You are the light, The light of the world.. Let me shine you, Lord

We are the people of God

The sons and the daughters of love

forgiven, restored, and redeemed

We're living our lives to the praise of our King

We are the ones who will shine

His light in the darkness of night

the hopeless, the broken, the poor -

They will be hopeless and broken no more

You are the Light, The light of the world

and we shine you, Lord

You are the Light, The light of the world

Let ME shine you, Lord

We shine like stars in the universe

Proclaiming the hope of Our God

to the sons and daughters of all the earth

-- We shine you, Lord

To the ones who are weary

the burdened and suffering

We shine you Lord

(let me shine you, Lord)

I have been praying. I have been receiving answers. - I want my passion back. I want to live for other people again. its quite lonely when I am focusing on myself. I want to be a missionary and I think I wanna do it soon. Papa Ron, from Uganda, helped ignite my passion but more specifically - restore some faith to my heart. Sometimes, I feel like my prayers fall on deaf ears and that makes me frustrated. I understand how easy it is to just give up praying when that happens. And I had - but Papa Ron spoke life into me again. I love life. and to be completely honest, the reason for living is outside me. C.S lewis said that if we cannot fill the desires of the world the only other logical reasoning would be that we are not of this world. It is only reasonable to need the one who created us. Its like trying to work a machine without the manual - you'll get some of it working but you'll never know the full potential unless we read the manual. I truly believe that God is our manual. Doing it sans God is so so much harder. Its so exhausting. If I were to put a picture to how i've felt this past year and a half it would be thirsty. Walking through a desert land, dying of thirst. Its like my explorer. I realized that I hadn't changed the oil in 15,600 miles. Which apparently is really bad, haha. But once I got it changed, it ran - so quietly, so happy, not so rough - it wasn't thirsty anymore. I want to get an oil change. its been a couple thousand miles too long.

As soon as I am no longer thirsty and getting my information from the one who so lovingly created me, I can finally have enough energy to help those like me. to SHINE his love. Because thats what a thirsty world needs.

--Jackie