FRIDAY, April 16, 2010

ANNIE’S SONG (Travis Cottrell)

You fill up my senses
Like a night in the forest
Like the mountains in springtime,
Like a walk in the rain
Like a storm in the desert,
Like a sleepy blue ocean
You fill up my senses,
Come fill me again.
Come let me love you,
Let me give my life to you
Let me drown in your laughter,
Let me die in your arms
Let me lay down beside you,
Let me always be with you
Come let me love you,
Come love me again.
You fill up my senses
Like a night in the forest
Like the mountains in springtime,
Like a walk in the rain
Like a storm in the desert,
Like a sleepy blue ocean
You fill up my senses,
Come fill me again.

This is the day that the Lord has made and I WILL TO rejoice and be glad in it.  I now remember this song.  It was written as a secular song by John Denver.  It wasn’t written to be about the Lord, but it relates so well to the Lord.  You fill up my senses, come fill me again.  You, Oh Lord, are the essence of my life.  Even though there are so many minutes in the day filled with the “stuff” of life, You are ever present in my life.  How can I be even more keenly aware of Your presence in my life?  I remember a friend of mine that used to take “power naps”.  She would be visiting me and out of the blue ask if I minded if she took a little “power nap”.  She was extremely healthy and fit.  I thought this a little strange, but I had to look at the end result and apparently she was so aware of her body’s needs that she thought this was necessary for her health.  Remind me today of her Lord and I will take “power breaks” with You as I need to.  I want to be fit at the end of the day as I am fit in the early morning.

I read something in the middle of the night that encouraged me and I thought it might encourage my friends as well this morning.  Joel Osteen says, “Have you ever tried to drive a car forward while looking only in the rearview mirror?  You can’t do that and make good progress.  The same is true in life.  You can’t move ahead to the good if you are always looking back at the bad.”  I remembered another friend of mine that had lost his driver’s license because of DUI and he once told me that he would feel so free one day when he could drive his car without looking in the rearview mirror to make sure the police weren’t going to catch him driving without a license.  This morning thinking about that, it reminds me of the “Gotcha” mentality.  The enemy always does the “gotcha” thing.  God says, Forgiven, the enemy says “gotcha”.

Yesterday is gone, today is here.  It is a glorious, powerful day.  A gift that has been given to us.  A day to live in victory, forgetting those things in the past and pressing toward the prize that is set before us.  Jesus.  I will never again have this opportunity of today.  I have been “gotchaed” by a loving, kind, Father that draws us to repentance and says the ticket for our sins has been paid.  I will never be the same again.  I can drive the car of “life” looking forward to the exciting journey.  I will make the miles that I have been given.  I will lift high the Name of Jesus Christ.  I WILL TO take “power naps” as I pull my car over on the side of the road and then continue my journey.  I am SO EXCITED THAT I WAS CHOSEN.  Thank you for my “day” with my little princess and the weekend with my loving, kind husband and friends.  Today I am

Speechless and amazed,

Mary Ann