Lifesong

Happy New Years! This year instead of making countless New Years Resolutions that I know won't last more than a month (such as not eating as much chocolate, going to practice more, playing ball with KJ every afternoon, etc etc) I have decided that I'm going to have one goal this year, not even a "resolution" because this should always be my goal, but in twenty-ten I'm trying harder than ever to accomplish. To live my life for God one hundred and ten percent.

Because ultimately, how fast I can swim my 100 back, or how little chocolate I can eat (that one doesn't ever seem to work out to well for a choco-haulic like myself) doesn't matter. It really doesn't.

The Christian radio station I listen to is 89.3 KSBJ, and every January they do this thing called a Thirty-day Challenge. To listen to their music and only their music for all of January. I'm doing it this year (although my ipod will have to be an exception because it is a necessity in the locker room, and I can't get KSBJ to play), so when I woke up to their station this morning (I always have music playing through the night) I was thoroughly excited and ready to give this "resolution" my best shot. I wasn't ready to drag myself outta bed this morning (not a morning person by any stretch of the imagination) so I just laid there listening to the songs, and thinking about the lyrics. One song that came on was called "Lifesong" by Casting Crowns. Now I've heard this song many times, my youth groups choir even sang it as a part of their musical two years ago. And I've always like the song, but this morning, I fell in love with it. It is like my "New Years Resolution" in song format. Here are the lyrics:

Empty hands held high
Such small sacrifice
If not joined with my life
I sing in vain tonight

May the words I say
And the things I do
Make my lifesong sing
Bring a smile to You

Let my lifesong sing to You
Let my lifesong sing to You
I want to sign Your name to the end of this day
Knowing that my heart was true
Let my lifesong sing to You

Lord I give my life
A living sacrifice
To reach a world in need
To be Your hands and feet

So may the words I say
And the things I do
Make my lifesong sing
Bring a smile to You

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Let my lifesong sing to You

Those lyrics are so so amazing. Our life only has one purpose, and that is to live, breathe, and love... for God.

So that's my New Years Resolution. To live my life completley and fully for God. To give up what I want, or what I think is right and follow God's plan for my life. Who knows what that may bring or include, but that all doesn't matter really. So God, "I give my life, a living sacrafice"... and "let my lifesong sing to You"

Happy New Years everybody, I hope twenty-ten is a blessed one for you, and I hope you will join with me in this New Years Resolution.

<3, Kylie Jene