Just Showed Up For My Own Life

This past weekend, God laid it on my heart to share part of my testimony to my Sunday School Class at our marriage retreat in Lake Junaluska, NC. I am so glad I did. It is my hope to share my entire testimony in the future and I think this was a great starting place. This is such a feeling of freedom I have now, knowing I can just be real and honest when I feel led by the Holy Spirit to share.

I am listening to this song by Sarah Groves in my car lately and it explains how I feel exactly with my life right now. The name of the song is "Just Showed Up For My Own Life." Here are some of the lyrics:

Spending my time sleep walking
Moving my mouth but not saying a thing
Hoping the changes would take by working their way from the outside in
I was in love with an idea
Preoccupied with how a life should appear
Spending my time at the surface repairing holes in the shiny veneer
There are so many ways to hide
There are so many ways not to feel
There are so many ways to deny what is real

And I just showed up
for my own life
And I'm standing here taking it in and it sure looks bright

I'm going to live my life inspired
Look for the holy in the common place
Open the windows and feel what is honest and real
until I'm truly amazed
I'm going to feel all my emotions
I'm going to look you in the eyes
I'm going to listen and hear until its finally clear
and it changes our lives

Wow, this is how I feel.....like I just showed up and I'm loving this journey I'm on. God is revealing so many things to me. He has taken a broken life like mine and restored it full circle with the wonderful life I have now. I thank God for all He has done in my life.