Today, on my way to school, I was listening to a song called "Thank You!" by 33 Miles. Sometimes it amazes me how much a song can minister to my heart on any given day. Does anyone else ever get a little off track and not really notice it until a while down the road when you are like, "Dude, what is going on?" I do. I live my life to the extreme in just about everything- life is black or white. So I am constantly having to submit my extremes to the Lord. So I got a little off track in trying to maintain a set of expectations I had set for myself. But then as I was listening to this song I started giggling. All it said was, "Thank You for loving me, Thank You for everything..." Such a simplistic little love song to the Lord, yet it changed my entire perception. There is nothing in this world that will satisfy but the presence of the Lord. Mans words, some number on the scale, a pants size, a stage, grades in school, or any other set of expectations will never satisfy us! We might be temporarily please with ourselves, but do we ever ask what it costs us? Jesus Christ died so that the veil between us and Him could be torn right down the middle... yet when we hold onto our "rights" "rules" and "expectations" we are setting up our own veils between us and Jesus. Sometimes I feel so confused as to what God expects of me. Nothing... because I am not what I do, I am simply His. What propels me to move is Jesus' love on the inside of me, not obligation or rigid rules. Because of God's love my simply response should be, "Thank You for loving me, Thank You for everything..."