Immortal
You are everything
More than all I need