What We're Listening To Wednesday - Rejoice and Lament

I find myself drawn to this song for a few reasons. 

#1.  It is like poetry...and I love poetry ;)

#2.  I like the word lament.  I sort of knew what it meant and being the nerd that I can be sometimes, I love looking up words and their definition.  This is what I got: 

la·ment: to express sorrow, regret, or unhappiness about something

#3.  There is a time/season to feel out your feelings.  You're allowed to feel.  Just don't get stuck and dwell on your feelings.  Move through the process, you can still thrive through the process of pain, hurt, sadness...just make sure you continue to move and push forward.  

#4.  When the season of lamenting is done...REJOICE.  

Don't forget that through the lamenting, you can still have peace, joy and love.  If you are walking through a season of lamenting, lean on God, trust in Him, continue to ask Him for the best, continue to hope, believe, and dream.  Let your suffering produce deeper roots in Him, let your sadness/hurt from the past catapult you towards a bright future.  God's hand will never stop moving in your life if you allow it, He will continue to bless you even in your time of lamenting and when you look back, you will see that those feelings, each and every single one of them...got you to where you are today.  

Rejoicing with you, 

Christy Creative Dreamer Dawn

Transition, Change, Unknown.

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Re-write.

Draft.

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Recently, I lack the ability to arrange my words. Instead, I seem to hear my brother’s statement ring in my ear, “keep it simple, keep it raw…” So, the simple part: I am in a stage of transition and change. The raw portion: it’s filled with endless unknown. As a result, I seem to listen to “Farther Along” on repeat by Josh Garrels.

Truthfully, I think in time I’ll understand why I am entering into another transition; another collection of changes; and another season of such unknown.

In the meantime, it’s like God is boldly whispering in my ear, “Oh Charlene, remove any limits or expectations that you’ve place upon me. I desire to surprise you with my goodness. Furthermore, I will not only meet your daily needs, rather I will take it one step further, as I give you the desires of your heart.”

It’s a new year. Hence, 2014 is guaranteed to be full of transition, change and unknown.  So, maybe you, just like me, need to be okay with the transition, the change, and even the unknown.  Because as the song states, “farther along we’ll know all about it. Farther along we’ll understand why. So, much more to life than we’ve been told. It’s full of beauty that will unfold…”

I choose to see BEAUTY in the transition, the change, and the unknown.

Charlene