Deep in her blue eyes
lies a story that many never know
a story marked with heartache, rejection, and fear
though even amidst the shambles, she strives to be enough.
“Be yourself,” but who was she?
Day after day she constructed the image she wanted
others to see, but deep in her heart, she cried,
“This isn’t me!”
Deep in her blue eyes
lies cracks in her superficiality.
She knows her walls have become a prison,
chaining her down to deep rooted insecurity.
She desires more than anything to be validated in her worth
not for who she tries to be, rather for who she truly is.
Deep in her blue eyes
lies the woman she is growing into
still burdened with the images of the girl she used to be.
She lives today expecting the outcome of yesterday
She remains trapped in a cycle of negative thinking
and low expectations.
“Who could love me for me?”
Deep in her blue eyes
lies a turning point
where fear no longer dominates and beauty radiates
Deep in her blue eyes
The World Race encourages and requires living in intentional community with fellow believers all drawn together for the same cause … to make Christ known among the nations!
We won’t just be living together when everything is sunshine and rainbows, the Race is going to be a roller coaster of emotions and experiences. Keeping up the charade of who I think I need to be, to be accepted, is not going to hold up for long.
My fears and my insecurities have kept me from opening up in the past and have caused me to push many away. Letting others in means opening myself up to being hurt and facing who I really am … not who I’ve created myself to be, which has become much easier for me.
For those who have always been there for me,
I hope and pray you’ve seen a change in me …
For those who have only known who I’ve let you see,
I hope and pray that you can truly get to know me …
For those that I have hurt,
I hope and pray that you forgive me …
For those that have hurt me,
I hope and pray that I can move past what has been done to me …
In Christ, I am a new creation, the old has gone,
and in my eyes, I hope you see, Christ in me.
This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person.
The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
2 Corinthians 5:17 (NLT)
This song has a dear place in my heart:
