New Songs

There have been numerous times in my life when I have reached the end of myself.

You know those seasons, which you may define as burnout, grief or endings.

The good part about endings is that there is always a beginning on the other side.  Recently I reached the end of me again,

a result of too much people pleasing...the hazard of being a woman I suppose.  I have to watch that, because when my focus is off God and pleasing people instead, I lose my step.

Then when I get down on my knees and ask for God's Grace He does an amazing thing.

He fills me up with a new song, His song, His purpose, His direction.

I feel like I am filled with new oxygen, new life, and of course new music.

My iPod died yesterday.  Silly, but I cannot live without this wonderful little device.

God is so good. Just in case I might miss the lesson he shows me a parable.

My iPod is filled with the Word of God through podcast sermons, hymns and beautiful Christian contemporary music.

I listen to my iPod when I wake up in the morning, in the car and before I fall asleep.  We heard the dreaded click, click click and saw the little sad face in the window of the iPod.

My husband has a new iPhone, and he remembered that he had an old iPod one just like mine so he deleted the playlists from his ipod, renamed it Karen's Ipod and gave it to me to use.

I have even clothed it with the skin of, my Secret Garden, representing my spiritual garden. I pealed off the skin that I had created with The Secret Garden artwork from the old one and put it on my husband's old one.

As I was about to put the music, podcasts and videos on there, a message appeared warning me that I was about to delete the old playlists and was I sure that I wanted new playlists.

I clicked and accepted the conditions, and watched as the new iPod was filled with new music.

Here I sit recovered from burnout filled with new music as a new vessel,

just like the new iPod filled with a new purpose, holding new music.

I love when God shows me a parable to remind me of His Lesson.

I must always remember to include Him in my decisions through prayer, to ask what His purpose for my life is, to please Him first and then my path will be without the heavy yoke of people pleasing.

Just like my new ipod holds my new music, my heart is filled with God's new song.

Perhaps when we reach that end place, it's good to remember that through it all God is always there to give us a new song.   The Song for this post is Through It All.