Often it is in the hardest and darkest moments that we are gifted with something we are so undeserving of. He gives you the grace to embrace the storm. The strength to withstand the wind. And the love to endure another season …
“And don’t be wishing you were someplace else
or with someone else.
Where you are right now is God’s place for you.
Live and obey and love and believe right there…”
- 1 Corinthians 7:17 (The Message)
Untitled
I search for hope in the sunrise
But I’m left waiting until the sunset
Does the fight get any easier?
Will the waves ever stop crashing?
..
But I’ll live in this lifeless season
I’ll obey even in the struggle
I’ll love until I run dry
If it means, I get to be where you are ..
Where you are, Where you are ..
..
Lighter load and easy avenues
Smoother roads and brighter days
But I sink my feet deeper in the sand
Aware that I’m choosing harder ground
..
But I’ll live in this lifeless season
I’ll obey even in the struggle
I’ll love until I run dry
If it means, I get to be where you are ..
Where you are, Where you are ..
- unknown.
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June 22, 2010 at 11:27 pm
anonymous
Now, if “uncategorised”, “untittled” and “unknown” is ways of just not wanting to claim responsibility for your own words, that’s a little sad; be brave, it sounds like an amazing song. I didn’t know you were a singer/songwriter.
Reminds me of a message preached by one of the women’s conference speakers, about how she looked back at the journals from her life, and realised she had been sleeping through it all. Every season of her life would have words like “I can’t wait till im…” grownup/married/career~ always wishing somewhere else, instead of embracing the now. Precisely what you’re talking about here. \
‘maselang!’
-Johan
June 22, 2010 at 11:54 pm
Nikki
How could you think I wrote that song? Unknown simply means unknown!
hmm alright, you caught me. I did write it. They’re just lyrics scribbled on the back of my moleskine while chilling at gjs one time. Still need to polish it on guitar. So no songwriter here.
Its the melancholic in me, trying to avoid attention (not that it would gain any)
Yes that’s exactly my point. I didn’t want to spend my time wishing I was doing something else or was someone else. I am what I am, because that’s his purpose. I do what I do because that is what He needs of me. I am where I am, because that is where He has placed my influence. Aspiring and dreaming about the future isn’t bad, but we must not let that deter us from living and serving in the now.
I guess this kind of ties up with another post I wrote way back, titled “The Meeting Place”
*contemplates whether I should take your advice and change ‘unknown’*
see what you’ve done Johan!