Three things from yesterday:

…watching eager little hands reach into grocery bags, making it feel like Christmas and not just another grocery trip.

…a beautiful afternoon, perfect for an hour at the playground.

…a baby cuddled up with his daddy every evening; a daddy cuddled up with his boy every chance he gets.

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It started as just a song stuck in my head; it’s turned into a point of conviction and an opportunity to grow.

We are supposed to be growing in this walk of faith. His goal is to transform us into the image of His Son, bringing us from faith to faith. And that’s fine with us — sometimes. On paper. In theory, from the pulpit on Sunday.

But in reality?

Is it just me, or do others find thoughts running through their minds:

This is what works for us in our marriage, and that’s how it is.

I’ll never change.

Of course, those are the big things. Then there are the little thoughts we have all day long that paint us into a corner, that leave God out of the equation. It’s so easy to live life based on the truth that we can see, forgetting that with God, there’s a whole other realm of Reality that we can experience.

And so I’ll keep singing today, letting the Lord confront all of my human vows and judgments, bringing me repentance and the reminder that He is so much greater than I give Him credit for:

I have made You too small in my eyes
O Lord, forgive me;
And I have believed in a lie
That You were unable to help me.
But now, O Lord, I see my wrong
Heal my heart and show Yourself strong;
And in my eyes and with my song
O Lord, be magnified

Be magnified, O Lord
You are highly exalted;
And there is nothing You can’t do
O Lord, my eyes are on You.

I have leaned on the wisdom of men
O Lord, forgive me;
And I have responded to them
Instead of Your light and Your mercy.
But now, O Lord, I see my wrong
Heal my heart and show Yourself strong;
And in my eyes with my song
O Lord, be magnified
O Lord, be magnified.