chocolate chocolate chip cookies

I think Ingrid Michaelson's Be OK album is a soundtrack for my life...I listened to it almost twice on my way up to Kansas today. It also gave me lots of time to think and digest. So here's what has been happening in my life lately.

"Open me up and you will see I'm a gallery of broken hearts." - Be OK

This is how I feel about my heart right now. If you opened me up there is just row after row of my heart being broken and then put back together. That sounds kind of morbid and perhaps a bit of an exaggeration, but perhaps more than having a broken heart it is being wounded over and over again.

"I'm giving up on making passes, I'm giving up on half empty glasses, I'm giving up on greener grasses, I'm giving up." - Giving Up

This entire song talks about the what if's of relationships. What if things change in the relationship? What if we change and lose who we are? The chorus is what I quoted above and that is where she says that she is giving up looking for something better and making the best out of what she has. That's kind of how I feel. I am giving up on all my ideas of what I think is better, and I am going to accept what God is giving me.

"Where troubles melt like lemon drops" - Somewhere Over the Rainbow

I just love this line...troubles melting like lemon drops...that just makes my heart sigh.

"Now that you're gone, I can move onto something good." - Oh What A Day

God has graciously helped me to move past some things (and some people), so that I could move onto something good, something better, something that He wants to do in my life.

K and I discussed this morning that all that we know about God is His character. Normally when we get to know people we talk about their major or career, what they look like, what they want to do. We don't do that with God. We only know God by the character traits that are revealed through Scripture. This is an entire other blog post, but I love that God is Good...I can move onto something good because GOD = Good. :)

"You take me the way I am" - The Way I Am

God totally used this today to tell me that He loves me and accepts me where I am and the way that I am, but that He wants so much more for me than that which I have settled for. That's why the Father sent Jesus to die for our sins, so that I wouldn't have to stay where I am, so that I wouldn't have to stay the way I am even though He takes us the way we are. How awesome is that?!

So today God spoke to me through Ingrid...such a fantastic day and drive. And after I got to my parent's house, my mum made me chocolate chocolate chip cookies. I am so blessed.

Peace out yo!

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  1. Lore22 February, 2010

    I love Ingrid Michaelson. Her music has been the soundtrack to many a run, here in Italy. It is amazing how I can worship God through her songs..sometimes more than "worship music".

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