"You Move Me"

10/17/09… Written by my good friend on his blog. Somehow he was able to tap into my soul and write words I somehow could not write…

Monday, September 28, 2009 - "You Move Me"

I have a friend that moved away from this area a while back. But months before he left he searched and searched for GOD's will on what he should do. Everything seemed to point for him to leave, even though he didn't want to. I respected him for doing what he felt GOD wanted to do and not following his own desires though I knew I would miss his words, his help, his friendship, his very presence. So many people think you are supposed to have peace when you are in His will. I disagreed back then and I still do now. We shouldn't put GOD in a box. Anyway, over a year later and nothing seems to have turned out like he hoped...not even how he thought it would. So he wonders..."Was this really Your will? What am I doing here? What have I done? What do I do now?" The only thing he can think of, the only thing he can hold onto that seems right is a book he has written about a short term mission trip a few of us took half way around the world and how it changed him. He readily admits that it would not have been written if he had stayed here. And due to some other issues I won't delve into here, he questions if he should have written it w/such bare honesty. I know what I think...how I feel about it. But who am I to say? All I can say to him is....Walk on...

I know it aches

How your heart it breaks

And you can only take so much

Walk on, walk on

Leave it behind

You've got to leave it behind

Excerpt from U2's "Walk On"

That said, I would still encourage him with some words he has said to me. "Take the risk". He has put himself 'out there', he has done what he thought was right according to what Christ revealed to him at the time. What more can any one of us do? Was he right in the decisions he made and actions he did? How can I answer that? I say "Yes" but again, who am I? I cannot be impartial. But, should anyone ask that question at all? Can anyone ask that question? Should he? What's done is done. It is what it is. All we have is now and our intentions for tomorrow. I do know this: he has inspired me in his ever growing and evolving testimony. He has taken risks. And though he has paid and is paying for those decisions, he was not passive. He moved.

This is how it seems to me

Life is only therapy

Real expensive

And no guarantee

Oh but you move me

You give me courage

I didn't know I had

Oh but you move me

Out of myself and into the fire

You move me

Now I'm burning with love

And with hope and desire

How you move me

You go whistling in the dark

Making light of it

Making light of it

And I follow with my heart

Laughing all the way

Oh 'cause you move me

You get me dancing

and you make me sing

You move me

Now I'm taking delight

In every little thing

How you move me

"You Move Me" by Susan Ashton

Now my brother,

whistle! laugh! sing! dance! rejoice!

2 Corinthians 4:15-18 (NLT)

15 All of this is for your benefit. And as God’s grace reaches more and more people, there will be great thanksgiving, and God will receive more and more glory. 16 That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. 17 For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! 18 So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.

Posted by Zho'u Yu'e at 9:20 PM