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Texas Heart – Intro

I recently had a friend post a comment on my blog about how many “life changes” I’ve been through in the past couple of years. I hadn’t really thought that much about it. Sometimes, when you are busy living life, it’s easy not to sit back and reflect on all the things that have really happened.

So, I sat back and thought about my life over the past 2 1/2ish years, and I realized how right she was.
Since May of 2008 I –
graduated college
moved to N.C.
worked at Duke
fell in love across the world with a Marine in Japan
got engaged
left N.C.
got married
lived in Arizona, Japan, and Atlanta, and then back to Japan.
Moved to S.C. with my husband
we bought a house
and now in just a few short weeks we are having a baby.
All of that in less than 3 years.
I guess that is a lot of change in a short amount of time.
One thing that I’ve been wanting to do since Grant and I got married was write out our story. I’ve had a lot of people ask me about our engagement and marriage and I’ve wanted to sit down and write out all that happened while the memories are still fresh, but that takes time.
Also, I think stories are often so much better told through the lens of time and wisdom. I think me writing out our story after 20 or 30 years of marriage would be a lot more meaningful than just 1 1/2 years after getting married.
But, I don’t want to forget. So, I’m going to write what I can now. And I’m worried if I don’t start now, I might not ever do it.
I have another reason for attempting to write out our story – that God would be glorified. I truly believe that He is the sovereign orchestrator of the events of our lives as Believers. And as we trust our lives to Him, we get to see Him work in ways that we would have never imagined or pictured for ourselves. And that is such a wonderful story.
I hope that every post on this blog brings glory to God and His goodness.
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Make My Life A Prayer


Make My Life A Prayer
(sung at our wedding ceremony – Aug. 22, 2009.
I had this song written in the front cover of my Bible in college. Grant used to listen to it often in high school as a prayer to the Lord.)

I make my life a prayer to You,
I want to do what you want me to,
No empty words and no white lies,
No token prayers, no compromise,
I want to shine the light you gave,
Through Your Son, you sent to save us,
From ourselves and our despair,
It comforts me to know You’re really there.

I want to die, and let You give,
Your life to me, so I might live,
And share the hope you gave to me,
The love that set me free,
I want to tell the world out there,
You’re not some fable or fairy tail,
That I made up inside my head,
You’re God, The Son, you’ve risen from the dead.

Oh, I want to thank You now,
For being patient with me,
Oh, it’s so hard to see,
When my eyes are on me,
I guess I’ll have to trust,
And just believe what you say,
Oh, You’re coming again,
Coming to take me away.

I want to die, and let you give,
Your life to me, so I might give,
And share the hope you gave to me,
I want to share the love that set me free.

(Keith Green)