Lyrics with Lauren: Izzy and Laur Rock Out!

I get paid to take care of this precious little one:

Best job EVER!

I'd do it for free, but don't tell Josh and Sara that!!

Anyway, every Wednesday, Izzy and I like to turn off the T.V. and put on the praise music. And we get down with our bad selves like the Rock Princesses that we are.

I was having a rough day and was really missing my mom, but Izzy just giggled and laughed and how can anyone be sad and cry while staring into that beautiful child's face?

Anyway, here's one we love:

Visible by 4Him (I realize I may lose all musical street cred with some of my audience on this one, but give me the benefit of the doubt...).

Sometimes I feel so inadequate.

I start to question am I ready for these things you ask.

My words are not so eloquent.

but if I speak the truth in love.

even simple words are equal to the task.

Oh Lord let your spirit rise within me.

until the world cannot deny that you exist.

This is my only passion

the very reason why I live.

To make you known, to make you seen,

to be your hands, to be your feet.

Oh I want to be a Revelation of love.

I want to make the invisible God visible.

May my life be an offering,

so completely given till there's nothing left but you alone.

This is my prayer, my destiny,

that my life reveals your glory

so that you remain long after I am gone.

Oh Lord you have made me for this purpose.

And all I have is just one life to give my all.

Make it clear to see who you are revealed in me

(a sacrifice) the beauty of the life you gave.

unending love amazing grace, my one desire

yep. That's what we're trying to do today. Me and Izzy and our little dancing praise band of two rocker chicks.

Thursday Night Mind Dump.

Hey.

• I love my life. The joy, the sorrow, the beauty, the ugly. I love it all.




• My friends Jeremy and Katie are now parents (see the prayer request post somewhere below) and they have the sweetest, cutest, dimple-faced, dark haired little boy EVER.



• The retreat is this weekend. I won't be posting, but you can be praying:
  
  

• Didn't my love do a good job on the graphic?
• Speaking of "Setharooskie," as my nieces call him, he came to visit me tonight and it was the best part of my day. Gosh I love that guy.
• Plus, Jami came over to hang out with us. BONUS!
• A blog is coming on Transparency. look for it...
• Watching American Justice right now. LOVE IT.
• We came in waaay under budget for food for the retreat due to people's generosity. I love the Body of Christ!
• God is better to me than I deserve, even when I choose not to see it.
• I watched Izzy yesterday for the first time in, like, three weeks. I wish you all would have seen her face when I walked in! It was precious. I KNOW she was glad to see me. And she's sitting up by herself now. : D
• Jami and I were talking about being good moms tonight because of her sweet sister Stacey, who from what I've heard is an awesome mama to her three little boys (Jami and I have developed a plan for arranged marriage of her three nephews to my three nieces). I can only hope to be as good of a mom as some of the women I know. I pray that I can be like them.
• If I don't get a new Grey's episode soon, I may go into a serious funk.
• Pray for Michal and Rochelle as they travel to Florida (must be nice.) trying not to be jealous :)
• So glad David Archuleta is going to dominate American Idol.
• I need a vacay too! Looking forward to Adam and Claire's wedding up north. That's the closest I'll get to one in a while!
• INTERACTIVE: I think Seth and I are going to the OCU's spring formal in April, and I am gonna buy a new dress, dang it. So should it be black or red?
• God is going to move this weekend. I'm looking forward to watching Him.
• If you are reading this, I love you!

Izzy and the Love that holds us.

Once a week I spend the day nannying for a most wonderful family. I watch their little girl, Isabella most of the day.


Because of Izzy, I have found Wednesdays to be filled with love and life. She is the sweetest little baby who is filled with wonder at the smallest happiness, such as her swing or her bottle. She is restless and fights sleep, but goes out like a light when I hold her. Her little face glows when I walk into the room once a week.

And she, much like the children I serve at church, has certainly been a means of grace to me. She has taught me the meaning of this verse:

The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing."
Zephaniah 3:17

Izzy can just look at me and I grin. How God must feel the same about us. We look at Him and he grins too.

Izzy and I love to turn on worship music in the house and sing and dance. It makes me so happy when Izzy will coo like she's trying to sing. And when she is going to sleep, I sing to her. And I smile at how my God sings to me, when I am restless and confused and exhausted.


What a beautiful thing it is to be quieted by the love of the Creator of the Universe.