encore

what have i in this life
but the love in Your eyes
this empty world
will on day fade
only Your truth will remain

Jesus, all i have is You
You're the hope i'm holding to
i might weep but still my faith
rest in You
as the heavens hold the skies
it's Your hand that holds my life
and Your love will lead me on
when all else is gone


hello november,
i need surrender,
i need to let october die


Lord help me close the semester.
Help me end this year.


Jesus, all i have is You.


I need this year to end. i need rebirth.


and Your love will lead me on,
when all else is gone.


Goodbye 2007.


Hello 2008.
Lord make me a person for whom You are everything,
and for whom You are enough.

enter and be changed

The Great Exchange
His light for our darkness.
His goodness for our sin.
His forgiveness, and mercy for our rebellion.
He transformed my life.
He is still working to transform me
Is He transforming you?
~H. Noelle~




i will keep close to You whatever the darkness.

no matter how painful the road, how dark, how rough, or how long...i must take courage, for the road leads home.

merry Christmas

all i want, Jesus, is more and more to abandon everything to You. the more i go on, the more i realize i don't know where i am going. lead me and take complete control of me.

doce me facere voluntatem tuam quia. deus meus es tu.
teach me to do thy will, for You are my God.



be at rest once more, o my soul,
for the Lord has been good to you.
for you, O Lord, have delivered my soul from death,
my eyes from tears,
my feet from stumbling,
that i may walk before the Lord in the land of the living.
~psalm 116:7-9~



let us be glad and rejoice today, because He has come

all i have

what have i in this life
but the love in Your eyes
this empty world will one day fade
only Your truth will remain

Jesus, all i have is You
You're the hope i'm holding to
i might weep but still my faith
rests in You
as the heavens hold the skies
it's Your hand that holds my life
and Your love will lead me on
when all else is gone

better days

green grass, and i am laying in the sunlight of You,
and the wind is moving through the trees ushering You,
and the better days You bring, the better places found,
feasting at Your table i am overwhelmed,
i lift my glass and drink to Love that never gave up,
clouds pass fading into memories gone,
and all i have to show for life is life and love and peace.
what else could there be?

His voice

i can't see how You're leading me
unless You've led me here
where i'm lost enough
to let myself be led
-rm-

surely He took up our infirmities
and carried our sorrows
-psalm 53:4-

though He slay me,
yet will i hope in Him.
-job 13:15-




in the
early dawn
i hear a voice--
I am with you,
rejoice.