The moments that take your breath away

I was given the opportunity to see my daughter worship.  This was no ordinary stand and sit in the right places kind of worship this was her whole heart on display in total surrender to the one who makes all things new and better.  While watching her I realized a few things.  I have placed a lot of things on hold telling myself that its ok as long as I have my schedule booked up and plenty of things to do.  But it wasn't just my writing or my friends that I have placed on hold while I have let the world rush around me.  I have been grabbing onto excuses in a feeble attempt to keep up and realizing there is no way that I can.

I realized that I have placed things, wants, desires above what is truly important in my life... My God.  What would it feel like to once again surrender my time, my schedule, my pain to Him and fall into that completely blissful moment where I know that without a doubt that I am going to be caught up in the amazingness that is His love?


Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

Peter the Apostle Martyred in Rome, 65 A.D. 1 Peter 1:8-9 (NIV)

In Memory of Janet Detzel in your joy may you dance with the angels.