"You Move Me"

I have a friend that moved away from this area a while back. But months before he left he searched & searched for GOD's will on what he should do. Everything seemed to point for him to leave, even though he didn't want to. I respected him for doing what he felt GOD wanted to do & not following his own desires though I knew I would miss his words, his help, his friendship, his very presence. So many people think you are supposed to have peace when you are in His will. I disagreed back then & I still do now. We shouldn't put GOD in a box. Anyway, over a year later & nothing seems to have turned out like he hoped...not even how he thought it would. So he wonders..."Was this really Your will? What am I doing here? What have I done? What do I do now?" The only thing he can think of, the only thing he can hold onto that seems right is a book he has written about a short term mission trip a few of us took half way around the world & how it changed him. He readily admits that it would not have been written if he had stayed here. And due to some other issues I won't delve into here, he questions if he should have written it w/such bare honesty. I know what I think...how I feel about it. But who am I to say? All I can say to him is....Walk on...

Walk on, walk on
What you've got they can't deny it
Can't sell it, can't buy it
Walk on, walk on
Stay safe tonight

And I know it aches
And your heart it breaks
And you can only take so much
Walk on, walk on
Home, hard to know what it is if you've never had one
Home, I can't say where it is but I know I'm going home
That's where the hurt is

I know it aches
How your heart it breaks
And you can only take so much
Walk on, walk on
Leave it behind
You've got to leave it behind
All that you fashion
All that you make
All that you build
All that you break
All that you measure
All that you steal
All this you can leave behind
All that you reason
All that you sense
All that you speak
All you dress up
All that you scheme.

excerpt from U2's "Walk On"

That said, I would still encourage him with some words he has said to me. "Take the risk". He has put himself 'out there', he has done what he thought was right according to what Christ revealed to him at the time. What more can any one of us do? Was he right in the decisions he made & actions he did? How can I answer that? I say "Yes" but again, who am I? I cannot be impartial. But, should anyone ask that question at all? Can anyone ask that question? Should he? What's done is done. It is what it is. All we have is now & our intentions for tomorrow. I do know this: he has inspired me in his ever growing & evolving testimony. He has taken risks. And though he has paid & is paying for those decisions, he was not passive. He moved.

This is how it seems to me
Life is only therapy
Real expensive
And no guarantee

So I lie here on the couch
With my heart hanging out
Frozen solid with fear
Like a rock in the ground

Oh but you move me
You give me courage
I didn't know I had
You move me on
I can't go with you
And stay where I am
So you move me

Here is how love was to me
I could look and not see
Going through the emotions
Not knowin' what they mean
And it scared me so much
That I just wouldn't budge
I might have stayed there forever
If not for your touch

Oh but you move me
Out of myself and into the fire
You move me
Now I'm burning with love
And with hope and desire
How you move me

You go whistling in the dark
Making light of it
Making light of it
And I follow with my heart
Laughing all the way

Oh 'cause you move me
You get me dancing
and you make me sing
You move me
Now I'm taking delight
In every little thing
How you move me

"You Move Me" by Susan Ashton


Now my brother,

whistle! laugh! sing! dance! rejoice!



2 Corinthians 4:15-18 (NLT)

¹⁵ All of this is for your benefit. And as God’s grace reaches more and more people, there will be great thanksgiving, and God will receive more and more glory.

¹⁶ That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day.

¹⁷ For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever!

¹⁸ So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.