Oh boy

Alright then, hear we go. I'm going to shake things up and make them a bit more interesting with this here blog. I hope you all approve, are inspired, even question me, and most of all---enjoy!

And now for your viewing pleasure: my boyfriend Mike and I singing "God Will Make A Way" in his church on the island of Roatan (Honduras). Sorry we are so little, but the sound is pretty good. You be the judge.




Well, now after listening to it once more for myself I think that this song, in its quiet simplicity, expresses a beautiful promise. In that promise there is complete and utter rest and oh...it's the kind of rest that you think you might just actually float away (or at least defy gravity) on that promise. God will make a way. Yes, He will.

Not that most people do, but I didn't really have any goals planned out to have achieved by the time I was 24 (which will happen in just 13 days). I might have had the least bit of hope of a goal in the back of my mind to be making my way on having my own family if it was the Lord's will for me to even have a family which I did question...but I guess you could say that I am actually making pretty good progress with my goals then, ha. But I never expected life to be what it is at this moment. What the crap has God gotten me into? You could say it's all my fault for listening to Him, but then who else could I trust my life with, really? No offense, but I definitely wouldn't trust any of you reading this right now with MY precious life. No thank you, you selfish people...just kidd...nope not kidding at all. ha.

I was talking with a good friend yesterday and we were both just laughing at ourselves/each other for the choices we are making in life (in that I-can't-believe-I'm-actually-doing-this-what-kind-of-idiot-am-I? kind of way while KNOWING that we can't do anything but succeed even though the future doesn't always look promising). What the crap do we think we are doing? Am I doing? Sometimes I wonder if God had me sign up for missionary while I was blindfolded or distracted, the way the failing kid always does with his parent on all the family sitcom shows. That trickster. Ah, but don't you know He ALWAYS knows best and He ALWAYS provides the way.

Yes, God will make a way. But then there is that line that comes after about God working in ways we cannot see. That's where the patience comes in and where God uses His wisely secretive ways to build my character and faith in Him, because though I can't SEE where my life is headed, when I get there I always find out He's prepared things perfectly. But it's still hard sometimes, as it should and will be. Let joy be my strength, good thing my joy is in His promises and not anything that isn't so certain.

So I hope that in some small way you can hear this song again and be reminded of God's promises to you. It is a good reminder for me, particularly where I am in life right now.

Here are the complete lyrics: (at least the way I learned it)

God will make a way
Where there seems to be no way
He works in ways we cannot see
He will make a way for me

He will be my guide
Hold me closely to His side
With love and strength for each new day
He will make a way
He will make a way

On the roadway in the wilderness He'll lead me
And rivers in the desert will I see
Heaven and earth will fade
But His word will still remain
He will do something new today

God will make a way
Where there seems to be no way
He works in ways we cannot see
He will make a way for me

He will be my guide
Hold me closely to His side
With love and strength for each new day
He will make a way
He will make a way