I wrote this draft on February 23 and saved it, assuming I would publish at some point. I’m not sure what makes today the right day for it except that I’m starting this day off frustrated and somehow this song and this post keeps coming to my mind. Maybe I need to go listen to this song a few times before I start this day off on the wrong foot.
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I’ve probably heard this song by Hillsong United a million times. No lie, I listen to it all the time. I still remember the very first time I heard in on the radio on a chilly Saturday morning in the fall of 2014. I remember where I was going, what I was doing.
It’s a gorgeous song and the message really spoke to my heart from the very first time I heard it. And every time since. And I’ve listened to it on repeat more times than I can count. {More times than any normal person would admit but that’s how I get with music. When I find something I love, I listen to it over and over and over again.} I’ve dreamed of designing a print to hang in my house with lyrics from this song.
I never made this dream a reality because all the lyrics are so powerful and I couldn’t ever settle on just one. Know what I mean?
And then cleaning up the kitchen while David sat in our freezing basement attending his grad school class {via the Internet} it just clicked.
A total lightbulb moment. The lyrics hit me in a way they never have before. Possibly because I was facing something I never had before.
You call me out upon the waters
The great unknown
Where feet may fail
And there I find you in the mystery
In oceans deep
My faith will stand
I was in the middle of wanting to make decisions about the future. But not knowing which route to go. Not knowing what others would decide and how that would affect my decision. Not knowing if I had the courage to make the decision I wanted to make. Not knowing when these decisions could be made. Overall… are you sensing a theme of not knowing? Because that’s how I felt.
But He calls us to unknown territories.
And yes, there’s a chance of failure.
But that’s where we find Him. When we step out of the boat.
In oceans deep.
Because there, and only there, can my faith stand.
Such a key reminder for my overly-planning self. I don’t have to decide right now. I don’t have to even know when the decision will be made. I have to to be willing to take the step into the great unknown.
So that’s what I’m doing.
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