My Burden, You Lift!

This is really old - but I found it today and I was comforted by it and reminded of some cool lessons God taught me then... :)

"My Burden, You Lift"

11/11/04

I feel suffocated and pressured
It's hard to breath, hard to move
It's a mountain that is weighing me down

Does everyone feel this way deep inside?
Supressed and feeling the need to die?

When you hung on that cross
Did my burden hurt you?
Is that what it means when they say,
"the weight of the world was on Your shoulders?

I imagine my burden
How it weighs me down
And I think of countless others
Who are hurting and being weighed down

How many of us casting it all on you
Our burdens in reality our sins
Were all thrown upon you

I know what it felt like to carry it
Horrible, painful, and hard
Untill I died and gave it away
My heart leaped and I was free
Never to be supressed or dragged down

I think of how much harder for you
Carrying all our burdens in that cross
My own burden plus thousands more
Made you fall to the ground

You died a death I should have died
You took my burden away
And when you came back to life
Your joy no words could say

I know how light and free I felt
Giving away my burden to you
But you had mine and thousands more
To relinquish and be freed from

I can't imagine the joy in your heart
Being free of the weight of the world
We all should have carried those burdens
But by your grace alone
We can cast them out

Do I feel what God feels?

Is God being impacted by this situation?

And if God is being impacted am I also being impacted?

If God is being impacted by this situation and I am not being impacted what is preventing me from being impacted?

Because if God feels and cares about this situation and I do not, what has become numb in my soul that is preventing me from being impacted by this situation that God feels and is impacted by?

When World's Collide

When World’s Collide
1/6/08

A tiny baby born to un-suspecting parents
Two people aged and changed by the world
One person not yet touched by time and charm
These worlds collide

A shriveled woman on the Indian streets
A girl raised in America, always enough to eat
She's always starved for lack of food
She's starved because she's not "beautiful" enough
These world's collide

A child raised in a loving home
An old man, fought in the war of old
The child gives life and love out of an overflowing heart
Memories of old, how they haunt his soul
These world's collide

A woman diagnosed with cancer
A little girl fighting for her life
The woman gives up and wants to die
The little girl sees each day as a gift to love and try
These world's collide

A city boy raised in the hustle and bustle
A country boy raised by nature itself
The city teaching what are we doing without?
The nature teaching the beauty in what's given us
These world's collide

A baby raised in heaven above
A virgin mother to hold the child
An earthly father accused of sin
A heavenly Father holding them all
These world's collide

An innocent man on the cross
The theif next to him eternally lost
But he believed in His innocent blood
His innocence the greatest act of love
These world's collide

How is it when world's collide
That it can make such waves in your life?
Or rather how could it not make waves
The choice is yours
When worlds collide

Encouragement.

So lately God has blessed me with some huge encouragement that I didn't even realize I needed untill I received it. But I think that's how God works - He knows what we need better than even we do ourselves!

I had a friend call me to check in with me about how I am really doing. The words shared were so life-giving and I felt so loved and didn't even realize how much I needed to hear that. This friend not only encouraged but also challenged me in a few areas that I needed to be challenged in. Not that I hadn't been challenged before but it was a good reminder.

I had another friend send me a big passage of Scripture out of Phillipians to simply encourage me. It spoke to my heart and came at a time where I needed to hear that truth more than anything.

Another huge one has been my sister. I feel like she is my armor-bearer. She is right there with me through-out any trial and beyond that she is there. But when I say she is there it's more than a simple like listening or praying. You can be there without really being "there" if you know what I mean. When she is there for me boy is she there for me. It's an amazing gift that I feel so blessed to have.