It feels like a brand new day. Open your eyes!

Uh oh, two days in a row!!! Now we're talkin'! Or blogging rather. Anyway. 

My friend Jess loves to take pictures. Recently her camera was broken and she needed to send it in to the manufacturer to get fixed. Then we went to the beach this past weekend and she took an absurd amount of pictures!! 

Here's one of them: 

In the car the next day I popped in the new Jars of Clay album and when the song "Two Hands" started playing I just kept thinking about standing there on that rock. Here are the lyrics: 

"I've been living out of sanity

I've been splitting hairs and blurring lines

I am a house that is divided 

In my heart and in my mind

I have a broken disposition 

I'm a liar who thirsts for the truth

And while I ache for faith to hold me

I need to feel the scars and see the proof

And if we just keep digging we can reach the foundation 

Of our souls

And if we just keep cutting all the chains from our hearts 

We'll lose control

And it feels like giving in

It feels like starting over

It feels like waking up, and you know it's coming

It feels like a brand new day

Open your eyes

I use one hand to pull you closer
The other to push you away
If I had two hands doing the same thing
Lifted high, lifted high"

I find in my life that I am continually in that struggle. On the rollercoaster of righteousness. Even with my best intentions I fall short. And I may not glorify God every day, in everything that I do, most times I long for just the opposite. But it is refreshing on those days where I am consumed by grace with both hands lifted high.