With Arms Wide Open

Maybe you can look at me and see the chasm.  Maybe that brokenness is evident.  Maybe you can see the scar. Maybe you recently met me, and you found it hard to believe that this fledgling woman has already lived an entire life... and she's still just getting started. Maybe you had been walking with me before The Great Divide, and I left you on the other side.  Rest assured, I will come back for you. I believe that the Lord can change a person right where they are.  I believe He does. But I also believe sometimes He does something radical.  Sometimes He does something unbelievable.  Sometimes He makes something so new... something so wholly different... something unrecognizable.  Just.because.He.can.  Just because He heard the cry of people you had never even met that were praying for you... and neither of you even knew it.  I imagine that from the outside looking in... it would be easy to misunderstand it... easy to miss it... Oh, but from the inside looking out. It

This woman stood up in a high school auditorium... and it was like she spilled all of my secret thoughts to six hundred women. She's so chill.  I'm not even kidding.  She let me hug her.   And at the end of this conference that we had in a local school where she spilled all of my secrets and people took off their shoes to give to the homeless and women loaded up canned goods for missions and two foundations took home ALL of the money raised over the weekend to care for orphans here in the U.S. and there in Africa... all I can do is build an altar with the rubble in my heart... and slide my yes card slowly across the table. (face down so my husband can't read it.)  

There's a peace I've come to know Though my heart and flesh may fail You're rich in love, and You're slow to anger Your Name is great, and Your heart is kind I know that You are for me I know that You will never forsake me in my weakness All of my life in every season You are still God I have a reason to sing I have a reason to worship Your love never fails it never gives up It never runs out on me Lord, I'm amazed by you... how You love me In this place of intimacy I surrender all I surrender all Blessing and honor, strength and glory and power be to You, the only Wise King Savior- He can move the mountains My God is mighty to save Sing to the King who is coming to reign Glory to Jesus, the Lamb that was slain All will see how great, how great is our God Our God is greater, our God is stronger God You are higher than any other All of You is more than enough for all of me I am a tree, bending beneath the weight of His wind and mercy The G