Seek Me and You Will Find Me

I had the amazing blessing of spending last weekend on a personal retreat. A friend's family was very kind in allowing me to use their beach house. It was definitely a needed, refreshing and nurturing Heavenly Father/daughter weekend. There is truly nothing like getting away from the noise and distractions to allow you to hear God's voice and see His work in your life more clearly. At a couple points in the weekend though I became rather confused as to why it didn't seem like God was saying much....Although I didn't expect to receive all the answers I wanted in neat little packages, I was expecting to experience God in ways I hadn't before... That's definitely something about God... sometimes He gives what I'm asking but its not in the package I'm expecting... The beach was empty as far as I could see so it was just me, God and the sunrise. (something I experienced in Hilton Head last summer and wanted to take advantage of while I had the chance) I began asking God why I hadn't felt He was saying much... Almost instantaneously I heard something not too far off shore.....




Dolphins hunting for breakfast. They're such graceful, beautiful, peaceful animals. I was caught still for a few minutes just watching them. As I stood there I felt God say one of most clear things He had since I arrived. "What do you mean I'm not speaking? I brought you here to see something you loved as a little girl" He knows me. Inside and out. He knows what touches my heart and makes me feel closer to Him. Dolphins were my favorite animal growing up and here I was watching God's private display for me of His beautiful creation.
I felt badly for questioning Him about not meeting with me as I'd hoped. But he was.... He was right there beside me treating me to such an undeserved glimpse of His beauty. God's always with me. Its just a matter of opening the eyes of my heart to see His fingerprints all around me...

Finding Purpose

You put me here for a reason
You have a mission for me
You knew my name and You called it
Long before I learned to breathe

Sometimes I feel disappointed
By the way I spend my time
How can I further Your kingdom
When I'm so wrapped up in mine

In a blink of an eye that is when
I'll be closer to You than I've ever been
Time will fly, but until then
I'll embrace every moment I'm given
There's a reason I'm alive for a blink of an eye

And though I'm living a good life
Can my life be something great?
I have to answer the question
Before it's too late

Cause in a blink of an eye that is when
I'll be closer to You than I've ever been
Time will fly, but until then
I'll embrace every moment I'm given
There's a reason I'm alive for a blink of an eye

If I give the very best of me
That becomes my legacy
So tell me what am I waiting for?
What am I waiting for?

In a blink of an eye that is when
I'll be closer to You than I've ever been
Time will fly, but until then
I'll embrace every moment I'm given

In a blink of an eye that is when
I'll be closer to You than I've ever been
Time will fly, but until then
I'll embrace every moment I'm given
There's a reason I'm alive for a blink of an eye

In the Blink of an Eye -- Mercy Me

Jer 29:11
Rom 8:15-17