Being Reflective

Because we won't be traveling until after the new year begins, my Christmas is bound to be rather reflective. For someone as in love with holiday traditions as I, not being with lots of extended family makes me more melancholy than my choleric normally allows.

I wanted to share a few favorites from tonight's ponderings. Two are what are probably my "life verses" (a term that I'd never heard until a couple of years ago--where I grew up it's just a favorite memory verse).

1 Timothy 4:12
Let no man despise thy youth--but be an example of the believers in speech, life, love, faith & purity.

from Psalm 51 (the Message paraphrase)
...shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life.
...Give me a job teaching rebels your ways
so the lost can find their way home.

Next is what, for lack of a better term, I'll call my "life song." It's a favorite from Shawn McDonald. They raw cry of this song is so powerful to my heart.

Have You Ever
Have you ever wanted to be someone else
Have you ever wanted just to be someone
Have you ever wanted to reach your dreams
Have you ever wanted life to be more than it seems
//
I have tasted of a love so wide
That it stops all my time
I have tasted of a love so deep
That it blows my mind
//
Have you ever wanted to reach up and touch the sky
Have you ever wanted to pack it up and say good-bye
Have you ever wanted someone to care
Have you ever wanted someone to be there
//
He is sweet, He is sweet
What you're looking for
Is my sweet, sweet Jesus
What You're looking for
Is my sweet Lord