Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Yet another incredible talent of Caroline's revealed...
Caroline--I LOVED it :) You have so many beautiful talents to share with the world, and I can't wait to see what you come up with next! I love your beautiful medley/melody :) ---I'd say you are onto something!
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
umm ok so i couldn't figure out how to comment
Just so I can cover my basis, I am not sure if what I did was illegal or not, haha yikes But the songs I used were: Closer by Warren Barfield Beyond These Walls by Warren Barfield Hope Now by Addison Road Never Alone by Meredith Andrews Love is worth FIghting For by Warren Barfield More than You'll Ever know by Watermark
I've missed you all!!
Hello Everyone!!
I have missed all of you dearly, and I sit here in the car just jammin away I thought id share with ya'll what ive been doing for the past hour or so. I only share this with ya'll because 1) I know you will only make fun of me a little bit 2) you know these songs 3)you know how much i love to write things just about anything for that matter
Before you can begin you need to know that I once again have messed up the spelling and connotation of words and that is how this began. All of us are familiar with Moulin Rouge, in that movie there is a song called "Elephant Love Medley". Here they composed a song, by using about 12 different parts of different songs. I thought it was so cool, and well I've always wanted to do that. So in high school I did, and then again I did it today, however until today I thought that word was "Melody". Melody and Medley definitely mean two different things.
As I sat here in the car and listened to my usual playlist of songs, one of which is the Miley Cyrus song When I look at you (thank you MM for that one) she says,
“Everybody needs inspiration, everybody needs a song. A beautiful melody when the nights so long cause there is no guarantee that this life is easy. When the world is falling apart. When there is no light to break in the dark. That’s when I look at you.”
Ok so first of all I agreed with her, but I also at the time was thinking melody and medley meant the same thing, hope you are still following. So I decided I was going to write a "Melody" haha but really its a medley anyways its to God. Crazy I know, but I always have these bits and pieces of songs that I love and wish I could put together so I did and well I hope
Warren Barfield, Addison Road, and Meredith Andrews won't mind, because I used those lyrics----keep in mind too that this song clearly has no tune, and well you just kind of read it like a poem or short story or something I don't know.
here goes nothing--Caroline's Medley inspired by Miley's need for a beautiful melody
(things in quotes are still from songs, but I imagine thats what God would say back :-)
I searched for love
When the night came and closed in
I was alone but you found me
And now I’ll never ever be the same
“My Love I’ve never left your side.”
In this beautiful broken world
We laugh and then we cry
There is no reason, you know why, there is no rhyme
All I have is you
Chorus
You are always by my side
Your love is the one thing I can’t run out of
Your love is a shelter in a raging storm
Your love is a peace in the middle of a war
Love is not a fight but
Your love is worth fighting for
Chorus
You are always by my side
Your love is one thing I can’t run out of
If everything comes down to love
Then just what am I afraid of?
Everything rides on Hope
Everything rides on Faith
Livin in this beautiful broken world with you
I have come to understand the worth of a friend
Dear friend you have spoken the truth over my life
and they will never know what it means to me
Chorus
You are always by my side
Your love is the one thing I can’t run out of
Let your heart be my eyes
My vain ambitions die
Because I’m living for something more
You’ve become my hearts desire
And I will sing your praises
Because your love has set me free
Chorus
You are always by my side
Your love is the one thing I can’t run out of
“My love I’ve never left your side.
You are not alone."
So there it is haha not going to top any charts seeing as how I used other people's lyrics, but I like their's better than my own anyways, but it was really fun, and I thought you all would get a kick out of my mistake and at the randomness of writing a "medley"
Love you all and can't wait to see you soon!!!
Caroline
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Tired of Waiting on God
Hey girls! I hope you are having a wonderful "Almost There" Day (as Adrienne so eloquently put it). Sallie sent me this devo this morning and it really hit home with me right now in my life...and I think it can apply to all kinds of aspects in our lives right now...just thought I would share! Love yall!
Tired of Waiting on God 24 Mar 2010Tracie Miles
"Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them." Genesis 25:26a (NIV)
Do you ever get tired of waiting on God to answer your prayers? Recently, I began to feel a sense of frustration with the wait, and also a little bit tired.
Tired of saying the same old prayer day after day, month after month, year after year. Tired of telling God about the same old problems that were still going on. Tired of hearing myself pray about the same old problems, leading me to wonder if God was as tired of hearing my prayer requests as I was of praying them.
So I bowed my head and admitted to God that I was simply tired of the wait.
In a heavy state of emotional tiredness, I turned to the crisp, white pages of my Bible. I was hoping God would il luminate a few verses that would jump out of the book and straight into my heart.
I began reading about when Isaac's wife Rebekah gave birth to twin sons. One particular sentence caught my eye and I went back to read it again and again. My heart leapt as I realized God was using this one little sentence to speak hope into my spirit. He used His spiritual highlighter just as I had wanted.
Genesis 25:26 tells us that Isaac was sixty years old when his twins were born; a simple Bible fact, yet profoundly meaningful to me on this specific day. You see, Isaac had been patient for the Lord to provide the perfect wife; he was forty years old when he married Rebekah. If you do the math you realize Isaac waited twenty years for Rebekah to bear him children! He could have chosen a concubine to bear him a son. But he was a man of great patience who waited on God. Eventually his patient faith was rewarded.
Isaac never gave up hope that his Lord could make the impossible, poss ible. He had learned that his Lord would provide. So he continued to pray the same desperate prayer for a son, day after day, month after month, year after year. In fact, we learn in Genesis 25:21 that "Isaac pleaded with the Lord" (NLT), meaning he earnestly and strongly prayed about his problem. He did not half-heartedly ask God for a son, he pleaded! He begged. He poured his heart out.
I can envision Isaac passionately pleading to God throughout those twenty years, with out-stretched arms and a tear-stained face pressed against the hot, dirty soil, begging God to answer his prayer.
Isaac was surely tired of the wait, but he never stopped praying or believing that his dreams could come true. And in God's perfect timing, they did.
If you are tired of the wait, you may be pleading to God just like Isaac. It may take twenty years for God to answer our prayers, or it may only take twenty minutes. But today, let us find comfort in remembering Isaac's patient faith an d take hope in believing that God is not tired of hearing our prayers. Instead, He is simply waiting for the perfect time to answer.
Dear Lord, please help me have patience and faith while I wait to hear from You. Help me live in excited anticipation for the day when I will see how You answer my prayers. In Jesus' Name, Amen.
Application Steps:Consider prayers that have not been answered, but which you have not prayed about lately. Ask God to give you a renewed hope about those desires and faithfully wait on His timing.
Reflections:Have I stopped praying about something because I've grown tired of waiting on God?
Power Verses:Psalm 27:14, "Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD." (NIV)Isaiah 40:31, "But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." (KJV)
Tired of Waiting on God 24 Mar 2010Tracie Miles
"Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them." Genesis 25:26a (NIV)
Do you ever get tired of waiting on God to answer your prayers? Recently, I began to feel a sense of frustration with the wait, and also a little bit tired.
Tired of saying the same old prayer day after day, month after month, year after year. Tired of telling God about the same old problems that were still going on. Tired of hearing myself pray about the same old problems, leading me to wonder if God was as tired of hearing my prayer requests as I was of praying them.
So I bowed my head and admitted to God that I was simply tired of the wait.
In a heavy state of emotional tiredness, I turned to the crisp, white pages of my Bible. I was hoping God would il luminate a few verses that would jump out of the book and straight into my heart.
I began reading about when Isaac's wife Rebekah gave birth to twin sons. One particular sentence caught my eye and I went back to read it again and again. My heart leapt as I realized God was using this one little sentence to speak hope into my spirit. He used His spiritual highlighter just as I had wanted.
Genesis 25:26 tells us that Isaac was sixty years old when his twins were born; a simple Bible fact, yet profoundly meaningful to me on this specific day. You see, Isaac had been patient for the Lord to provide the perfect wife; he was forty years old when he married Rebekah. If you do the math you realize Isaac waited twenty years for Rebekah to bear him children! He could have chosen a concubine to bear him a son. But he was a man of great patience who waited on God. Eventually his patient faith was rewarded.
Isaac never gave up hope that his Lord could make the impossible, poss ible. He had learned that his Lord would provide. So he continued to pray the same desperate prayer for a son, day after day, month after month, year after year. In fact, we learn in Genesis 25:21 that "Isaac pleaded with the Lord" (NLT), meaning he earnestly and strongly prayed about his problem. He did not half-heartedly ask God for a son, he pleaded! He begged. He poured his heart out.
I can envision Isaac passionately pleading to God throughout those twenty years, with out-stretched arms and a tear-stained face pressed against the hot, dirty soil, begging God to answer his prayer.
Isaac was surely tired of the wait, but he never stopped praying or believing that his dreams could come true. And in God's perfect timing, they did.
If you are tired of the wait, you may be pleading to God just like Isaac. It may take twenty years for God to answer our prayers, or it may only take twenty minutes. But today, let us find comfort in remembering Isaac's patient faith an d take hope in believing that God is not tired of hearing our prayers. Instead, He is simply waiting for the perfect time to answer.
Dear Lord, please help me have patience and faith while I wait to hear from You. Help me live in excited anticipation for the day when I will see how You answer my prayers. In Jesus' Name, Amen.
Application Steps:Consider prayers that have not been answered, but which you have not prayed about lately. Ask God to give you a renewed hope about those desires and faithfully wait on His timing.
Reflections:Have I stopped praying about something because I've grown tired of waiting on God?
Power Verses:Psalm 27:14, "Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD." (NIV)Isaiah 40:31, "But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." (KJV)
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