You know those times when you walk into an aisle at Walmart or Target or wherever and every toy or singing thing is pressed and it’s so freaking annoying?

… You’re welcome.

When you wish upon a falling star, your dreams can come true. Unless it’s really a meteorite hurtling to earth, which will destroy life. Then you’re pretty much hosed no matter what you wish for unless it’s death by meteorite.

~Random Poster in our prayer room~

Below this are some lyrics from different songs that have really been speaking to me.

I feel like right now, everything around me, everything I love, everything that is important to me is being attacked. Every time I pick up the phone or walk out of my room it is something new. Something more painful than the last. I feel like the world around me is crumbling and there’s nothing I can do. I can’t fix it. On top of that God is asking me to do things that are hard, and that are breaking me, and honestly sometimes I just do not understand.

A big part of me wants to give up, I want to go home, throw in the towel. I have nothing left. But through it all God has been showing me that I need to place my trust in Him. I’m not going to understand everything, but my God is faithful and He is mighty to save.

I believe he is bringing me to a complete place of brokenness before him, so that I have nothing but him. God wants all of me, but I hold on so tightly to some things, wanting to do it in my own strength. I want control and to handle everything. I want to plant my feet and try to hold everything together. But I just can’t anymore. I’m not supposed to.

Even if I lose all I hold dear. Even if my world tumbles around me. Even if I am left alone by those I love. My God is always there and he will hold my hand and bring me through. Because he loves me, and did not bring me to this desert to abandon me.

So take me as You find me
All my fears and failures
Fill my life again
I give my life to follow
Everything I believe in
Now I surrender

My Savior
He can move the mountains
My God is Mighty to save
He is Mighty to save
Forever
Author of salvation
He rose and conquered the grave
Jesus conquered the grave

~Mighty to Save

God above all my hopes and fears
And I don’t care what the world throws at me now
I’m gonna be alright

Cause I know my God saved the day
And I know His word never fails
And I know my God made a war for me
Salvation is here
~Salvation is here

You are the source of the life
I can’t be left behind
No one else will do
I will take hold of you

I need You Jesus
To come to my rescue
Where else can I go
There’s no other name by
Which I am saved
Capture me with grace
I will follow you

This world has nothing for me
I will follow You
This world has nothing for me
I will follow You

~Rescue

I’m pressed but not crushed persecuted not abandoned
Struck down but not destroyed
I’m blessed beyond the curse for his promise will endure
And his joy’s gonna be my strength

Though the sorrow may last for the night
His joy comes with the morning

~Trading my sorrows