heridas que hablan de tu inmenso amor...

It's really easy to get so distracted, we forget about God's love. We take our eyes off of the cross, what He did and what it means, and we just truck on through our days as if we're living just for the next big thing. Living for the next big adventure, instead of always dwelling WITH God and in reverence of Him and His love.

This whole idea came to mind as I was listening to an old mixed CD that I had made almost two years ago. There's a song on it that part of it always made me stop whatever I was doing and just sing out to God. These lyrics are from "Worlds Apart" by Jars of Clay.

I look beyond the empty cross, forgetting what my life has cost.
I wipe away the crimson stain, and dull the nails that still remain.
More and more I need you now. I owe you more each passing hour.
The battle between grace and pride, I gave up not so long ago.
So steal my heart and take my pain, Wash my feet and cleanse my pride.
Take the selfish, take the weak, and all the things I cannot hide.
Take the beauty, take my tears, this sin-soaked heart and make it yours,
Take my world apart, take it now, take it now,
And serve the ones that I despise, speak the words I can't deny,
And watch the world I used to know fall to dust and blow away.
I look beyond the empty cross, forgetting what my life has cost.
Wipe away the crimson stains, and dull the nails that still remain.
So steal my heart and take my pain, take the selfish take the weak,
And all the things I cannot hide,
Take the beauty, take my tears, take my world apart.
Take my world apart.
I pray. 

If there were any way that I could make a visual depition of these lyrics, I would want to get it tattooed on my body. So to remember all I would have to do is look down...

He looked at a harlot and saw someone worthy of love.

--Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love, p. 179

becoming a woman of...

"I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ."
(2 Corinthians 11:3)

My best friend Dana and I have done many bible studies over the years to bring us closer to the women that God intends for us to be. We have strived to become women of excellence, faith, and freedom. This week, we are embarking on a new adventure...

Becoming a woman of simplicity.

We are not entirely sure what this will be like, though I am sure we will not be like Quaker women by the end of this 11 week journey. And by no means do we hope to "master" what it means to be a woman of simplicity. In fact, I'm pretty sure I could repeat all of Cynthia Heald's studies for the rest of my life and learn something new every time. But this will be an exciting new quest and I am very much looking forward to how this is going to rock my world.

And it is entirely possible that I will regret that statement a few weeks from now.

Here's to simplicity...