In You

When my heart is growing weary,
I will come to You.
And when my joy has been forsaken,
I will come to You.


My soul is longing to find Your peace.
Lord, I just need to rest...


...in You.
Every heart can find it's healing
In You.
Every life is given meaning,
Our hope is found, and love abounds 
In You.


When the weight of my sin is on me,
I will come to You.
And when my spirit has been defeated, 
I will come to You.


Though I'm covered in guilt and shame,
Your grace comes alive...

....in You.

Every heart can find it's healing

In You.

Every life is given meaning,

Our hope is found, and love abounds 

In You.

Oh, my heart rejoices
When I hear You say
Yes, my heart rejoices
When I hear You say...


"Come all you who are heavy laden,
And I will give you rest.
Come all you who are heavy laden,
And I will give you rest.

Come all you who are heavy laden,

And I will give you rest.

Come all you who are heavy laden,

And I will give you rest."

...in You.

Every heart can find it's healing

In You.

Every life is given meaning,

Our hope is found, and love abounds 

In You.

Every heart can find it's healing

In You.

Every life is given meaning,

Our hope is found, and love abounds 

In You.

Our hope is found, and love abounds 

In You.

-- "In You" by Dave Hunt

Prayer... because they're still hard for me unless I'm writing and typing is faster...

Lord, 

I want my life to be different.

I feel so different.

It's well after 1:00 on a Saturday night, and I haven't done the first bit of schoolwork this weekend. I've spent time with friends. I've spent time with family. I've read and researched. I've had fits of fervor. I've talked, hand-written, and typed thousands of words this evening since I got home at 9:30, and I just don't want to stop.

My topics have gone back and forth, from my husband to the state of education and finally to You... it isn't difficult to see what occupies my heart, huh?

Lord, I want You to be the first and foremost. I want to be hungry for Your Word. Hungry for words and Your Spirit in prayer, hungry for the call You have for me, hungry for a new life, a life lived serving You in "the least of these."

I'm starting to get tired after hours of being tense with excitement in talking, reading, learning, writing, thinking, and it is such a deep down feeling of wonderful exhaustion.

Lord, this is the me that I have missed-- caring about ideas, expressing them, reading, thinking...

God, I have buried myself. Buried myself under my own expectations and disappointments and confusion.

Trite as it is, it's true just the same-- I've been a Martha. Rushing, running, trying to do. And when I'm not doing, I'm doing things that cover up the thinking, crashing in sleep or escapism, being depressed... but, Lord, I want to be Mary. Learning from You, honoring You.

My uncle sent a text to me one morning at the beginning of school. He was praying for Your love to flow through me to my students and just wanted to let me know. How beautiful. Lord, give me faith in Your love. Give me fervor and passion and connection to You so that I am filled to let the living water flow in my classroom, in my volunteering, in my relationships with my family, in my relationships with my co-workers and my friends.

Help me love You.

Help me stay alive inside with You living in me.

Make this stay, Lord. Make this last. Make this grow. Make this Yours.

Take away my desire to attain for me. Take away my desire to do for others so that I might attain a feeling of self-worth.

Help me to love people because I love You and  You love them so I love them.

Change me. Make me new.