It’s a Slow Fade
That’s my little Alyssa. We are best girlfriends forever. She says the funniest things ever. She does the most random and clever things you would swear she was older than 4. She is smarter than anyone could ever believe. She is one of the most beautiful things I have ever laid my eyes on. She has a 100% heart of gold and at such a tender age she has more empathy for others than any adult I know. She never ceases to amaze me… and I only love her more and more each day.
As I get around more young people today- youth, children, babies… I just become more socially aware of the world they are having to grow up in. Its inevitable there will be pain in their life, they will go through questioning, heart ache, depression, fear, and so on. My heart is heavy for them. The youth I see every day is certainly a troubled generation. While I am not ignorant enough not to know that there is a lot of good in the generation. I see the good everyday too and it bothers me when people fail to point the good out. There is a clear and evident pull to the bad though. Its easier to do the wrong thing. But it is so destructible. So to my youth, the children, and babies in my life. I am praying for you. Look to the good because its out there. Be the light in a dark world. I don’t doubt that it will be hard… but…
But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.
2 Corinthians 4:7-9 (NIV)
Slow Fade
Casting Crowns
Be careful little eyes what you see
It’s the second glance that ties your hands as darkness pulls the strings
Be careful little feet where you go
For it’s the little feet behind you that are sure to follow
It’s a slow fade when you give yourself away
It’s a slow fade when black and white have turned to gray
Thoughts invade, choices are made, a price will be paid
When you give yourself away
People never crumble in a day
It’s a slow fade, it’s a slow fade
Be careful little ears what you hear
When flattery leads to compromise, the end is always near
Be careful little lips what you say
For empty words and promises lead broken hearts astray
It’s a slow fade when you give yourself away
It’s a slow fade when black and white have turned to gray
Thoughts invade, choices are made, a price will be paid
When you give yourself away
People never crumble in a day
The journey from your mind to your hands
Is shorter than you’re thinking
Be careful if you think you stand
You just might be sinking
It’s a slow fade when you give yourself away
It’s a slow fade when black and white have turned to gray
Thoughts invade, choices are made, a price will be paid
When you give yourself away
People never crumble in a day
Daddies never crumble in a day
Families never crumble in a day
Oh be careful little eyes what see
Oh be careful little eyes what you see
For the Father up above is looking down in love
Oh be careful little eyes what you see
