Make It Matter!!!

I tell you what....God has really been speaking to me lately through song. (**confirmation that I am involved in the right ministry**) Anyways...He really has. He has put certain songs on my head, heart, and even in my hands (thanks Jenny) that are really touching me and talking to me this week.

This last week since Sunday has seemed like it has lasted a month! I have learned so much about myself, My God, and my relationship with Him. It truly has been amazing.

I have finally realized, and I guess I knew it all along, but apparently God had to hit me upside the head with it to make it stick...but I realized that what I've been through, the bad things that happened or the bad things I did, they simply grow my testimony. Through my mistakes I can minister to others who have made or are making those same mistakes. All those moments in history...are the things that are weaved together to make my coat of many colors (Amen, Pastor Nate!). ALL the things I have seen, done, been through...not just the good stuff, but ALL of it, comes together to form the person God intended me to be. Now I have to use it....make it matter. Check out the words to this Natalie Grant song...it says it perfectly. MAKE IT MATTER!!

Pack my bags and my regrets
Every second that I've wasted
Chasing after
My pursuit of happiness
Has only left me searching
There must be more

[Chorus:]
Take my life and lift me up to the sky
Take my dreams and help me to fly
On the wings of possibility
Come rewrite my history
(till it's) only you I'm chasing after
Take this life and make it matter

Help me give more than I take
Let me see into somebody else's heartache
And be the difference love can make
My heart is finally finding
That there is more

Only one life to live
Only one love to give
Only one life, only one love
So make it, make it matter