By Your Side

I heard this song for the first time a few weeks ago and quickly hunted down the group who recorded it on You Tube. This has got to be the song that has spoken to me more than any other in the last month and I have downloaded it on to my ipod, computer, and it is currently the ring on my cell. Thank you to Tenth Avenue North for a wonderful song that speaks in the depth of my soul.

My favorite verses are the following:

Why are you striving these days
Why are you trying to earn grace
Why are you crying
Let me lift up your face
Just don't turn away

Why are you looking for love
Why are you still searching as if I'm not enough
To where will you go child
Tell me where will you run
To where will you run

And I'll be by your side
Wherever you fall
In the dead of night
Whenever you call
And please don't fight
These hands that are holding you
My hands are holding you

Isn't that just like so many of us?

The other day I just stood for a moment in the middle of Target with this song playing in my head and watched all the people around me. Most of them never noticed me and I thought about how much time, just like them, I spend a day striving towards goals that are unrealistic and pointless. How much time do I spend trying to earn love and grace that is so easily attained and has already been given to me by our Heavenly Father? Why do I do this when I should just embrace Him and receive that love? I don't have to be perfect. I don't have to be anything. I just have to embrace the love He gives so freely. You know my friends, no one else in this world can do that for you. No one else can love you so deeply, purely and unconditionally and so many of us refuse it and fight it. Christians and non-Christians alike. We struggle and try to find it in our spouse, children, parents, etc and it simply isn't there because all those people, no matter how much we love them and they love us, are imperfect beings. Jesus is perfect and so is his love! So join me and just try to embrace it. Thank God that He is always right there beside you, loving you just the way you are.