On Friday, June 27^th, 2008, I was having a difficult time with just the junk in my life. I’d become far too focused on what I needed and was not getting, much like my two year old!  Anyway, knowing this wasn’t helpful; I began to put it in its place with some worship time.  I picked up my Bible and read Ps 73 which I’d read many times before.  But, as I read in the NLT, I began to notice what David was saying;  he’d become so obsessed with what was wrong with his life, he’d forgotten how big God is!  He was so upset that the wicked were prospering and he was struggling, that he lost sight of where he belonged.  In verse 21, he says “then I realized how bitter I’d become, how pained I had been by all I had seen…(v 22) I must have seemed like a senseless animal to you. (v23) Yet I still belong to you; you are holding my right hand.”  I got the message loud and clear…like David I was focusing on the wrong things and became bitter and senseless!  But God still covered me with his infinite grace, showing me that he’d not left me, but was still holding me despite my fit!  At this point, I was overwhelmed with just life in general.  We’d just finished shooting the music video for Hold On (to Love) and we knew that we’d be doing some press stuff, just not to what extent yet.  At the same time, my 2 year old daughter was potty training.  This is crucial because when God gives me revelation, it often comes in the midst of my struggle, but doesn’t necessarily take it away.  I just have to learn to deal with those struggles differently; according to what new thing he has shown me.  So, in keeping with this fashion of speaking to me, the Lord gives me the scripture and the revelation of my own bitterness, and then allows my little girl to pee on the floor of my living room.  As I make my way over to clean it up (thank heaven for hard floors and Clorox wipes!), I begin to sing the bridge of the song I Belong to Him, “when the rain is pouring down, and I can hardly stand my ground, he comes to me, hold on to me, and says I’ll never leave….”  After that, I had a full song in about 20 minutes!  Since then, I never miss an opportunity to write whatever song God puts on my heart, even if it means waking up in the middle of the night or writing while I’m taking out the trash or cleaning up after my children!  What became a very poignant song for me, followed by great revelation, was also rooted in the most ordinary of circumstances.  If you have children or pets, you’ve had to clean up stuff you never would have without them.  At the same time, you’re blessed by their presence in your life!  I hope I can always stay rooted in the ordinary things of life, not get overwhelmed by my own selfishness, and not miss the astonishing things that God allows me to be part of everyday!