By Faith

The last seven months has been one of many ups and downs, contracting the building of you're own house while working full time was a lot to bite off for 2 people, but it's done now and all though at the moment I can't say I'd do it again, I wouldn't give up the experience and the growth that came along with it. At the beginning Joel and I sat down and set some "guidelines" in regards to our life as a married couple, as individuals, and as followers of Jesus. Although I have to be honest, during these last 3 months we have failed at all of them. Our time together, alone and with Jesus has really suffered and I am feeling the weight of it crashing down on me. There is still aways to go with putting our home together and finishing the landscaping but that's the easy part and it's time to get back to a normal life where we have time to go on dates, hang out with friends and get back into the word. All of the busyness has really had me thinking about what is important in my life. I need to spend good quality time making memories with my husband, we need to laugh and learn and eat with friends, and I NEED Jesus everyday. As we stumble into church (late) on Sunday morning for the last little while I've been listening and trying to take in the words that the Pastors share with us but at times have found myself so spiritually dry that I can't understand. I started to think about my faith and what it means to me but I was having problems getting those feelings past the feelings part. I couldn't verbalize, I couldn't write, they were just stuck inside my brain with no where to escape to. But then we sang this song a church a few weeks ago and I LOVED, it filled me up. And then we sang it again this weekend and again, I just want to burst. There are just something about the words that just shake me (in a good way) to the core and I realize that this is my faith which I have bound up with busyness over the past months. So you can read the words but hopefully I can figure out how to post the youtube video to my blog

By Faith

Words and Music by Keith & Kristyn Getty & Stuart Townend

By faith we see the hand of God

In the light of creation's grand design

In the lives of those who prove His faithfulness

Who walk by faith and not by sight

By faith our fathers roamed the earth

With the power of His promise in their hearts

Of a holy city built by God's own hand

A place where peace and justice reign

We will stand as children of the promise

We will fix our eyes on Him our soul's reward

Till the race is finished and the work is done

We'll walk by faith and not by sight

By faith the prophets saw a day

When the longed-for Messiah would appear

With the power to break the chains of sin and death

And rise triumphant from the grave

By faith the church was called to go

In the power of the Spirit to the lost

To deliver captives and to preach good news

In every corner of the earth

We will stand...

By faith this mountain shall be moved

And the power of the gospel shall prevail

For we know in Christ all things are possible

For all who call upon His name

We will stand...