Breathtaking.
Apr 15th, 2007 by Kate
This morning I went to the contemporary worship service at Lover’s Lane Untied Methodist Church in Dallas for my second cousin’s baptism. The contemporary service definitely isn’t my scene, I am more partial to the traditional service, but the over all experience wasn’t terrible. They even had free donuts before the service and since I was too tired to get up last Sunday and get some, I stuffed one in my face. (Cute mental image, eh?)
The most amazing part was the experience I had. God took away all my anger and let me know that things are going to be okay. A huge sense of peace and relief came over me. And I’m normally not the kind of person who believes all that crap, but when I get so overwhelmed that it makes me cry, I know something is up.
At the end of the sermon, a video was played with the following poem. It definitely struck a chord in my heart. It definitely coincides with my current situation. The words are so powerful, so real, so deep. It describes what absolute love is- be it the love I have for the Lord or for a significant other, it left me breathless.
Your Words by Amena Brown
For so long I’ve been loving you from a distance
Because I was afraid of your silence
Because your silence speaks to me more deeply than any words could ever say
Because I was afraid of who I would be when I was alone with you
Because I didn’t want to be rejected
For so long I’ve been loving you from a distance
Holding myself hostage to the sound of you
Running away from the thought of you loving me so deeply
That I would lose myself and never be able to find who I used to be
For so long I’ve been trying to love you form a distance
But I can’t even survive without you
You are not only the air I breathe
You are the lungs I breathe with
And without you there is this vacant void
That causes me to collapses at the very center of who I am
And that’s what I mean when I say you’re breathtaking
You cared for me with a gentleness that made me
Want to love you more than I ever thought possible
And I want to give all of my heart to you
Even though I have no idea what that feels like
You love me privately, publicly, lonely, lovely or ugly
And I want to give you the keys to every room in this house I call my heart
And that means nothing is off limits to you
Watch her speak it on Blue Fish TV [dot] com.