Looked down from a broken sky
Traced out by the city lights
My world from a mile high
Best seat in the house tonight
Touched down on the cold black top
Hold on for the sudden stop
Breath in the familiar shock
Of confusion and chaos
All those people going somewhere,
Why have I never cared?

Give me your eyes for just one second
Give me your eyes so I can see
Everything that I keep missing
Give me your love for humanity
Give me your arms for the broken hearted
Ones that are far beyond my reach.
Give me your heart for the ones forgotten
Give me your eyes so I can see
Yeah
Yeah
 
Step out on a busy street
See a girl and our eyes meet
Does her best to smile at me
To hide what's underneath
There's a man just to her right
Black suit and a bright red tie
Too ashamed to tell his wife
He's out of work
He's buying time
All those people going somewhere
Why have I never cared?

 

I've Been there a million times
A couple of million eyes
Just moving past me by
I swear I never thought that I was wrong
Well I want a second glance
So give me a second chance
To see the way you see the people all along

Brandon Heath

So often I lose my eternal perspective, I keep falling back into my own little world. My problems, my life, the little world I have created, never outside of my comfort zone. And I always struggle to find my way back to truly caring for those outside my world. And  then I gotta stop and say, God give me your eyes, lets look past my life, my self-centeredness, and see why I have stopped caring? And then I gotta give God back the reigns.

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighborhood ~ Louise Beal

( sad but so true eh?)

 It's hard for me to believe its been one year since I returned from IGO, and it's got me to thinking about all those goals I set for when I would return home. Just looking back and seeing where i've grown, and where growing still need to happen, right now the latter seems like a much larger list. So Here I sit, re-writing some of my goals, looking at the past, evaluting my growth, and totally excited about what God's going to do with my future.

Man, what I would do to see some of these kids again, but yet so often I don't take the time to touch the lives right around me.  Everywhere I look, there are people in need. Did you ever get that overwhelmed feeling, so many things to do yet so little time! Man I wish i was a cat, with 9 lives. Wait ... I take that back.

Saw on the news yesterday, that the Hajj 2008 is in full swing, and I had to look back to last year and remember seeing all the people in the airport dressed in white and ready for their trip! Has anyone in the past year told them that Jesus is more than a mere phrophet?

Thats my life right now, setting my goals, looking ahead, I can't wait to see what God's gonna do with my future! Ya is scary but there are so many differant paths that it could take, which one is it going to be? And looking at the past helps me realize that God's in total control. So I'm warning you 2009 look out, cause Ted is coming through! Have a great week, and i'll leave ya'll with a qoute.

"Let us so live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry." - Mark Twain