None but Jesus.

"In the quiet, in the stillness I know that You are God. In the secret, of Your presence I know there I am RESTORED. When You call I won't refuse. Each new day again I'll choose.  There is no one else for me. None but Jesus. Crucified to set me free. Now I live to bring Him praise.

In the chaos, in the confusion Your Sovereign still. In the moment of my weakness You give me grace to do Your will. So when You call I won't delay. It's my song through all my days. There is no one else for me. None but Jesus. ....

In the quiet, stillness of blue snow, in the calm of a fresh winter snowfall, I find myself questioning, have all my efforts and mission trips, have they all been in VAIN? The precious little girls of India don't get to finish the trip, put on a cute outfit for the fancy plane ride back home to a life of luxury. The children in South Africa don't get to flip a switch and automatically have a grocery store filled with choices to eat. I'm asking myself today what was all that for if I did it to satisfy my hunger for adventure? 

"All my DELIGHT is You Lord, all of my hope, all of my strength." 

A little over six months ago, I married a wonderful man and our GOAL was to have an adventurous first year of marriage and we were going to document it with a daily photo journal. We wanted to get great jobs and move to the bustling city of Minneapolis. I had DREAMS that I wanted fulfilled and now I had a husband to do them with. Tell me my new blogger friend, how have my dreams CHANGED so much in such a short time? We are doing the furthest thing from my "idea of adventure", and yet everyday with Sam is an adventure. 

We walked the woods today in the blue snow, he was running about, clomping in the frozen swamp like a little kid taking photos and I was just standing in the back admiring the man I married. Suddenly I realized everything I thought I wanted was ALL RIGHT HERE. Enjoying the blue snow of God's great earth with my childlike husband. 

Beautiful women.... accessorize yourselves in the DELIGHT of Jesus, in creation, in love. The MORE you delight in Him, the MORE you want to be obedient to what He asks of you. 

Maybe I made mistakes in my life, maybe I lived more selfishly that I know, but today I want to DELIGHT in Jesus and be obedient to what He asks me to do. I may have gone on all my trips in selfish pursuit but today I ask that Jesus would fill me more with Himself so I wouldn't be so selfish. I pray that I am able to SELFLESSLY SEE the needs right in front of me and do whatever I can to meet them.