to be known...
What does it mean to be known? This has been something that I've been thinking about a lot lately. At the core of every human being is this desire to be known, to be loved, to be respected. While different people may feel different amounts of those things, it still remains the same for each human being. This may even differ slightly from male to female.
Being in a new place, it can become easy to focus too much on my own wants and desires, one of my biggest ones lately just for people to truly know me. I feel anxious and impatient for the time when my relationships will be deep and we can truly understand each other. However, what about myself, do I search to truly know others? Do I truly allow others to know me? That is a little more difficult.
Each one of us is created for relationship to know people and to be known. However, first and most importantly we are created to know and be known by God. I have been thinking lately about how much God also desires that we know him. He doesn't need us, not in the way we need him. But he wants us. What if my goal was to know God in the ways that I want people to know me? To think the way he thinks? To understand what he loves, to understand the things that break his heart? This same wonderful God knows every bit of me. He knows me more than I know myself.
One of the worship songs I've been singing a lot lately is the more I seek you:
The more I seek you,
The more I find you.
The more I find you,
the more I love you.
I wanna sit at your feet
drink from the cup in your hand.
Lay back against you and breath,
hear your heart beat
This love is so deep,
it's more than I can stand.
I melt in your peace, it's overwhelming
and in spanish:
Yo te busco
y te encuentro
Te encuentro
Y te amo
Me sentare a tus pies
De tu copa tomare
Recostarme y sentir
Tu corazon latir
Profundo amor
No lo puedo expresar
Me deleito en tu paz
me llenas
I love this song, because I think it expresses so beautifully what it is to know God. I love the imagery of the chorus... sitting at his feet, laying against him and breathing, feeling HIS heartbeat. There is something so beautifully intimate about it. You have to be so close to someone to feel their heartbeat. What a beautiful thing that God wants us so close to cover us in his love and peace. Or as the spanish version ends with, "you fill me". And it only gets better. The more we know him, the more we want to know him, the more we find him and the more we love him. I rest in this knowledge of intimately knowing and being known by my Savior.
One of the most best things that I have found here is just the more slow paced life. Yes, I am busy. But I also have time to spend with others and time to spend with God. I have been challenged that this is a time for me to truly grow and to grow closer to the heart of God. To know him in a way beyond what I have before. To daily rely on him to get through my students.
These are some of the things I've been thinking of lately. On a more practical update level, school has been going well. I've definitely had some discouraging moments at school where I've struggled with classroom management. I've also had some really great moments where the students really seemed to enjoy what was going. One of my students wrote me a note that she gave me that said, "You are the best teacher of the world." This made me smile. =) Overall, I think it's going to be a great year, but it will definitely take some practice and I will definitely learn a lot about being a teacher.
I also got to do some fun stuff this weekend. Some of us went to go see the movie Cowboys and Aliens. Then we went to Denny's afterward at like 10:30. It was a lot of fun. It was just a nice "normal" thing for me to do. That's all for today. Till next time!
Being in a new place, it can become easy to focus too much on my own wants and desires, one of my biggest ones lately just for people to truly know me. I feel anxious and impatient for the time when my relationships will be deep and we can truly understand each other. However, what about myself, do I search to truly know others? Do I truly allow others to know me? That is a little more difficult.
Each one of us is created for relationship to know people and to be known. However, first and most importantly we are created to know and be known by God. I have been thinking lately about how much God also desires that we know him. He doesn't need us, not in the way we need him. But he wants us. What if my goal was to know God in the ways that I want people to know me? To think the way he thinks? To understand what he loves, to understand the things that break his heart? This same wonderful God knows every bit of me. He knows me more than I know myself.
One of the worship songs I've been singing a lot lately is the more I seek you:
The more I seek you,
The more I find you.
The more I find you,
the more I love you.
I wanna sit at your feet
drink from the cup in your hand.
Lay back against you and breath,
hear your heart beat
This love is so deep,
it's more than I can stand.
I melt in your peace, it's overwhelming
and in spanish:
Yo te busco
y te encuentro
Te encuentro
Y te amo
Me sentare a tus pies
De tu copa tomare
Recostarme y sentir
Tu corazon latir
Profundo amor
No lo puedo expresar
Me deleito en tu paz
me llenas
I love this song, because I think it expresses so beautifully what it is to know God. I love the imagery of the chorus... sitting at his feet, laying against him and breathing, feeling HIS heartbeat. There is something so beautifully intimate about it. You have to be so close to someone to feel their heartbeat. What a beautiful thing that God wants us so close to cover us in his love and peace. Or as the spanish version ends with, "you fill me". And it only gets better. The more we know him, the more we want to know him, the more we find him and the more we love him. I rest in this knowledge of intimately knowing and being known by my Savior.
One of the most best things that I have found here is just the more slow paced life. Yes, I am busy. But I also have time to spend with others and time to spend with God. I have been challenged that this is a time for me to truly grow and to grow closer to the heart of God. To know him in a way beyond what I have before. To daily rely on him to get through my students.
These are some of the things I've been thinking of lately. On a more practical update level, school has been going well. I've definitely had some discouraging moments at school where I've struggled with classroom management. I've also had some really great moments where the students really seemed to enjoy what was going. One of my students wrote me a note that she gave me that said, "You are the best teacher of the world." This made me smile. =) Overall, I think it's going to be a great year, but it will definitely take some practice and I will definitely learn a lot about being a teacher.
I also got to do some fun stuff this weekend. Some of us went to go see the movie Cowboys and Aliens. Then we went to Denny's afterward at like 10:30. It was a lot of fun. It was just a nice "normal" thing for me to do. That's all for today. Till next time!
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