It's Time

So I've been listening to this band called Imagine Dragons a lot today. I heard a song I liked at a store the other day and wrote down some lyrics so I could look it up later and see who made that lovely music. It ended up being this band and the song called It's Time. And sadly, really I am very sad, I hated the music video! At first it seemed like it was the wrong setting for the type of music they were playing(It was all dark and stormy). It seemed like they should have been playing metal or something heavy. And then it totally goes off in this other direction and they find these glowing bulbs, bury them in the ground, and then they explode and the dude goes flying. Really weird. Maybe I'm missing the artistic side of this or something, but it was disappointing for how much I enjoyed their music. And I can honestly say that I really like every song on their Continued Silence EP, especially one called On Top of the World. It is really quite so lovely.

BUT! after doing a little more searching on youtube, I found this lovely little thing. I think this should be the official music video. It's just awesome. It makes me want to see them live. Yay.




On another note, I've been reading Captivating by John and Stasi Eldredge. It's a truly wonderful book, good for any woman. There is so much good advice, biblical and personal, along with practical applications. A few things have stuck out to me while reading...

"God says that he will thwart our efforts to find life apart from him... He does this in order to wear us out, get us to turn back to him in thirsty longing. Then he begins to woo us. He often takes us aside from every other source of comfort so that he alone can have our heart's attention."

This is scary to me but also so lovely. Frighteningly true because I have experienced this many a time(you'd think I would get the point by now, ha!), and wonderful for the reason why he does it. Because he loves us. Tremendously. To be wooed by God and taken away(for a short time or permanently) from the things we hold too much value in, in order that our heart's will focus on only him. It sucks at times, but I'm grateful. Sometimes I forget the importance, the value, the amazingness of him who has created me.

O something cool that happened today. I had been reading the book and for a while it had been talking about how women are beautiful and we get our beauty(among other things) from the Lord because he is beautiful. Without really knowing it, this had been on my heart, wondering what other specific things I had gotten from the Lord, but I guess not really grasping it all. And all of a sudden he spoke to me, "You are a creature. You were created. You love creating, and so too, do I." This was so special to me! As an artistic person, it's true, I love to create things, and I love what I create. And by God telling me that I was created, and that he loves to create, he was saying that he loved creating me! First off, this just makes my heart glad, that the God of Heaven took pleasure in creating me and making me exactly who I am. And second, I feel like I have a special connection with him. I get my creativity from my creator. He creates all kinds of wonderful things and he has also put that gift in me to do the same thing. How lovely. Just Yay.

And on top of that, there is this:
"Instead of making me into someone else, he is making me more me. And that is one of the beautiful things about him. That the more his we become, the more ourselves we become; more our true selves."
 The more we grow close to him, the more we grow into who we truly are. I just think that's beautiful. Especially for everyone(myself included) that occasionally(or more often than we'd like to admit) wonders who the heck they are, or what kind of person they are meant to be, etc. We need to stop worrying about it! And become more his. Then you will become more you and I will become more me. 

This is how I feel tonight>>>>
"Praise be to to the Lord, for he showed his wonderful love to me."!!! Psalm 31:21 With exclamations at the end :)

And this empowers me whenever I see it. No it's not talking about an actual woman, but o well.>>>
"God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day." Psalm 46:5

Yay.