Trust me, I've been there, I've looked, I've searched and I know now, that there are no answers to be found in the bottom of a bottle or on the edge of a blade! Fighting Hard, Recovering, Rebuilding, REBORN. Moving on from addiction to a new life.
It is our love for one another that we will be set apart and called His disciples and if we are truly His disciples we shall never deny Him.
STREETS by ABOVE THE GOLDEN STATE When shadows turn to faces When faces take on names When names tell us their stories Of their brokenness and pain
When love flows through the cities Through the grid of all the streets Under bridges in the alleys Like blood through our veins
Love is real Love will bleed Love will heal, love Love will need
When love is used like money It turns into our greed When love is more like water Then everyone will drink
So, let it flow through all our cities (Like the rivers fall) And flood them like the sea (Love fill us all) Fill the souls that hunger Lord, give us what we need, yeah
Sometimes in this world the hardest thing to do is love, but when nothing else is left, when you’ve tried everything else and nothing seems to change, the only way to overcome what comes is against is to love like Christ.
STREETS by ABOVE THE GOLDEN STATE When shadows turn to faces When faces take on names When names tell us their stories Of their brokenness and pain
When love flows through the cities Through the grid of all the streets Under bridges in the alleys Like blood through our veins
Love is real Love will bleed Love will heal, love Love will need
When love is used like money It turns into our greed When love is more like water Then everyone will drink
So, let it flow through all our cities (Like the rivers fall) And flood them like the sea (Love fill us all) Fill the souls that hunger Lord, give us what we need, yeah
Love is real Love will bleed Love will heal, love Love will need
Love is real Love will bleed Love will heal, yeah Love will need
Love, change the world, yeah Love, change the world
You can see it when He walks around You can feel it when He moves the ground We’re all colored with a crimson stain Can you see it now? Can you see Him now?
From the clouds to the world below From the mountain to the city of gold Love is coming like an urgent rain Can you feel it now? Can you feel Him now?
From the clouds to the world below From the mountain to the city of gold Love is coming like an urgent rain Can you feel it now? Can you feel Him now?
LOVE by ABOVE THE GOLDEN STATE I pray for love like Yours for me I pray for love like Yours for me
I pray for love more and more That I might have love like Yours A love that shines upon the earth A love that fills the ocean floors
I pray for peace like rivers flow I pray for joy like fountains glow A faith that moves the mountains to seas But most of all
I pray for love like Yours for me I pray for love like Yours for me, yeah
I pray for love more and more That I might have love like Yours A love that goes from east to west A love that has no height or depth
I pray for peace like rivers flow I pray for joy like fountains glow A faith that moves the mountains to seas But most of all
I pray for love like Yours for me I pray for love like Yours for me, yeah
I pray for peace like rivers flow I pray for joy like fountains glow I pray for truth and grace over me I pray for strength, this hope I believe A faith that moves the mountains to seas, yeah, yeah But most of all
I pray for love like Yours for me I pray for love like Yours for me I pray for love like Yours for me I pray for love like Yours for me
Though the chaos of my past may still surround me, I still find peace through Christ’s sacrifice for me.
STREETS by ABOVE THE GOLDEN STATE I lift my eyes to behold Your beauty And I can feel Your heavenly pull You meet my eyes, with Your love enfold me To rest upon, the gaze of my soul
In front of me is the figure I long for And I will turn to see no one else But I’m consumed by Your grace and wonder I’m finding You as I lose myself I’m finding You as I lose
I, I wanna gaze into Your eyes I wanna lose my soul in You, You When I stare into Your eyes I can see You looking back at me
The definition of my faith is a wonder I’d rather look to You than know Lord, I believe and I feel You moving When I love with the love You’ve shown
The distractions of this world have trapped me But I’m returning to the rest I’ve known As a bird flies away and wanders Returning to my heavenly home Returning to my heavenly
I, I wanna gaze into Your eyes I wanna lose my soul in You, You When I stare into Your eyes I can see You looking back at me I can see You looking back at me
I can see You looking back I, my eyes are on You I can see You looking I can see You looking back
I, I wanna gaze into Your eyes I wanna lose my soul in You, You When I stare into Your eyes I can see You looking back When I stare into Your eyes I can see You looking back at me
Whatever I face, God goes before me, He will be my ever present shelter, it’s time to stop doing everything by my own strength and fearing failure, He is my strength and my refuge.
ONE THIRTY NINE by ABOVE THE GOLDEN STATE When I was yet unformed You saw me and my days were numbered You formed me When I was in the dark You searched me every part turned over You found what’s inside of my heart
Where can I go If I want to be alone? I turn and Your there Now I’m gonna let it out All I know Is Your mercy surrounds me Your thoughts for me outnumber the sand Now I’m gonna sing it out From my soul Only You understand me You’re holding me inside Your hands
From the moment I was born You tried me and You made me stronger I remember when You let me take control So I would wonder Who I am and who I’m under You broke me To show me who You are
Outside cut into my inside You won’t stop ‘til You find The pride in my head, in my head Inside You can give me one mind Press me ‘til I rewind Into Your hands, into Your hands
I know this is what we are commanded to do, just sometimes it seems to hard to do.
ALL MY HEART by ABOVE THE GOLDEN STATE I don’t want to live For anything but You Jesus And all I have to give I give it all to You Jesus Every breath I breathe I breathe for You Jesus And every word I’ll speak I’ll speak for You Jesus
With all my heart And all my soul I love You Lord More and more With all my mind And all my strength Take my life
I don’t want to live For anything but You Jesus And all I have to give I give it all to You Jesus
With all my heart And all my soul I love You Lord More and more With all my mind And all my strength Take my life
Take my life With all my heart
With all my heart
With all my heart And all my soul I love You Lord More and more With all my mind And all my strength Take my life
It’s been a mixed bag of weather here over this last week, but there has been the odd moment of sunshine through the wind and rain. Luckily I managed to catch a few sunrises and sunsets on my way to and from work.
Slowly Fading
Slipping Beyond The Clouds
Creeping Behind The Trees
Resting In The Clouds
Through The Branches
Burning Bright
Touching The Light
Soft Glow
Hung In The Trees
Evening Radiance
Golden Linings
Last Light
Illuminating
Golden
The Brightness
Morning Light
In The Mist
Up On Misty Waters
In Reflection
STREETS by ABOVE THE GOLDEN STATE When shadows turn to faces, and when faces take on names When names tell us their stories, of their brokenness and pain When love flows through the cities, through the grid of all the streets Under bridges in the alleys, like blood through our veins
Love is real Love will bleed Love will heal Love will need
When love is used like money, it turns into our greed When love is more like water, then everyone will drink So let it flow through all our cities, and flood them like the sea Fill the souls that hunger, Lord give us what we need
Love change the world … Love change the world …
You can see it when He walks around You can feel it when He moves the ground We’re all colored with a crimson stain Can you see it now, can you see Him now
From the clouds to the world below From the mountain to the city of gold Love is coming like an urgent rain Can you feel it now, can you feel Him now
My Mum and her sisters picked this verse to be read at my Nan’s funeral, it summed my Nan up completely, she loved everyone.
CHAPTER 13 by ABOVE THE GOLDEN STATE If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part; but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.
When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.
But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.
I am officially shattered this evening, it’s been a long, long weekend, it’s Sunday evening and I’ve just finished work at 8.15pm!!!! On a Sunday!!! Sunday’s are for Church then Karate, but work as well?
I could just close my eyes and sleep, if I wasn’t so hungry and still actually mentally buzzing!
Friday was a great night at Amplified once again, our youth ministry is growing each week, but for me it makes a long day, but I don’t mind. I work from 7.30am to 4pm, then leave to teach karate from 4.30 to 6pm, then rush home change and out to Church until gone 10pm, a long, but extremely enjoyable day.
Yesterday was a crazy day too, I went for a 3 hour walk first thing, then at 10.30am went to Ursula’s for what I thought would be 3 or 4 hours of architectural work, wrong, eight hours later I walked home with a fried brain!!!!
So this morning another early start at Church to get the cameras set up, then filming the main service, Justin was preaching this week and boy did he cover every inch of the stage, he never stood still for too long, I had to concentrate so hard on the tiny viewing screen to follow him and keep in view, hard work, but I enjoy it, I actually enjoy the test, it helps me improve my camera work, especially with ECTV due to go live in two weeks.
A bit if lunch then off to karate for two and half hours of teaching, then leave there to go back to Ursula’s for another two and half hours staring at a computer screen, now I’m completely brain fried, but I’m not finished yet, I’m back there tomorrow night after work as well.
So now for tea and then, hopefully, a long and peaceful sleep!!!!
I heard this song on my iPod whilst walking yesterday, I’ve listened to it many times, but yesterday morning it really caught my attention, so I thought I would share it with you all.
STREETS by ABOVE THE GOLDEN STATE When shadows turn to faces, and when faces take on names When names tell us their stories, of their brokenness and pain When love flows through the cities, through the grid of all the streets Under bridges in the alleys, like blood through our veins
Love is real Love will bleed Love will heal Love will need
When love is used like money, it turns into our greed When love is more like water, then everyone will drink So let it flow through all our cities, and flood them like the sea Fill the souls that hunger, Lord give us what we need
Love change the world … Love change the world …
You can see it when He walks around You can feel it when He moves the ground We’re all colored with a crimson stain Can you see it now, can you see Him now
From the clouds to the world below From the mountain to the city of gold Love is coming like an urgent rain Can you feel it now, can you feel Him now
The Bottom of a Bottle 