Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Megan's prayer: Big Daddy Weave's "For Who You Are"

And I praise you, for who you are.

Loving God, praising God, for who He is doesn't seem to be such a challenge to me. It's not like he has made these mistakes that I see and are upset with him about. To me, He seems perfect.

Loving others for who they are sometimes is harder for me. Especially if we don't share the same opinions or ideas. I should love others, no matter what, but it is something that I struggle with.

Lord, please give me the grace and the strength that I need to love others for exactly who they are.

Chris' prayer: Big Daddy Weave's "For Who You Are"

I'm being reminded again, as I was last Monday, to love those around me for who they are. Not who I want them to be. Not who I wish they were. For who they are. This song reminds me to praise God for who He is:
You are the Lord, The Father of lights
You are God the Keeper of my heart

You are the Lover of my soul
You are the Giver of the second start

Erinnicole's Prayer: Big Daddy Weave's "For Who You Are"

Totally, Completely, Entirely

I love this so much. I am a perfectionist, no doubt about it. As such, everything has to be just so. I do not exactly see the world in black and white, per say, but I like to have things either one way or the other. I can see "gray" in situations, but here are examples of what I mean. When I drink water, the glass either has to be full or empty. If I am drinking it, I have to stay next to the faucet to fill it back up after I drink too much so that it will keep its constant level. I hate driving in dusk because I either need the road entirely dark or entirely light. I literally have problems seeing if it is not one or the other. And the strangest one is the color perrywinkle. Which I recently have found a distaste for because perrywinkle as I see it, isn't so much a color as an attempt at three different colors : pink, blue, and purple. I mean, props to those of you who love it, it just goes against my perfectionist ways.
In life, I feel so many uncertainties. I can't always tell who will be there for me and who won't, I don't always know how this evening or tomorrow morning will pan out. Things in this world are shaky and I feel like I almost never have something stable to hold onto because things are constantly changing. I have never thought of God in this way before. I know He is always there, that is common knowledge to me, but I've never considered that He could be my stability in an unstable world. I never really thought of God as a post for me to hold on to. To run to, sure, but to grab and keep hold of, not so much. But reading and listening to these lyrics, that makes complete sense. Not just a little sense or no sense at all, but complete and total sense to me that God should be the one constant in my life. God is who I can depend on always.

Marie's Prayer: Big Daddy Weave's "For Who You Are"

Seems too high for me to reach
To wrap my mind around the mystery
I'm short. This being the case, many things are too High for me to Reach. I like thinking of God this way because it is easier To picture. And being short, I have Learned many ways To make myself a little taller. Likewise, I can make myself Taller in reaching God by praying and Listening and just doing nice things.

Along with being Short, I am a writer. That is why I like the word Mystery. For a character to Be realistic, they have to be Multifaceted. Some of these Characters have so many facets, that it becomes Hard to distinguish which facet of them is the true self. I know that God is 3 persons, so I have to know which person Of God to direct things to. Being a mystery is one of the Things that makes God so amazing.

Catie's prayer: Big Daddy Weave's "For Who You Are"

Seems too high for me to reach

Lately I feel like this. Like I've taken on too much and that everything I have to do is just too incredibly ridiculous for one person to take on. I forget though that with God working with me and through me I can do so much more. I forget that when I work with God instead of trying to fight him, I can do the work and do it that much better because I am working with him.