Divine Romance

(photo by Randy Olive; sunset over Wimberley, TX)


This morning, I heard a new song (well, new to me!) and I keep replaying it over and over. It is speaking to me...

Divine Romance
- Phil Wickham

The fullness of Your grace is here with me
The richness of Your beauty’s all I see
The brightness of Your glory has arrived
In Your presence God, I’m completely satisfied

For You I sing I dance
Rejoice in this divine romance
Lift my heart and my hands
To show my love, to show my love

A deep deep flood, an Ocean flows from You
Of deep deep love, yeah it’s filling up the room
Your innocent blood, has washed my guilty life
In Your presence God I’m completely satisfied

Wow. (Not to mention that there's a banjo in the version with a band!) Beautiful words, beautiful song, beautiful prayer. Divine Romance. Do I live like that? Do I live like I am in a DIVINE ROMANCE with my Jesus? Everyday? How can I not?!? I am reminded of what He did for me this week. He deserves ALL the glory - I deserve none - yet He chooses to pay attention to me and lift me up. We seem to have LOST the simplicity of what He longs for... a relationship with us. To WALK with us through good days and bad. To laugh and cry together, to grow together, to live together. I'm reminded that it's ME who pulls away sometimes. HE is ALWAYS there waiting. What He did for me is ENOUGH! He IS Divine Romance. How could I not live in that?

Uplifted

Last night, we were uplifted. Randy just wrote about it as well (below). A night full of music, laughter, and tears with old friends and new ones. Speaking into each others' lives, encouraging one another, sharing God stories... Wow - If only everyone could get a regular dose of what we experienced last night. Thank you to Bruce and Connie for offering your office, your time, your words and your wisdom with a bunch of "kids."

(taken from Randy's blog)

A Pastor and Church

Last night I went to Clay Road Baptist Church. Our friends Justin and Natalie go there, and we went to go see an Easter program they were singing in. Last night we had church. Not in the sense we sat in a room, in a building listened to someone talk, listened to someone sing, and prayed. (Even though we had some very genuine worship.) Church happened when we met for the first time their pastor Bruce and his wife Connie. Justin and Natalie always talk about how great their pastor and his wife are. We definitely experienced that. After the service we made small talk with Bruce and Connie. Justin wanted us to see Bruce's office. So Justin, Natalie, Robin, Ellen and myself (a bunch of 20 somethings) along with Bruce and Connie went to go see Bruce's office. The office was nice, but it only served as a room for us to have church that evening. The seven of us sat in that office for two and half hours sharing stories of what God is doing in our lives, what God has done in our past, what God has gifted us with; there was singing, there was laughing, there was even a bit of crying, but every single thing that came out of us that night was honoring to our God and was for sharpening each other! Amen. This man Bruce and his wife Connie are a spiritual force to be reckoned with. The coolest thing...we didn't TRY to create a moment, we just were vulnerable to letting the spirit move. Ill write about Bruce and Connie later, but for now...I want to leave with this--last night I met two true pastors in every sense of the word and we had CHURCH in that little office. :)