"Will You take Me as I am?"
By: Lecrae

[Talking]
Christ through faith
I talked to a cat the other day
And he was like;
"Man I really wanna come to Christ
But I gotta clean my life up first, get my sins together"
I told em, I used to think that way too
I thought I had to change myself before I could come to Christ
But Christ changed me
Let me tell you my story, it starts like this

[Verse One]
It's 5:46 in the mornin', tossin' and turnin'
Chest burnin', sermons in my head keep reocurrin'
Havin' visions in my head of a kid
Cryin' at the feet of the Father, for all the wrong things that he did
Now I'm sweatin' in my sheets can't sleep
My mind keeps tellin' me I'm six feet deep
Don't remind me, even though I'm still alive I can't tell
The way I'm living my life I feel I'm going to hell
God they telling me I should accept you
That you had to leave the world, cause the world left you
Reason I can't change, like a mystery to me
So I make believe there really is a heaven for a G
Even though they say you loved the world so much, you shed ya blood
God I feel I'm too messed up for love
They tell me come as I am but I smell like smoke
My whole life's full of sin cause it's all I know
The bible told me that you died for my sins
If I believe in Christ, it'll save me from the end
But I'm scared to ask you, to save me my heart
So evil, I got thoughts, that's full of hatred hurtin' people
I thought at first I had to clean up my life
Now I'm hearin' I just need to cling to the light
I'm ready to do it, but Lord I pray you understand
My life is a mess, will you take me as I am

[Chorus]
Will you take me as I am
I know the way I'm living is wrong
But I can't change on my own, trying to make it alone
I wonder, how could you love me when my life so ugly
But you came down and died for me

Will you take me as I am
I know the way I'm living is wrong
But I can't change on my own, trying to make it alone
I wonder, how could you love me when my life so ugly
But you came down and died for me
Will you take me as I am

[Verse Two]
I'm sick and tired of trying to me the man, my daddy never taught me to be
I'm grown up now, life ain't what I thought it would be
I made many mistakes in my past I can't fix
Now I'm staring at this crucifix tatted on my wrist
Is it true what they telling me, am I just crazy
Did ya bleed on the cross, for my sins to save me
But why would ya die for me
My whole life I've been working for Satan, while He fed lies to me
And now I'm hearing too much, trying to get a true touch
Of a love that can change me, I'm all screwed up
Figure Hell is what I deserve
But your word says we all fall short so I guess we all outta burn
Teach me I wanna learn
How you could save a wretch like me, before death says it's my turn
I think I finally understand
No matter my past, you'll still take me as I am

[Chorus]

[Verse Three]
My father had a few last words to give
I be telling people the reason to live
The reason to die, united with the King in the sky
This life is passing us by, I got no reason to lie
You'll never give the world enough, they'll hunger for more
They figure there ways are nuthin to the wondrous lord
More security than the man that left you
More love than the moms who kept you
He'll always accept you
Be everything your supposed to
Let Christ rule ya heart, mind, body and soul cause He chose you
And if the world don't know you
It don't matter you're Gods child and he'll never disown you
Ya purpose on earth is far from worthless
That's why ya glorified like ya life's been purchased
And it don't matter if the world don't seen us
We still mean the world to Jesus

[Chorus]

[Talking]
Yeah, we're saved by grace through faith
It's not works
Ain't nuthin you can do, ain't nuthin I can do
That could get us this grace salvation that we got man
It's only Christ
So if you feel like you gotta clean yourself up
Before you can come to Him
Forget it
Just come to Him
He'll take you as you are, and he'll change YOU
From the inside, out

My Favorite Blogs

Ok well I've just come to accept the fact that I am not a blogger. I pretty much stink at it and I think I'll just have to revert back to my original reason for creating this blog: to read other peoples blogs. Therefore I will stress no longer over having nothing good to write about and constantly staring at this screen feeling guilty about not posting anything worth reading.

However, even though I am not good at blogging I happen to know some people who are and I am going to use this opportunity to give a little shout out to a few blogs that I love reading on a regular basis.

First up is a blog that I just recently found through Mrs. Jennifer's blog, it's called Stuff Christians Like. I've spent hours reading through all of this guys posts. They're all pretty funny and they usually end up having a good point and are definitely worth reading. One of my favorites is Refusing To Let People Borrow Your Pen in Church.

The next blog I want to mention is Mrs. Jennifer's blog, Life With the Stanfords. Even if you don't know the Stanfords I think you would still enjoy reading this blog because Mrs. Jennifer is a really great writer and her blogs are usually light hearted and full of humor. She also has another blog on blogspot called Exceeding, Abundantly. This blog is more ummm spiritual... cliche, I know, but I can't think of how else to quickly describe it... and hey, we've already decided I'm not a great writer right? Anyway go check out both blogs and I can guarantee you'll be blessed by reading them.

One other blog I'd like to tell you about is Day By Day, a blog by one of my dearest friends, Lydia. She posted a blog recently entitled "Girls..." which I would encourage all girls, young or old, (and ofcourse guys are always welcome) to read. It's about modesty and how modesty means more than not wearing bikinis or really tight clothes but it's about how you act and stuff. Please go read it and then tell your friends to read it. It really is eye opening and thought provoking.

The last blog for today is a blog by another dear sister of mine, Abundant Grace by Naomi (Lydia's sister). Her first post entitled "It Covers Me" is my personal favorite as she shares her struggles with feeling like a failure because of sin and yet that being the very place God wants us to be, that place where we face the reality that we're helpless without Him.

ok well these are just a few of the blogs that I follow. If you know of any good blogs please post a comment and let me know! Have a blessed afternoon!

Unashamed Love

Good afternoon fellow bloggers!
Well I am posting this because the blog police (mrs. jennifer) told me I needed to post something new lol. I'd love to be more faithful with my blog posting but so many things seem to get in the way... lately my life has been so crazy busy that I'm lucky to have enough time to just sit down at the computer long enough to check my email and facebook every day. But then when I do have time to post something I can't ever come up with anything I feel is worth writing about.... or worth you taking the time to read...
Ok well excuses aside here I am, once again, staring at the computer screen, trying to think of something worthwhile to write about.... and I'm coming up with nothing....

*10 min later*

still nothing....
ok well for the sake of writing something I guess I'll post the lyrics to a song we sang last night that's one of my most favorite songs ever. It's called "Unashamed Love". The lyrics are simple but they've come to mean so much to me.

You're calling me to lay aside the worries of my day
To quiet down my busy mind and find a hiding place
Worthy, Worthy

I open up my heart and let my spirit worship Yours
I open up my mouth and let a song of praise come forth
Worthy, You are worthy

Of a child-like faith
And of my honest praise
And of my unashamed love
Of a holy life
And of my sacrifice
And of my unashamed love

To me it's the perfect song to sing on a Wednesday night because it starts with calling me to forget all the business of my week. All the deadlines and meetings and places I need to go and things I need to do... All the stuff that I get so caught up in as the week goes on. It's telling me to forget those things, to lay them aside so I can focus on God. On the things that really matter. And then once we can lay down all the things that usually clog up our brains and our hearts we are able to worship Him. To truly worship Him. To have that child like faith and give Him our honest praise... because that's what God wants.

Ok well I just wanted to share that song with y'all.
I have to go now because I need to shower and stuff before I head off to dance. I hope you all have a blessed afternoon!

Heavy Heart

I've heard of having a "heavy heart" but before this weekend I never knew you could actually physically feel having a heavy heart. I don't feel like giving details but I've just had allot on my mind lately and I realized this morning that I just have this heavy feeling inside of me. During church this morning I had a hard time focusing.

This past weekend allot of stuff has gone down.. it's had some good moments... one of the major highlights was my sisters party where I was able to hang out with some of my friends and I especially enjoyed talking with my friend Lydia. I always feel encouraged after talking with her. I also enjoyed hangin out Saturday night with my brother-Josh, his girlfriend-Brittany, and one of both Josh and I's good friends-Joey. However some other things have gone on and it has kinda got me thinking allot....

If I were to write everything I want to I'd be writing for days and you would be bored out of your mind. So I guess I mainly wrote this blog to let you know that I'm struggling and I would appreciate your prayers.

ok well I've got a long day in front of me tomorrow and an assignment I just found out about thats due tomorrow at 8am so I should probably get off now. I hope all of you have a blessed week.
In Christ,
Hannah

Cell Phones (updated!!!)

so I got my new phone a few days ago and it is stinkin awesome!! I ended up getting the AT&T Tilt. I don't have a picture of it but it's a pretty good size and its black/silver. I'm planning to get a red case for it though because I really wanted a red phone (to match my purse-ofcourse!! lol) but the tilt only came in black/silver. Ok well for those of you interested I will now expand on a few things that I like/dislike about the Tilt.

pros:
--Ok well the thing I like the most about the Tilt is the full "qwerty" keyboard. It's so easy to type on and the buttons are very easy for me to use.
--Coming in at a close second to the keyboard is the set up of the viewing of text messages. Instead of having to go from your outbox to your inbox to view texts exchanged between you and a friend, all the texts (sent and recieved) from one person are all together on one screen like an instant message. It's allot easier to keep up with conversations (especially if you're talking with more than one person at a time like I do).
--obviously the touchscreen is great, making it very easy to navigate
--the sound is great as well as the screen's resolution


cons:
--the camera is not very good. now i realise it is a phone but i thought having 3mps would give me better photos than it has
--when I'm typing there tends to be a delay between the time i type a word and when it atually shows up on the screen. nothing major, just something that takes a lil extra time.
--it doesnt always deliver my emails to me on time but that may be something I can adjust

ok well this is all I can think of for now. Over all the phone is really great and I'd reccomend it to anyone. Ok well thanks to everyone who gave me advice or just listened to me talk about it lol.
I hope you all have a blessed night!
Always In Christ,
Hannah

Hey Guys!!
well I'm in desperate need of a new cell phone and I have no idea what I should get.

I've pretty much narrowed it down to either the Samsung Blackjack II, Palm Centro, or the BlackBerry Curve. I also love the Blackberry Pearl but I've heard from allot of people that it's a terrible phone so I pretty much elliminated that option.

I'm pretty ignorant about phones and technology in general (to an extent anyways) so any advice would be much appriciated!
Ok well I hope ya'll have a wonderful evening!
Much love in Christ,
Hannah

Blogs

Hey guys!
Just wanted to thank y'all for reading my blogs and commenting on them! I appreciate it!

Anyways I was writing this because I'd really like to know about more peoples blogs. If any of y'all know of blogs that are really good or blogs of people I know please let me know by leaving the URL in a comment on this blog.

Ok well I hope all of y'all have a great day and may the joy of the Lord be your strength!

Spread the Stupidity...

Only in America....

Only in America .....do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

Only in America .....do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke.

Only in America .....do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.

Only in America .....do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.

Only in America .....do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.

Only in America .....do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.

Only in America .....do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.




EVER WONDER....

Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?

Why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed?

Why don't you ever see the headline 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?

Why is 'abbreviated' such a long word?

Why is it that doctors call what they do 'practice'?

Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?

Why is the man who invests all of your money called a broker?

Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?

Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?

Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?

Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?

You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?!

Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?

Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?

If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?

If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?



Church Bulletin Mishaps
These are real church bulletin mishaps... letters left off the end of the word... bad wording.. etc
*this is not in anyway meant to be offensive

- The cost for attending the Fasting and Prayer Conference includes meals.

- The sermon this morning :"Jesus walks on Water." The sermon tonight: "Searching for Jesus."

- Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those things
not worth keeping around the house. Bring your husbands.

- The peacemaking meeting scheduled for today has been canceled due to a conflict.

- Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our community. Smile at someone who is hard to love. Say "Hell" to someone who doesn't care much about you

- Don't let worry kill you off- let the church help.

- Miss Charlene Mason sang "I Will Not Pass this Way Again" giving obvious pleasure to the congregation.

-For those of you who have children and don't know it..., we have a nursery downstairs.

-Next Thursday there will be tryouts for the choir. They need all the help they can get.

-The Rector will preach his farewell message, after which the choir will sing: "Break Forth into Joy"

-Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married October 24th in the church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days.

- At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be "What is Hell?" Come
early and listen to the choir practice.

-Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of several new members and the deterioration of some older ones.

- Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children

- Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person you want remembered.

- The church will host an evening of fine dining, super entertainment, and gracious hostility

- Potluck supper Sunday at 5:00PM - prayer and medication to follow.

- The ladies of the church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.

- This evening at 7:00PM there will be hymn singing in the park across from the church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin.

- Ladies Bible Study will be held Thursday morning at 10:00AM. All ladies are invited to lunch in the Fellowship Hall after the B.S. is done.



Things i've learned while living in Louisiana:

1. Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.

2. There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live in LOUISIANA.

3. There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in LOUISIANA plus a couple no one's seen before.

4. If it grows - it sticks; if it crawls - it bites.

5. Onced and twiced are words.

6. It is not a shopping cart; it is a buggy.

7. Fire ants consider your flesh as a picnic.

8. People actually grow and eat okra.

9. Fixinto is one word

10. There is no such thing as 'lunch'. There is only dinner and then there is supper.

11. Ice tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you're two. We do like a little tea with our sugar!

12. Backards and forwards means 'I know everything about you.'

13. Jeet? is actually a phrase meaning 'Did you eat?'

14. You don't have to wear a watch because it doesn't matter what time it is. You work until you're done or it's too dark to see.

15. You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH them.




YOU KNOW YOUR FROM LOUISIANA IF:

1. You measure distance in minutes.

2. You've ever had to switch from 'heat' to 'A/C' in the same day.

3. You use 'fix' as a verb. Example: 'I'm fixing to go to the store '

4. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal.

5. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.

7. You carry jumper cables in your car...for your OWN car.

8. You only own two spices: Tony's and Tabasco.

9. The local papers cover national and international news on one page but require 6 pages for local gossip and sports.

10. You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.

11. You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit 'a little warm'.

12. You know all four seasons: Deer Season, Duck Season, Crawfish Season, Summer.

13. You know whether another LOUISIANIAN is from, north or south as soon as they start talking.

14. Going to Wal-mart is a favorite past time known as "goin' Wal-martin'" or "off to Wally World."

15. You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good gumbo weather.

16. A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola or pop...it's a Coke, regardless of brand or flavor. Example: "What kinda coke you want?" "Dr. Pepper."

17. Fried catfish is the other white meat.

18. We don't need driver's ed...if our mama says we can drive, we can drive.

hope you enjoyed these! Have a great night!