Couldn't have said it any better myself.

I find it comical how sometimes, God uses my iPod playlist to put something in my mind that I really need to hear. Last week, I was feeling particularly hopeless and falling back into my old habits. I know I need help but, I've been so distracted and frankly, just plain mean, lately that I don't feel like I can ask. So, since I wasn't being productive and sitting there beating myself up wasn't helping anyone, I decided to go for a run. Normally, I scroll to my "Running" playlist for a run. It contains mostly fast paced, long and loud songs ... anything to get my blood pumping and get me motivated. For this particular run, however, I simply clicked "shuffle songs." And what should grace my ears right about the time that I finished mile 1? A song that pretty much sums up everything I've written in this blog and everything that I've learned over the past few years. Since these guys have said it much more eloquently and beautifully than I could have, I'll leave you with the lyrics of "Who Am I?" by Casting Crowns.



Who am I, that the Lord of all the earth
Would care to know my name
Would care to feel my hurt
Who am I, that the Bright and Morning Star
Would choose to light the way
For my ever wandering heart

Not because of who I am
But because of what You've done
Not because of what I've done
But because of who You are

I am a flower quickly fading
Here today and gone tomorrow
A wave tossed in the ocean
Vapor in the wind
Still You hear me when I'm calling
Lord, You catch me when I'm falling
And You've told me who I am
I am Yours, I am Yours

Who am I, that the eyes that see my sin
Would look on me with love and watch me rise again
Who am I, that the voice that calmed the sea
Would call out through the rain
And calm the storm in me

Not because of who I am
But because of what You've done
Not because of what I've done
But because of who You are

I am a flower quickly fading
Here today and gone tomorrow
A wave tossed in the ocean
Vapor in the wind
Still You hear me when I'm calling
Lord, You catch me when I'm falling
And You've told me who I am
I am Yours

Not because of who I am
But because of what You've done
Not because of what I've done
But because of who You are

I am a flower quickly fading
Here today and gone tomorrow
A wave tossed in the ocean
Vapor in the wind
Still You hear me when I'm calling
Lord, You catch me when I'm falling
And You've told me who I am
I am Yours

I am Yours
Whom shall I fear
Whom shall I fear
'Cause I am Yours
I am Yours