Encouraging...

It's been a really rough month for me, for various reasons...discontentment...feeling extremely unsettled...etc. (there have been amazing things, of course--I'm not discounting those parts of the past month!) And it has really taken its toll spiritually. Last week, especially, I felt so dry, so desperate for the "living water" of the Lord...

And last night, as I was driving home from a church council meeting, a song came on the radio that I have heard many times, and it really just struck me. Here are the lyrics. It doesn't matter how I feel--I have a choice to worship the Lord, and it doesn't matter what is going on in my life. It's either that I choose to worship Him, or I choose to walk away, in a sense, and focus on other things. He is the Creator of ALL things, the One who gave His life for me--and He deserves my love and worship!!

I need to remember the message of this song daily, for awhile, as I seek to get out of this "valley"--a valley I've traveled in for about a year now...

...and I feel better today than I have felt in a long while...more at peace...happier...and more content...

Thank you, Lord, for allowing me to hear that song yesterday...it was just what I needed.