Wanting the ‘Best’

04 Aug 2011 1 Comment

by toyacam in Learning, Living

The purpose of a journey is to move forward. To migrate continuously to a set place or destination. Throughout our journey, there are many experiences that can make tremendous impacts on our lives. We have the power to choose whether these experiences will propel us further along the journey, stagnate us in one place, or send us spiraling backward toward the place we began.

I have come to realize that any experience that makes an impact on my life can be used to bring clarity, perspective, and determination. It is in the moments where my path seems to take the ugliest turn that I draw even closer to the hope and belief that I’m heading in the right direction. I lean hard on my God and trust that my journey is in His hands.

Below are lyrics to a song that has meant a lot to me in trying times. I hope that you can find meaning in it as well.

‘What If Your Best’ by FFH   (see it performed here)

I’m trying hard to keep from falling off this wheel

Trying hard to keep so still as you are shaping and remaking

Something new is bound to surface, something bound to bring you fame

Something sure to make you great

Something you can use, but I am only clay

And clay doesn’t get to choose

I want your best, but what if your best is brokenness

Would I be broken?

I want your best, but what if it’s less than what I asked and what I’m hoping

What if your best is here in the waiting, here in the going through the motions

I’ll still be trusting all I am, and all I have, and nothing less to potter’s hands

I’m trying hard to keep from giving you advice

It’s like teaching Shakespeare how to write

or Monet the way to paint another scene

but there’s just something and it’s amateur the things

that my opinion’s what you need on how to work in me

But I am only clay and clay probably shouldn’t speak

I want your best, but what if your best is brokenness

Would I be broken?

I want your best, but what if it’s less than what I asked and what I’m hoping

What if your best is here in the waiting, here in the going through the motions

I’ll still be trusting all I am, and all I have, and nothing less…

So take my life and let it be consecrated just to thee

Take my voice and let me sing for you my king

Take my moments and my days, let them flow in ceaseless praise

for you, always, for you

I want your best, but what if your best is brokenness

Would I be broken?

I want your best, but what if it’s less than what I asked and what I’m hoping

What if your best is here in the waiting, here in the going through the motions

I’ll still be trusting all I am, and all I have, and nothing less…

Only here for you to mold, I’m holding on, cause I belong…

In potter’s hands.

If you feel that life has left you “broken” at times, make comments below on how you have dealt with those trying times.