Cry out to Jesus

"And to all of the people with burdens and pains. Keeping you back from your life. You believe that there's nothing and there is no one, Who can make it right. There is hope for the helpless, Rest for the weary, Love for the broken heart, There is grace and forgiveness, Mercy and healing, He'll meet you wherever you areCry out to Jesus, Cry out to Jesus"

As I sit and read these words its only a portion of the lyrics to this song. Somehow today it's where I'm at. I'm (like everyone else at some point) one with burdens and pains. Burden of being jobless and while I'm working a temporary job feeling that it will soon end and I will once again have to rely on unemployment. Burdens because issues arising with your health can't be resolved because of no money coming in because of unemployment. Pain that isn't just physical aches and pains which I have thanks to being fat (trust me I've been trying to do something about that) and pains from my feet from old basketball injuries and just being clumsy. It's dealing with pain that is much farther into my personal life than I want to dive right now but maybe one day!

So I sit and today in particular two things happened with two different people and while I'm happy for them at the same time I think when's it gonna be my turn. I know ya'll aren't human you don't ever think those thoughts, do you?

So told when I'm feeling hopeless and helpless and weary and broken hearted. I'm just looking up and crying out to Jesus. While others seem to have it together I'll just be honest and say without God I don't have anything and so I sit here and yes internally but also physically and to the outside I sit and I CRY OUT TO JESUS!

Soothing the soul....

WOW! It's so true the saying I've heard for years that music soothes the savage beast! It amazes me how God works through music, things I always find soothing to the soul. Yesterday at church I was privy to be able to sing on the praise team, which is something I haven't done since changing churches, which was totally a thing not by choice, but something maybe I'll be able to talk about later. In any case, the praise team song last night was "I exalt thee", the words are so simple and they roll off the tounge so smooth, "I exalt thee, I exalt thee, I exalt thee, oh Lord!" the songs that had been sang prior to the praise team coming to sing had all been about having a thankful heart, and how heaven is so close, and as we began to sing I exalt thee, the first part of the verse says for thou oh Lord art high above the earth, I began to think about this and a beautiful time of worship which was already going on in our service seemed to become charged even more with just simple words, exaltation to the Lord, our Reedemer. A song that in these days when so many have a "troubled soul" it becomes like a soothing ointment on a wound, when physically you can't see the pain that a person is in - the words to a song or the words of a friend can be so soothing and do more healing in a moment than one will ever know. I exalt thee oh Lord - your high above the Heavens, you are our Reedemer, you rule and you reign, and though our trials may be great here on this earth, they are nothing compared to what you endured on the cross to take away our sins! So simply today, I hope you will join me, and just Exalt Him! He is worthy of all exaltation!


Trish