Love Dare......

Today is a very special day and i thought I should  write about a subject that's been on my heart the whole day, 'LOVE'. I watched the movie Fireproof again today and its just amazing what a fresh take I had on it. If you haven't watched it i recommend it as a must watch. The movie deals on unconditional love and has a really new perspective to it. There is one scene that remains etched in my mind when the father is talking to his son. He tells him that the reason he can't love her unconditionally is because he couldn't give her what he didn't have, which was unconditional love from Jesus. Maybe you are a christian reading this and thinking, I've already done it. But have you experienced Jesus unconditional love or you just know him as your saviour. Maybe you've been asking yourself why you've been so judgmental and short tempered with the people you love the most, I know i have. Maybe its time we've looked at scripture's like John 3:16 and 1 John 4:19 with a different perspective and truly receive Christ's love. For when we have experienced the purest of LOVE we can be able to love unconditionally. Just thought I would leave you with lyrics from a song by Warren Barfield, it sums up what I've been writing about

Love is Not a Fight

Love is not a place
to come and go as we please
It's a house we enter in
then commit to never leave

So lock the door behind you
Throw away the key
Work it out together
Let it bring us to our knees

Love is a shelter
in a raging storm
Love is peace
in the middle of a war
And if we try to leave;
May God send angels to guard the door
No, Love is not a fight
but its something worth fighting for

To some love is a word
that they can fall into.
But when they're falling out
keeping that word is hard to do

Love will come to save us
If we'll only call
He will ask nothing from us
but demand we give our all

 

Love, peace and happiness 

Tau

Only one set....

Woke up this morning and started rifling through all my stuff. I came across my diary from last year and it contained all the songs I had written in 2009. One particular song stood out for me and i thought i would share it with you guys today:

Job's Hymn

God of compassion, God of grace

What you have given, now you take

So take this cup of suffering

From our broken lives

Let not our will, but yours be done

Spirit of blessing, come we pray

For the hailstorm commeth again

We have not strength to face alone

The troubles of this world

Let not our will, but yours be done

Father of love, none can compare

Of your goodness we will sing

When the trial you set infront of us

Begin to overwhelm

Let not our will, but yours be done

When I worte this song I didnt realise what it meant, but I feel that he was preparing me for such a time as this. I hope it helps you find comfort and peace and know he is in control. For as it says in his word "... You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies..." Psalm 23v 5.

Love, peace and happiness.

Tau

God of the Dance....

Had a very interesting morning today, went to watch a movement exam for performance arts students. So amazing seeing all the different performances that came out. With some potraying a lovers' spat, others a story of a mother and child. Others the path from hatred to forgiveness. But I think the most interesting of all were the words spoken by the lecturer at the beginning. He explained that the perfomances we were going to see were not stories people came up with and then dances ensued. It was more of dances and the way people expressed the dance routine told a story.

I think its like that with God and our lives, he gives us a blank routine and says dance.  Just looking at those students today started me thinking on my own dance. How people have perceived it so far, was I getting across the message I wanted to. I guess its given me a whole different perspective to my life. Gives new meaning to the verse, "... you are the salt of the earth." The purpose of salt is just not for enrichment, but its there to preserve. The church, you and me, we are ".. the hope of the nations", and it all starts with our dance.

Maybe you are like me, you forget that the world is a stage and whatever is in our hearts will flow to our limbs and to our routine. Whats in your heart today, is it a career, a lover, a position or is it JESUS. Sometimes we are forgetting who we are dancing for. Lets remember who god is in our lives. Was listening to a song called By Your Side by Tenth Avenue North and just the following line sums up for me what God says to us when we start dancing for the wrong audience:

 

Why are you looking for love
Why are you still searching as if I'm not enough
To where will you go child
Tell me where will you run
To where will you run

Love peace and happiness

Tau