Your Love is Extravagant

I just love this song. It is by Casting Crowns on their CD called "Casting Crowns." Some people complain about "love songs to Jesus." I used to agree. This is one of the songs that changed my mind. The words and music draw my heart to His and I don't see anything wrong with that.

Enjoy...

YOUR LOVE IS EXTRAVAGANT

Your love is extravagant
Your friendship, it is intimate
I feel like moving to the rhythm of Your grace
Your fragrance is intoxicating in our secret place
Your love is extravagant

Chorus:
Spread wide in the arms of Christ is the love that covers sin
No greater love have I ever known
You considered me a friend
Capture my heart again

Spread wide in the arms of Christ is the love that covers sin
No greater love have I ever known;
You considered me a friend

Capture my heart again
Your love is extravagant
Your friendship, it is intimate

Remember...

I know that Easter is over, but I don't really want to move on quite yet. I watched the movie The Passion of the Christ the night before Easter. I watched it with my husband, my sister-in-law and my 13-year-old son. It is a difficult movie to watch, however, my sister-in-law and I agreed that we had never been more ready for Resurrection Sunday.

The chosen sacrifice and utter willingness for Jesus to lay down His life for me is something from which I never want to move on. There is an image in the film of Jesus literally crawling to get onto the cross so they can nail Him on. He was being consistently mocked, "If you are the Christ, come down and save Yourself!" Yet He stayed and completed His task of ensuring my entrance into Heaven.

I encourage you to linger with Easter a little while longer...say...a lifetime. Remember what He did and live your life out of that place of love.

The Wisteria is Blooming

A few weeks ago I shared a picture of my wisteria vine and my longings for Spring. As you can see in the picture above, the leaves are out and the blossoms are in full force.

I was thinking about the relative speed with which the leaves and blossoms sprouted...once it was time. When winter is truly over, nature takes its course. For those of us in Winter seasons in our souls, the waiting can be unbearable. Blossoms and green leaves can seem very far away, even impossible. But God is the God of the seasons and Spring does follow Winter. My wisteria vine proves that Spring does come. So...hang in there.

For me, this year feels like a great blossoming after an extremely long winter. I know that it has not been long for God, but to me, it has seemed endless at times. I am grateful to come out of the dormancy and to sprout a few leaves and even some flowers.

For those of us in Spring seasons in our souls, enjoy the new birth and beauty of this time. It is truly a gift from God, our generous Father.

James 1:17-18 - Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.