"Following Love"

It's funny how life works isn't it. How one single experience can teach you so many things and spur insight that wouldn't have come any other way. This stepping out of the boat time is sort of like that. It's refining, it's challenging, it's thought provoking, it's clarifying. It's joy and sorrow living in exactly the same moment about exactly the same circumstance. It's realizing that following God doesn't always feel light and easy and we do a disservice to others when we present it as such. Taking up a cross has never been an easy concept and when I get the opportunity to share with someone what that means from now on it will come from a different perspective, a different place. Following Jesus is going to be HARD some days. It's going to go against everything that is natural because it involves being selfless and we have no idea how to do that, selfless doesn't come naturally. You have to work against yourself. It's true that we most often are our own worst enemy. But here's the better part of what I will also know to share from now on. There will be moments in the clenched fists and gritted teeth of walking it out that will absolutely blow your heart away, because they come so unexpectedly and sweep you off your feet. I think it happens because somewhere within your soul you know that you are following love. Not some mystical now it's here and tomorrow it may not be sort of love, but a love that compels you to take up a cross regardless of what's involved because you want to follow this perfect representation of pure true Love wherever He may lead. This knowing deep within your soul that following Him is the most right thing you've ever done. Not by your own merit, by huge buckets of His undeserved favor and grace.

I share with you today the lyrics to a song I hadn't listened to for over a year probably but that I heard the other day with different ears. It represents so much of what my heart feels. May we always follow Love wherever and whatever that may come to mean for each of us.

Follow Love
by Ffh
album: Ready to Fly

I'm gonna miss the simple town full of memories
I'm gonna miss just hanging out with all my friends
The rainy days and summer nights
Skipping stones by the river side
But i know.. its time to go

So heres goodbye heres so long
I must go and follow Love
I feel my heart moving on
I must go and follow Love
Carry on while I'm gone
This is what i've been dreaming of
I miss you so
But i must go, go and follow Love

I've got a heart thats full of dreams
and a little bit of crazy
I can feel it pulling me to somewhere i have never been
I'm packing up and leaving home
To travel into the great unknown
Its time, i have to go

So heres goodbye heres so long
I must go and follow Love
I feel my heart moving on
I must go and follow Love
Carry on while I'm gone
This is what i've been dreaming of
I miss you so
But i must go, go and follow Love

Were not guarranted tomorrow
So we must just keep on living for today
and make the most of every moment
every step along the way...oh

So heres goodbye heres so long
I must go and follow Love
I feel my heart moving on
I must go and follow Love
Carry on while I'm gone
This is what i've been dreaming of
I miss you so
But i must go, go and follow Love
I must go, go and follow Love