Saturday, December 13, 2008

I know that I know that I know...

A few weeks back... I was having a streak of grouchiness... I was very aware of this bad attitude and I kept apologizing to Joey and the kids but then the same bad attitude kept creeping back in...

One morning Joey came down stairs and said, "I think I found something that might encourage your heart and help you to look a little more on the bright side... He had downloaded Jon Foreman's new CD... He put on the very first song and it just blessed my socks off!!!!

It's called Your Love Is Strong...

Music has a way with me... The sound, the rhythm, the melody, the words... They all have this ability to change my mood, my attitude, my outlook towards my day... what I find so tender is that Joey knows that about me, and he went out of his way to encourage me rather than to just be annoyed by the things I was struggling with...

I have been listening to "Your Love Is Strong" constantly...(That's another silly thing about me... when I like a song I kinda listen to it exhaustively.) There's one part of the song that says,

So why do I worry?
Why do I freak out?
God knows what I need
You know what I need

Your love is
Your love is
Your love is strong



And as I listened to it over and over and over again, the words started to sink in... Oh how much the Lord knows my heart... and above that... oh how much He LOVES my heart!!! His love is strong and there is no reason for me to continue on in my grouchiness... So whenever I can feel that my attitude for the day is not reflective of the fact that My Savior in madly in love with me, I have been turning on this song. And God somehow uses it to remind me of his GREAT LOVE for me.

I know that I know that I know, that The Lord loves me... and...
I know that I know that I know, that the Lord loves Joey... and...
I know that I know that I know that Joey loves me!

Here I am in the midst of a season of growth... and once again I find myself feeling grateful...