"my hands are holding you..."

You're the God of this city
You're the King of these people
You're the Lord of these nation
You are

You're the light in this darkness
You're the hope to the hopeless
You're the peace to the restless
You are

There is no one like our God
There is no one like our God

For greater things
Have yet to come
And greater things
Are still to be done
in this city

I hear it all the time. Or maybe it just keeps repeating in my head, because I can't remember anymore where I got the reference. A speaker? A conference? A book? A post? A movie?

It asks over and over and mentions things like, what's your Jerusalem? Your..something else. I need to ask Brian Sattler...and I need to stop being reliant on him for answers =/.

Is this a Jerusalem?

"In this city"

I want to have hope, in the great things that -have- come and -have- been done in this 'city.' I want to believe that there -will- be greater things to come. I want to believe, and have courage through that to face the part where these greater things actually 'need to be done.'

It takes so much, Lord.

It takes a lot.

And you never know when the 'happy ending' is. And sometimes the 'happy ending' doesn't happen in this world, or in your lifetime. There are so many things happening meanwhile in each lifetime being lived now.

I need to believe that these 'greater things' are being done.

No matter how close or far they might seem like they are.

I need to believe in the One who does these great things for my 'city.'

I love my family.

..But I need to have hope
and believe, sincerely
even if I have to re-realize it
over and over

that I love my family--

But God, for sure, loves them more.

...

And that is what I'll put my faith in
that everything will be okay.

Take a look at the desert
Do you feel like a grain of sand?
I am with you wherever
Where you go is where I am

And I'm always thinking of you
Take a look around you
I'm spelling it out one by one

I love you more than the sun
And the stars that I taught how to shine

You are mine,

and you shine
for me too

I love you yesterday
and today
And tomorrow,

I'll say it again and again

I love you more.

I believe in something
greater than myself
greater than the self
greater than those
difficulties
that make it hard to see
beyond your self

And my life needs to reflect that.

"And I want you to know
That I'm not letting go

Even when you come undone."