A Sweet Treat: My Children and Brooke Fraser

I have to share this song with you.  My friend Natalie met me after class on Tuesday to give me a treat.  Usually my after school treats consist of a chocolate chip cookie or some kind of sweet treat, but not on Tuesday.  She gave me a Lent devotional book, "My Children", that a man from our church wrote for his three children.  I am starting it tonight!!  Along with this sweet devotional, she gave me Brooke Fraser's CD.  You may have heard her song "Shadowfeet" on a Christian radio station lately.  I love that song, but I also love the other songs that are on her album.  My favorite song is called "Faithful." Here are the lyrics...

 

There's distance in the air and I cannot make it leave

I wave my arms' round about me and blow with all my might

I cannot sense you close, though I know you're always here

But the comfort of you near is what I long for

When I can't feel you, I have learned to reach out just the same

When I can't hear you, I know you still hear every word I pray

And I want you more than I want to live another day

And as I wait for you maybe I'm made more faithful

All the folly of the past, though I know it is undone

I still feel guilty one, still trying to make it right

So I whisper soft your name, let it roll around my tongue,

Knowing you're the only one who knows me

You know me

When I can't feel you, I have learned to reach out just the same

When I can't hear you, I know you still hear every word I pray

And I want you more than I want to live another day

And as I wait for you maybe I'm made more faithful

Show me how I should live this

Show me where I should walk

I count this world as loss to me

You are all I want

You are all I want

This song meets me and hopefully you no matter where you are in life.  It's a song that is real and full of truth about how sometimes we are in a place where we can't feel or hear the Lord and that is ok as long as we are faithful to pray continually and reach out for His hand to guide us, and He will on His divine timeline.  It encourages me in my faith to sincerely say and genuinely believe that "you are all I want."  One thing that has been hard for me in this season of growing up and finding my way is surrendering my plans to Jesus.  So, I also pray for Him to "show me how I should live and show me where I should walk."  My favorite promise is that through all of this "stuff" our faith will be strengthened, and we will be all the more closer to our Heavenly Father.  That is a gift.  All these thoughts are a little jumbled, but I hope you can listen to this song and be encouraged as much as I am!  Enjoy!