The Greatest Kind Of Love

What is this love?

So deep I can hardly comprehend?

For someone such as I,

You would take the time to mend.

This tired and broken soul,

who's tried hard to stay aflame.

You now have made whole.

And I will never be the same.
The rhythm of Your presence,
beats steady in my heart.
Though I may wander,
 we can never be apart.
I can feel You all around me,

Your life is rushing through me,
Your love, it consumes me.

c*c

When I Go Down by Relient K

I really like this song, so I thought I'd put it on here. It's so good, it's like...me, you know? Anyway, here's the best description I found for it. *This is a song about rising from the ashes of an emotionally burned out life. They've been living their life according to their own selfish desires and things seem to be going smoothly, but soon they find that that life's taking them nowhere but down. Really down. Really quickly. So quickly, that before they even know it, they've hit rock bottom. It hurts, but the most painful thing is that they realize that they could have avoided all this if they had just followed God. They just want all this to be over, but "that's not the way it works." No, they've got to admit that they're wrong, and more importantly, to repent and submit to the will of God. And that's the beautiful part. Because even though they've gone and messed things up completely, and have hit the rock bottom, all they have to do is look up and there's Jesus, right next to them, "with open arms, to lift them up again."*

I'll tell you flat out

It hurts so much to think of this

So from my thoughts I will exclude

The very thing that

I hate more than everything is

The way I'm powerless

To dictate my own moods

I've thrown away

So many things that could've been much more

And I just pray

My problems go away if they're ignored

But that's not the way it works

No that's not the way it works

When I go down

I go down hard

And I take everything I've learned

And teach myself some disregard

When I go down

It hurts to hit the bottom

And of the things that got me there

I think, if only I had fought them

If and when I can

Clear myself of this clouded mind

I'll watch myself settle down

Into a place where

Peace can search me out and find

That I'm so ready to be found

I've thrown away

The hope I had in friendships

I've thrown away

So many things that could have been much more

I've thrown away

The secret to find an end to this

And I just pray

My problems go away if they're ignored

But that's not the way it works
No that's not the way it works

Any control I thought I had just slips right through my hands

While my ever-present conscience shakes its head and reprimands me

Reprimands me

Then and there

I confess

I'll blame all this on my selfishness

Yet You love me

And that consumes me

And I'll stand up again

And do so willingly

You give me hope,

And hope it gives me life

You touch my heavy heart,

And when You do You make it light

As I exhale I hear Your voice

And I answer You,

Though I hardly make a noise

And from my lips the words I choose to say

Seem pathetic,

But it's a fallen man's praise

Because I love You

Oh God, I love You

And life is now worth living

If only because of You

And when they say I'm dead and gone

It won't be further from the truth

When I go down

I lift my eyes to You

I won't look very far

Cause You'll be there

With open arms

To lift me up again

To lift me up again