The Beauty of Contagious Passion

I've developed a bit of a habit of writing songs to process things... Here's something I've been working on =) "There was a lot on my mind as I got on that plane, Would it be the same as the home I left far away, The way that we'd connected, Would our hearts reunite? Was a lot on my mind, as I got on that plane... Oh I wondered, if you'd remember me, Or if you'd be so shy and we would have to start again, But I have been oh so blessed,  To see how far you've come, For you stole my heart from the time we'd had before. For my heart had waited so long, For when I could return, To my home so far away, That stole my heart. Now time has been and gone, It's like I miss you all the more, I pray our hearts might meet again, But I will wait upon Your will. The look in your eyes that I had greatly missed, As you shared your God sized dreams or how you wanted to reach more, So needs in your home could be met...

It's been about six weeks since I came back from Indonesia. I am so thankful for the journey God has taken me on since returning. The first week I came back, I was pretty miserable. Each night I would sit, asking God to ease the pain, for I missed my 'family' in Indonesia so deeply. I asked why he'd given me such a big heart for a community so far away, that I only saw for one week a year. Often I'd end up, just sitting with my guitar in my hands, trying to express what I felt, but finding it impossible to put into into music or words... As I tried to find God's purpose and will in all that had happened, I started reading books about spiritual disciplines. One talks all about accepting God's different invitations. For example, one talked about God's invitation to wait. This is something I'm not very good at, I find it stressful because it begs uncertainty and it's something I can't control. I began to pray about why it was so hard for me t...