Trouble Won’t Go

Trouble won’t go and peace won’t stay
Oceans roar, levees break
Trouble won’t go and peace won’t stay
Bridges fall, earth gives way

Ain’t no refuge but You my God
Ain’t no safe place but in Your arms
Ain’t no refuge but You my God
Ain’t no safe place but in Your arms
I’m gonna be still
I’m gonna be still

Trouble won’t go and peace won’t stay
Landmines wait where children play
Trouble won’t go and peace won’t stay
In this old world, no safe place

Ain’t no refuge but You my God
Ain’t no safe place but in Your arms
Ain’t no refuge but You my God
Ain’t no safe place but in Your arms
I’m gonna be still
I’m gonna be still

Ain’t no refuge but You my God
Ain’t no safe place but in Your arms
Ain’t no refuge but You my God
Ain’t no safe place but in Your arms
I’m gonna be still
I’m gonna be still

God Will Heal Our Wounds

We want to seek you in our own ways
We’ll fast and we’ll sing
we’ll give for our gain
You’re telling us that it’s not ok
You don’t need another song
You don’t want our empty praise

If we stop loving on our own terms
God will heal our wounds
God will heal our wounds
(repeat)

We want the blessing of the God we made
To live in the privilege
he’ll do what we say
You’re telling us there’s a different way
To seek less for ourselves
to pour out every day

If we stop loving on our own terms
God will heal our wounds
God will heal our wounds
(repeat)

Home, home, home
home where the fasting that you seek
Is breaking chains, breaking free
Home, home, home
home where the songs that we sing
Move the ground underneath

Home, home, home
home where the worship that you seek
Feeds the hungry, the ones in need
Home, home, home
home where love that we seek
Is growing gardens, fixing streets

Is growing bridges, planting trees
Is digging wells for all to drink
Is finding light for us to see
Is building trust between you and me
Is building strength and family

If we stop loving on our own terms
God will heal our wounds
God will heal our wounds
(repeat)

Brokenness Aside

Will your grace run out
If I let you down
‘Cause all I know
Is how to run

‘Cause I am a sinner
If it’s not one thing it’s another
Caught up in words tangled in lies
But You are a Savior
And You take brokenness aside
And make it beautiful – beautiful

Will You call me child
When I tell you lies
‘Cause all I know
Is how to cry

‘Cause I am a sinner
If it’s not one thing it’s another
Caught up in words tangled in lies
But You are a Savior
And You take brokenness aside
And make it beautiful – beautiful

You make it beautiful
You make it beautiful
You make it beautiful
You make it beautiful

‘Cause I am a sinner
If it’s not one thing it’s another
Caught up in words tangled in lies
But You are a Savior
And You take brokenness aside
And make it beautiful – beautiful

‘Cause I am a sinner
If it’s not one thing it’s another
Caught up in words tangled in lies
But You are a Savior
And You take brokenness aside
And make it beautiful – beautiful

‘Cause I am a sinner
If it’s not one thing it’s another
Caught up in words tangled in lies
But You are a Savior
And You take brokenness aside
And make it beautiful – beautiful

Oh Lord You make it
beautiful – beautiful
Oh Lord You make it
beautiful – beautiful

Reckless Love

Before I spoke a word
You were singing over me
You have been so, so good to me
Before I took a breath
You breathed Your life in me
You have been so, so kind to me

Oh, the overwhelming
neverending reckless love of God
Oh, it chases me down
fights ’til I’m found
leaves the ninety-nine

I couldn’t earn it
and I don’t deserve it
still You give Yourself away
Oh, the overwhelming
neverending, reckless love of God

When I was Your foe
still Your love fought for me
You have been so, so good to me
When I felt no worth, You paid it all for me
You have been so, so kind to me

Oh, the overwhelming
neverending reckless love of God
Oh, it chases me down
fights ’til I’m found
leaves the ninety-nine

I couldn’t earn it
and I don’t deserve it
still You give Yourself away
Oh, the overwhelming
neverending, reckless love of God

There’s no shadow You won’t light up
Mountain You won’t climb up
Coming after me
There’s no wall You won’t kick down
Lie You won’t tear down
Coming after me

There’s no shadow You won’t light up
Mountain You won’t climb up
Coming after me
There’s no wall You won’t kick down
Lie You won’t tear down
Coming after me

There’s no shadow You won’t light up
Mountain You won’t climb up
Coming after me
There’s no wall You won’t kick down
Lie You won’t tear down
Coming after me

There’s no shadow You won’t light up
Mountain You won’t climb up
Coming after me
There’s no wall You won’t kick down
Lie You won’t tear down
Coming after me

Oh, the overwhelming
neverending reckless love of God
Oh, it chases me down
fights ’til I’m found
leaves the ninety-nine

I couldn’t earn it
and I don’t deserve it
still You give Yourself away
Oh, the overwhelming
neverending, reckless love of God

Jesus came to a town in Samaria called Sychar. Tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon. 7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” 11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.” 16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.” 17 “I have no husband,” she replied. Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”

19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”
21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. … 23 A time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”

25 The woman said, “I know that the Messiah (called Christ) is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.” 26 Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.” … 28 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did!”

Reader: The word of the Lord.
Everyone: Thanks be to God.

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“Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” … “The most important one is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” — Mark 12:28-31

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Love your neighbor as yourself.

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Song of Songs 8:8
“We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?”

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“Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace.” – Luke 8:48

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“Go, call your husband and come back.” “I have no husband,” she replied. Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.” – John 4:16-18

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For all our focus on seeing the image of God in the faces and lives beyond our own, I fear that we are failing to see that same image in ourselves.

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‘A procession of angels passes before each person, and the heralds go before them, saying, “Make way for the image of God!”’ — Rabbi Joshua ben Levi (3rd Century CE)

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MIND READING: You assume that you know what people think without having sufficient evidence of their thoughts. “He thinks I’m a loser.”

FORTUNE-TELLING: You predict the future negatively: Things will get worse, or there is danger ahead. “I’ll fail that exam,” or “I won’t get the job.”

LABELING: You assign global negative traits to yourself and others. “I’m undesirable,” or “He’s a rotten person.”

DISCOUNTING POSITIVES: You claim that the positive things you or others do are trivial. “That’s what spouses are supposed to do—so it doesn’t count when they’re nice to me,” or “Those successes were easy, so they don’t matter.”

NEGATIVE FILTERING: You focus almost exclusively on the negatives and seldom notice the positives. “Look at all of the people who don’t like me.”

UNFAIR COMPARISONS: You interpret events in terms of standards that are unrealistic—for example, you focus primarily on others who do better than you and find yourself inferior in the comparison. “She’s more successful than I am,” or “Others did better than I did on the test.”

EMOTIONAL REASONING: You let your feelings guide your interpretation of reality. “I feel depressed; therefore, my marriage is not working out.”

INABILITY TO DISCONFIRM: You reject any evidence or arguments that might contradict your negative thoughts. For example, when you have the thought “I’m unlovable,” you reject as irrelevant any evidence that people like you. Consequently, your thought cannot be refuted.

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Link to all 17 Categories of Distorted Automatic Thinking.

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Link to Megan’s articles at seedbed.com.

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“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What!? You too!? I thought I was the only one.” – C.S. Lewis

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“Do you see the baby? Is she your friend?” I asked Sweet Girl. She cooed and gurgled in response as she gazed at her reflection in the mirror. “Be good to the baby, Sweet Girl,” I whispered in her ear, “because that’s my baby.”

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“Be good to the baby, Little Man, because that’s my baby. And he is so deserving of being good to.”

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1) Take some time and reflect on your thought-life about yourself. Does it align with Christ’s high view of you? Which procession are you listening to? Pray and journal about what Jesus says about you.

2) Schedule a coffee with a friend or with your spouse or partner and share what you’ve discovered.

Home Tonight

I’ve come to my senses
How did I get so far from home
The lies dissipating
Revealing I’m so alone
And I remember now how strong love can be
And I wonder how did I ever leave

Burn your fire on the altar
Leave a candle on the porch
I’m still too far away to see it
But I’m aching for its warmth

And I’m so tired and cold
and dark and lonesome
But still I hear your song inside
So sing it louder
if you want me home tonight
Sing it loud now
’cause I’m comin’ home tonight

This isn’t the first time
I’ve wandered away from home before
You’d have every reason
To slam and dead-bolt the door

But I remember now
how strong Your love can be
And I wonder how
You might welcome me

Burn your fire on the altar
Leave a candle on the porch
I’m still too far away to see it
But I’m aching for its warmth

And I’m so tired and cold
and dark and lonesome
But still I hear your song inside
So sing it louder
if you want me home tonight
Sing it loud now ’cause I’m comin home

Tonight into your arms, to my back yard
Where I used to play
How I miss the days

So burn your fire on the altar
Leave a candle on the porch
I’m still too far away to see it
But I’m aching for its warmth

And I’m so tired and cold
and dark and lonesome
But still I hear your song inside
So sing it louder
if you want me home tonight
Sing it loud now
’cause I’m comin’ home tonight

Amazing Grace

Amazing grace – How sweet the sound
Amazing love – Now flowing down
From hands and feet
That were nailed to the tree
As grace flows down and covers me

It covers me
It covers me
It covers me – it covers me

Amazing grace – How sweet the sound
Amazing love – Now flowing down
From hands and feet
That were nailed to the tree
As grace flows down and covers me

It covers me
It covers me
It covers me – it covers me

It covers me
It covers me
It covers me – it covers me