Random pieces of gladness

Today is the first day of July! That's craziness..!

For the past half hour I've had a little time to relax in God's presence and it's been so wonderful I wanted to write about it:) Especially bc it's been awhile.
Right now..I feel so great. This is one of those moments when I feel LOVED by God, and cared for and I KNOW I'm taken care of.

The beginning of this week I felt really terrible still.. I don't know why, couldn't put my finger on it but I was just pretty depressed..=/ I'm not one hundred percent better but I feel OKAY because I know God's with me. Right now. In this moment. I KNOW it. It's moments like this that I don't ever want to end. I want to just freeze it, and never leave this feeling. I'm afraid to do anything else because I don't want to lose it. I don't want to forget it again and go back to that feeling of being "lost".
I was playing the top 25 songs played on my ipod playlist and I realized they are all really great worship songs about God's character. So I've been sitting with my Bible for a while just worshiping who God is and soaking it up.

In Christ alone my hope is found,
He is my light, my strength, my song;
this Cornerstone, this solid Ground,
firm through the fiercest drought and storm.
What heights of love, what depths of peace,
when fears are stilled, when strivings cease!
My Comforter, my All in All,
here in the love of Christ I stand.

I love the verses from the song "In Christ Alone"

God is my comforter and my All in All.

What a relief it is to rest in that statement.

I have a passage of Psalm 16 from the message hanging on my wall and I haven't actually read it in forever but I did tonight. I love the beginning:

"Keep me safe, O God, I've run for dear life to you. I say to God, "Be my Lord!" Without you, nothing makes sense."

Without God in my life, NOTHING makes sense.. nothing.

I was also reading through psalms 61-66ish...they're all SO good. =)

I wish I could stay in this "place" forever...



In devotions this week, one if the staff talked about a sermon she heard about the "ways we should know God". There is a long list and I'm going to try to go deeper in each one this summer. (I feel like I'll get a lot more out of it that way) This is the list:

1. Comforter in Sorrow
2. My Hope
3. Wonderful Counselor
4. Strength of my Salvation
5. Faithful and True
6. Our Father
7. A Sure Foundation
8. My Friend
9. Almighty God
10. God who avenges me
11. God who saves me
12. Our Guide
13. Our Help
14. Our Life
15. Mediator
16. Our Peace
17. My Help

How amazing that God can be so much...and He's even MORE than this! He's more than we'll EVER know! That's big.

"Blessed be God, Who has not rejected my prayer nor removed His mercy and loving-kindness from being [as it always is] with me." Psalm 66:20