every moment

we laughed out loud til we cried and the tears were sweet
midnight melted to morning
a moment faded to memory
all these days just slip away through our fingers

so don't let go - hold onto every moment
always know - hold onto every moment that you can!

we move on with no regrets to our destiny
held by the hands of the Father
we share His love and He leads us through all these days
they just slip away through our fingers

running through yesterday into tomorrow
don't let it just slip away
forget about tying the hands of time
give every minute to the One who's given today!

i've heard this song before but just yesterday i actually stopped and listened to the lyrics. they pretty much stopped me in my tracks. the past couple weeks i've really been hurting for my VA friends. it hasn't helped that i've experienced a lot of loneliness this summer. i constantly find myself re-living the past. wishing i was somewhere other than where i was...am...am going to be...i've been wishing for the past and worrying about the future.

but then i heard the bridge of this song and it was like a huge wake up call!

i am where i am because that's where God placed me.
i'm going where i'm going because that's where God wants to use me.

i may not be where i want most to be, but if i know that God is going to use me most in MI, why can i not be content in that?

i'm not sure how He's going to use me.
i don't even know where my next paycheck is coming from.
i have no idea what the next few months will look like for my family.

but God does.

there's a phrase i learned this summer that if she'd known it, my mother would've most likely used it a lot when i was a kid ;)

don't anticipate. participate.

just take directions as they come.
be content in those directions.
because the One who is giving them knows way more about the big picture than i do!