Love Songs

I am what you might consider a hopeless romantic. I dream of walking the streets of Italy hand in hand with my bride, gazing into each others eyes, lost in a moment that we would remember forever. As such I have often felt disappointed with "Love Songs" written by most Christian artists. There are a few that I like but for the most part I feel they lack (and I don't mean this in a "dirty" way) the sensuality of what true love really is. They miss the longing that Solomon wrote about in Song of Solomon, all in all they just leave me flat. That being said......I often will write songs for my or about my wife because I can never find a song on the radio (Christian or not) that truly reflects my love for her.

So without further ado I give you a new song that I have written for my lovely dream girl. Enjoy!!

Me Rambling

How much do I miss because I am busy, because I am so focused on what needs to get done and not what is happening around me? To be honest, I don't know and I am sure I am missing things every second of everyday. That being said, I am not going to focus on the things I am missing....the "what if's" (had a huge conversation about those with my daughter). I am going to focus on what I do get to experience. For example, yesterday I just sat in my chair and watched my children all afternoon. I watched my oldest son sit for 3 hours and play with play-doh yesterday (if you know my oldest, then you know that that is truly an answer to prayer). I watched my middle son just being his funny little self and I can tell you I laughed and laughed watching that little guy. I sat with my daughter and watched the video of Sundays worship at ParkSide and I sang songs to my baby boy to make him smile and laugh. It was amazing, surreal, exciting, soul warming...And as I type this now....I wonder if maybe by focusing on these moments and trying to enjoy them for them beautiful fleeting moment they are that I will begin to be more aware of these moments when they are happening and through that I will end up missing less and less of the special moments.

Striving

What are we striving for? Is it comfort, security, long life? And why are we striving for these things? Sometimes I sit and think about the fact that I waste SO much time striving for insignificant things, things that do nothing for me on a long term basis, things that do not store up treasures in heaven. So, why why why why why do I strive for them? Because my focus is not where it should be, my focus is not on God (at least not like it should be).

You see, what I am coming to realize is that the more I strive for God, for knowing Him, for loving Him, for obeying Him. The less I have to worry about anything else. The more I seek after Him the less I desire the things I was striving for before. And why is that? Because, God is EVERYTHING, or as the song says, He is "more than enough...more than all I want, more than all I need..."

Lord help me, help all of us to strive for You.