Come thou fount.....

"Come, Thou fount of every blessing."


Whatever you give me, Lord, or choose to teach me may i always consider it an overabundance of Your blessing. May i always choose to see that you are a fountain of blessing, pouring out your love to the world. 
Even in the hard days or the seemingly mundane, may i focus wholeheartedly on You as my constant fountain and overflowing blessing.


"Tune my heart to sing Thy grace."


Thank you for shaping my heart in these past months, being away from the world. Thank you for tuning it daily to see your grace in a deeper way each day. Continue to tune my heart so that it may always be singing of your grace. May my life, words, actions, and every breath be a testament to your grace that I am even alive. May i sing of how it is your grace --only by your grace -- that i even get to serve a mighty Creator such as You. Tune my heart, Father. Thank you for taking the time in these past months to wreck me, shape me, and tune me more towards you.


"bind my wandering heart to thee.

Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, 
prone to leave the God I love; 
here's my heart, O take and seal it, 
seal it for thy courts above." 

Prone to wander, Lord i feel it. I have wandered. I have messed up. I have questioned. I have gotten too caught up in myself and emotions.
Lord, I wander...I do.
But Lord, you catch me.
Your relentless in Your pursuit for our hearts.
And daily, Lord, captivate me. Take hold of my heart.
Take it.
Seal it.
Seal it only for you.


This song has been my outpouring lately, during my time in Africa. And while these initial four months here in Uganda are coming to a close, I'm finding myself overwhelmed.
Overwhelmed by how much I have learned.
And overwhelmed by how much Jesus has shaped me and molded me.
I have wrested in my time here -- wrestled a lot with things going on in my heart.
Some things personal, and some things that i have been opened to see here.
But oh goodness, how I have learned.
I have learned so much more about grace and the over-pouring of grace on my heart DAILY!
It's not something to be grasped only once, it actually will never fully be grasped...
But to acknowledge that everything surmounts to God's grace on our lives and to His glory, well that makes me stop dead in my tracks.
Daily to wake up and acknowledge that on my life, that it truly is not my own.
But seeing the beauty of it being beyond my own, because me....my heart wonders,
my emotions take over,
my humanness fails me,
my crazy impulsiveness gets in the way.
But in these months being away from the world that i have grown up being so familiar and comfortable with,
I have learned so deeply what it looks like to let the very Spirit of our Lord lead and transform our lives, my life.
And i won't always get it right.
But i know that God is constant.
He is here with me.
He is bigger and better and behind every single breath that i will ever breathe!
And He wants joy for His people.
He desires unity with us.
And He truly did come to give life, and to give life to the fullest.
But when we let Him take over our hearts, our eyes, and every moment of our life....
He will show us what true abundant life really means.

And for this, i am grateful.
As these four months are coming to a close and i am getting ready to go home for a little while, I am humbled.
Humbled that the Lord totally changed my ideas, plans, or expectations.
He chose to deal with me in places He knew He needed to deal with.
He chose to have grace.
Grace on a wretch like me,
so that my life may be a small offering to show His glory.
Today,
I'm beyond grateful.
Humbled.
And joyful.
Joyful for Hope.
And thankful that there is always things to learn.
And always things to seek out.
And always things to learn to SEE.
Today and every moment, may we all choose to see His grace.
See it in ALL.

This is my prayer.


Much much love :)