There are so many songs out there that try to define love. Songs about falling in love, losing love, what we'd do for love, the beauty of love... all trying to capture something that can't be described, only felt.
There is one song that talks about a love that can be more than felt, it can be lived. This song really touches my heart every time I hear it and reminds me that that One Love is always on offer to me and has the power to change my life, if I'll let it...
"I See Love"
Some see a teacher
Standing on a hill
Speaking words of wisdom
Some see a healer
Reaching out his hand
To give sight to a blind man
Some see a dreamer
Wasting his life
On what can never be
Some see a fool
Dying for his dreams
But I see love
I see love
Light of heaven breaking through
Well I see grace
I see God's face
Shining pure and perfect love
When I see you
I see love
Some see a prisoner
Alone before his judge
With no one to defend him
Some see a victim
Beaten and abused
With all the world against him
Some see a martyr
Carrying his cross
For what he believes
Some see a hero
Who set his people free
But I see love
I see love
Light of heaven breaking through
Well I see grace
I see God's face
Shining pure and perfect love
When I see you
With your last breath
I see love
Through your death
I see love
I see peace in the eyes of the King
I see hope in your suffering
I see a calm in the centre of the storm
I see a Saviour
I see love
I see love
Light of heaven breaking through
I see grace
I see God's face
Shining pure and perfect love
When I see you
I see love
When I see you
I see heaven breaking through
See God's face
Shining pure and perfect love
When I see you
When I see you
When I see you
I see love
I see love
When I see
Some see Him walking from an empty grave
Some love, huh? More than a feeling or a song - a person.
What do you see when you look at Him?
Love Brooke
Monday, September 12, 2011
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
What is Your Life's Blueprint?
This is one of my favourite speeches from Martin Luther King Jr, and I thought you might like it too...
"I want to ask you a question, and that is: What is your life's blueprint?
Whenever a building is constructed, you usually have an architect who draws a blueprint and that blueprint serves as the pattern, as the guide, and a building is not well erected withour a good, solid blueprint.
Now, each of you is in the process of building the structure of your lives, and the question is whether you have a proper, a solid, and a sound blueprint.
I want to suggest some of the things that should be in your life's blueprint. Number one, in your life's blueprint, should be a deep belief in your own dignity, your worth, and your own somebodiness. Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody. Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.
Secondly, in your life's blueprint, you must have as the basic principle the determination to achieve excellence in your variuos fields of endeavour. You're going to be deciding as the days, as the years unfold what you will do in life - what your life's work will be. Set out to do it well...
And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don't just set out to do a good job. Set out to do such a good job that the living, the dead, or the unborn couldn't do it any better.
If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets life Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well. If you can't be a pine at the top of the hill, be a shrub in the valley. But be the best little shrub on the side of the hill.
Be a bush if your can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you will win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are."
This inspires me every time I read it, and I hope it encourages you too. Go out and be GREAT!
"I want to ask you a question, and that is: What is your life's blueprint?
Whenever a building is constructed, you usually have an architect who draws a blueprint and that blueprint serves as the pattern, as the guide, and a building is not well erected withour a good, solid blueprint.
Now, each of you is in the process of building the structure of your lives, and the question is whether you have a proper, a solid, and a sound blueprint.
I want to suggest some of the things that should be in your life's blueprint. Number one, in your life's blueprint, should be a deep belief in your own dignity, your worth, and your own somebodiness. Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody. Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.
Secondly, in your life's blueprint, you must have as the basic principle the determination to achieve excellence in your variuos fields of endeavour. You're going to be deciding as the days, as the years unfold what you will do in life - what your life's work will be. Set out to do it well...
And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don't just set out to do a good job. Set out to do such a good job that the living, the dead, or the unborn couldn't do it any better.
If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets life Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well. If you can't be a pine at the top of the hill, be a shrub in the valley. But be the best little shrub on the side of the hill.
Be a bush if your can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you will win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are."
This inspires me every time I read it, and I hope it encourages you too. Go out and be GREAT!
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Just in Case
I love being able to see "my kids" every week at youth group, hug them and tell them how much God and I love and value them. Even if they think "yeah yeah yeah, I know you love me Brooke - stop telling me all the time", it can never be underestimated how important and life-changing a timely encouragement can be, especially for those who maybe don't receive much affection at home.
So, in case you haven't been told lately...
You are unique, worthy of love and needed in this world
You have been created to fill a place that no one else can fill
You are talented, beautiful, a masterpiece
Your life counts and you can make a difference
Hope and forgiveness are always available to you
You don't have to be afraid to be yourself and follow your dreams
You deserve respect, value and success
You are loved by God in Heaven, your family and true friends, and me.
We will always love you, treasure you, encourage you and believe in you - no matter what.
... Just in case you didn't know :)
Love Brooke
So, in case you haven't been told lately...
You are unique, worthy of love and needed in this world
You have been created to fill a place that no one else can fill
You are talented, beautiful, a masterpiece
Your life counts and you can make a difference
Hope and forgiveness are always available to you
You don't have to be afraid to be yourself and follow your dreams
You deserve respect, value and success
You are loved by God in Heaven, your family and true friends, and me.
We will always love you, treasure you, encourage you and believe in you - no matter what.
... Just in case you didn't know :)
Love Brooke
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