Different

Another song. This has been playing through my head all day. It is called different and it's sung by Jamie Slocum and Mollye Rees.

Different

I have had the right
To stand and fight
Bit it would have still been wrong
I've had the chance to prove
A hurtful truth
I had to let it go and just move on

'Cause there's a gift called grace
That's captured my life
Though the way of the world is power and pride

I want to be different, Jesus
Just like you
I want to be tender with mercy
Guiding all I do
So when others talk about me
Let it be because
I am different
Let the difference be love

Let me have the kind
Of heart that shines
The light and shows you're real
And where hope is dim
And fear sets in
Will you use me Lord to help and heal

I don't want wealth or fame
To define the life I live
Oh let me be known
For what I give

I want to be different, Jesus
Just like you
I want to be tender with mercy
Guiding all I do
So when others talk about me
Let it be because
I am different
Let the difference be love

Every day is a chance to serve You
By caring for someone else
I will make the choice to surrender
And not live for myself

I want to be different, Jesus
Just like you
I want to be tender with mercy
Guiding all I do
So when others talk about me
Let it be because
I am different
Let the difference be love

And you can find the video for Different here.

OK, so my mom and I were talking and she suggested I listen to this song by Point of Grace. I figured instead of making a new post, I'd just add it to this one. Heal the Wound

A quote

I logged onto Facebook this morning to read this quote posted by a friend I used to go to church with. Liked it, so I had to share.
Find the best in everybody...no one is all evil. Everybody has a good side; just keep waiting, it will come out...~ Dr. Randy Pausch

Love Never Fails

OK, so sitting in line, waiting to pick up my oldest from school, I heard this song on the radio. Another one by Brandon Heath - Love Never Fails

Love is not proud
Love does not boast
Love after all
Matters the most

Love does not run
Love does not hide
Love does not keep
Locked inside

Love is the river that flows through
Love never fails you

Love will sustain
Love will provide
Love will not cease
At the end of time

Love will protect
Love always hopes
Love still believes
When you don't

Love is the arms that are holding you
Love never fails you

When my heart won't make a sound
When I can't turn back around
When the sky is falling down
Nothing is greater than this
Greater than this

Love is right here
Love is alive
Love is the way
The truth the life

Love is the river than flows through
Love is the arms that are holding you
Love is the place you will fly to
Love never fails you

Finally Free

I had a friend from high school help me figure out the name of the song and artist that I was searching for all morning. It is Finally Free by Nicole Nordeman.

I looked Finally Free up on Youtube, so I could share it as I felt the music was just as important to this song as the lyrics.

Enjoy!

A couple more songs

OK, I have to admit, I LOVE listening to the radio. I don't watch a lot of TV or anything, but when I'm in the car by myself I love to listen to one of the local Christian stations. I have known these songs I have today for a while, but they played recently and I felt compelled to post the lyrics. There's also a song I heard this morning that I am trying to figure out who sings it and what it's called so I can get the lyrics for it. It's driving me crazy, lol. I have heard it before and loved it, just never caught the name/title.

Avalon - I Don't Want to Go

You changed my world
When You came to me
You drove a passion
In my soul down deep
Lord, to follow You in everything

I don't want to go somewhere
If I know that You're not there
'Cause I know that me without You is a lie
And I don't want to walk that road
Be a million miles from home
'Cause my heart needs to be where You are
So I don't want to go

So come whatever
I'll stick with You
I'll walk, You'll lead me
Call me crazy or a fool
For forever I promise you that...

repeat chorus

Without Your touch
Without Your love
Filling me like an ocean
For Your grace is enough
Enough for me
To never want to go somewhere
If I know that You're not there

repeat chorus

Casting Crowns - East to West

Here I am Lord and I'm drowning
In your sea of forgetfulness
The chains of yesterday surround me
I yearn for peace and rest
I don't want to end up where you found me
And it echoes in my mind
Keeps me awake tonight

I know you've cast my sins as far
As the East is from the West
And I stand before you now
As though I've never sinned but today
I feel like I'm just one mistake away
From you leaving me this way

Chorus:
Jesus can you show me
Just how far the East is from the West
Cause I can't bear to see the man I've been
Come rising up in me again
In the arms of your mercy I find rest
Cause you know just how far the East is from the West
From one scarred hand to the other

I start the day the war begins
Endless reminding of my sin
Time and time again
Your truth Is drowned out by the storm I'm in
Today I feel like I'm just one mistake away
From you leaving me this way

[Chorus]

I know you've washed me white
Turned my darkness into light
I need your peace to get me through
To get me through this night
I can't live by what I feel
But by the truth your word reveals
I'm not holding on to you
But your holding on to me
Your holding on to me

Jesus, you know just how far
The East is from the West
I don't have to see the man I've been
Come rising up in me again
In the arms of your mercy I find rest
(The arms of your mercy I find rest)
Cause you know just how far the East is from the West
From one scarred hand to the other (times 2)

(Just how far, the East is from the West) (time 3)

From one scarred hand to the other