Make sure you never refuse to listen:

..."My heart has been touched by Your Spirit, O Lord
Your Love is an all consuming fire...
We have been placed with the spirits of the saints
who have been made perfect...To Jesus who is mediator
bringing a new covenant, a blood of purification which
pleads more insistantly than Abel's
Make sure you never refuse to listen when He speaks"...
(Heb.12,22-29)

Why dear Lord:

Why is it Lord, I cannot capture You in all the places and faces one is told
we might expect to find You...
Why is it that within a beautiful ornate dwelling, there I cannot find You
Why is it within the noble and wise and all those who hold mighty stations,
I cannot see You...
Why is it that only in a little flower...in the tiny shaft of light,warming and illuming all that may be grand in the eyes of the world...The smallest creature, the humblist soul...How am I able to see You so clearly in all these things and only these things?
I trust You will not give me wealth as the world holds wealth, You will not surround my life with things that hide Your face from me, for no beautiful jewel could excites this heart, as You excite it Lord!
One thing do I desire, to dwell forever, in Your house O Lord, forever in Your house I ask to dwell,to strive my whole life long to make You known so too that others'may be drawn, as I have been drawn to dwell in Your house O Lord wherever Your dwelling may be!

Be still my soul; the Lord is at your side:

Be still my soul, the Lord is on your side
Bear patiently the cross of grief and pain
cleave to your God to order and provide
in every change He faithful will remain
Be still my soul your best, your Hevenly
Friend...Through ways leads to a joyful end.

Be still my soul, your God will undertake
To guide the future as He has the past
Your hope your confidence let nothing shake
All now mysterious shall be bright at last.
Be still my soul, the waves and wind still know
His voice who ruled them while He dwelt below.

Be still my soul, when dearest friends depart
And all is darkened in the vale of tears.
Then still you better know His love, His heart
Who comes to soothe your sorrow and your fears.
Be still my soul, your Jesus can repay
From His own fullness all He takes away.

Be still my soul, the hour is hasning on
When we shall be for ever with the Lord...
When disappointment, grief and fear are gone,
Sorrow forgot, love's purest joys restored...
Be still my soul, when change and tears are past,
All safe and blessed we shall meet at last xxx

There is one thing I ask of the Lord:

"There is one thing I ask of the Lord,
For this I long...To live in the house
of the Lord all the days of my life...
To savour the sweetness of the Lord,
to behold His temple.......
Examine me Lord, try me, O test my
heart and mind...For Your love is
before my eyes and I will walk according
to Your Truth..."
psalms 26.v.4, Ps 25.v.2-3)

You are here:

Lord You are always here.
You more than any know my failings
But You more than any,love me despite
of them...that I know, You are here.
Sometimes You correct me, and in those times
you see just how sad my heart becomes.
Not because of Your correction but those failings
touch Your heart, wounding You...all that I most love.
When I can't see You, when I can't touch You,
the pain is immence but You are here.
One day there will be no more separations, no more tears...
Just peace because before me, all around me, above me,
below me...I will whisper, You will whisper...
You are here xxx

I see You in everything, everything holds You looking back:

I hear You in the wind
I experience You in the stillness
I see the sunrise and inside You elevate
my spirit to reach out to You, ever forward.
I feel You in the raindrops in the
gentle, tiny raindrops...Stretching out
to grasp one...Nothing but a raindrop,
yet it feeds and brings forth life.
I see You in the clouds, how this heart
would wish to be above the clouds but even
there You are not seen...You are closer still.
I see You in the rainbow, as it majestically
bows across the earth, how it makes my heart
leap with joy...I hear all the promises it contains
from Your WORD alone.
I experience You in the little flowers, their perfume
gives out a praise of thanksgiving for their being.
I see you in the majestic cedar, reaching tall to Heaven
I see You in all suffering...When a heart before me is
broken with suffering...Lord help me, how my heart touches
You in touching them!
Jesus no longer do I just see but in all things I see You looking back.

Lord, just what You give me:

Never a look beyond me
out of my little sphere, if I could fill another, God would not keep me here.
Only to take what He gives me, meek as a little child...
Questioning nought of that reason, joyful or reconciled.
Only to do what He bids me, patiently gladly today.
Taking no thought for the morrow, leaning on Him all the way.
Only to watch in the working, lest I should miss His smile,
only to still earth's voices, watching for His all the while.
Only to look at Him ever, only to sit at my Lords feet...
All that He sayeth to do it, there shall my life be complete.