Night Like Tonight

Oh, but it's nights like tonight

That light up the world,

A half slice of pie is

The moon shining bright

On this girl, who's amazed,

At the journey she's made,

Let's be brave, brave tonight.

The world won't slow down

Yeah it's speeding things up

And your melody is flowing o're

The rim of this cup

Watch it spill on the canvas,

Because the picture is clear

All the wonderful colors

Every season, each year,

Is tonight.

The air's getting warmer,

Blooming into spring

These words are shortcoming

For the tune that I'll bring

It's alright, this

Mutual feeling is tightening

While constricted

I'm singing tonight.

And my heart's playing over the keys,

This piano will burst at the seams

So it seems

Can't you see

By the glow of a white-chocolate moon

That it's soon,

Oh yes, it's so soon tonight.

Three, three in a row

You must know that

I'm laughing,

Grinning at the show,

On a night like tonight.

Love This Life.

I love this life. Not so much the life as in what most people would say (parties, living it up, whatever), but the life that God has blessed me with. It's good and He gave it to me to enjoy. Thank Jesus!

Father, I will enjoy this life. And I will take time to grow myself in you and not worry so much about other people. I will not be selfish, but I will not neglect my own life to try and satisfy someone else's. I will no longer be ashamed when I am happy, or feel guilty if someone isn't appreciative of my decisions if I know they were right. I do not need to fix people or fulfill them because I can't. What I can do is love You, and live in You, and be filled with Your joy despite this world and all the crap it throws at me. Because it's ok. I have You and You are all I need. 

And when I go to Chapel Hill, I'm not going to worry about "saving" people, or saying the right thing, or making the best argument. I'm going to love You. And heck, I'm going to enjoy the college life! It will be wonderful, and good, and beautiful. 

Thank You, Father!

The River [Meredith Andrews]

"Everyone is broken

And in need of a Savior,

So He came and was broken

For the mocker, for the shamed,

Still our eyes are blinded

By the culture, by the lies,

We can't see that we're filthy

We're fallen and so dry....

And He invites us

Can you hear Him say

He invites us

Hear Him call your name

Welcome to the river

Come drink, come wade

Come find your very life

Welcome to the river of God

Where your brokenness is washed

Welcome to this river

Come drink, come wade

Come find your very life. 

Welcome to the river

Where your brokenness is washed away..."

Isaiah 48:18

"If only you had paid attention to my commands, your peace would have been like a river, your righteousness like the waves of the sea." 

Ezekiel 47: 5, 9, 12

"He measured off another thousand, but now it was a river that I could not cross, because the water had risen and was deep enough to swim in— a river that no one could cross... Swarms of living creatures will live wherever the river flows. There will be large numbers of fish, because this water flows there and makes the salt water fresh; so where the river flows everything will live... Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing." 

Revelation 22:1-2

"Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations."