Fresh Beginnings

Let me start off by saying God is good. Not good, but great, amazing, and absolutely wonderful. I am so thankful to be given the Holy Spirit that is in my heart; that I will be reminded of how much I need the Lord to truly fulfill me. I believe that it really is the Holy Spirit that puts the desire and the passion to fall in love with God. The beauty of a breakdown is the fact that it brings you so much closer to something you were trying to reach in the first place. You never understand how terrible it is to feel empty until you've experienced the complete fulfillment of God's love. 

I break very easily. But the one thing about God that completely blows my mind is his grace. His grace that is able to transform you and make you Holy in HIS eyes. I'm ready to embrace his grace and grow in our relationship. I have realized tonight that the thing that is keeping me from really growing, is my selfishness and my lack of stepping out of my comfort zone. God wants to show us things through opportunities that may not exactly be comfortable, and that is the hard thing about being a Christian. Along with going the extra mile, there is the sacrifice of things that you think you love because it is pulling you away from God.

For this new semester, I'm ready to be brave. I'm ready to go that extra uncomfortable step and give up things in order to get closer to a Father that loves me way more than any of the THINGS in my life that I think are making me happy. I wanna reach out to new people and get deeper with those I already know. I'm ready to start running, and if I fall...I know that God is there to catch me. 

"The gate is wide
The road is paved in moderation
The crowd is kind and quick to pull you in
Welcome to the middle ground
You're safe and sound and
Until now it's where I've been

'Cause it's been fear that ties me down to everything
But it's been love, Your love, that cuts the strings

So long status quo
I think I just let go
You make me want to be brave
The way it always was 
Is no longer good enough
You make me want to be brave
Brave, brave

I am small
And I speak when I'm spoken to
But I am willing to risk it all
I say Your name
Just Your name and I'm ready to jump
Even ready to fall...

Why did I take this vow of compromise?
Why did I try to keep it all inside?

So long status quo
I think I just let go
You make me want to be brave
The way it always was 
Is no longer good enough
You make me want to be brave
Brave, brave

I've never known a fire that didn't begin with a flame
Every storm will start with just a drop of rain
But if you believe in me
That changes everything
So long, I'm gone

So long status quo
I think I just let go
You make me want to be brave
I wanna be brave
The way it always was 
Is no longer good enough
You make me want to be brave
Brave, brave"

--Nicole Nordeman