Love Song

In the powerful film Wendy and Lucy, Wendy is traveling with her dog Lucy from Indiana to Alaska, hoping to get a high paying job in a cannery up there. Not only that, but she seems to be running away from her existing way of life, searching for something far greater. Her journey takes an unwanted detour in a small town in Oregon when her car breaks down and she loses her dog Lucy.

Wendy goes to great lengths to find Lucy: travels throughout the town by foot looking for her, informs the dog pound of her lost dog, eventually puts up posters all over town,and even retraces the steps she took there with Lucy, leaving articles of clothing behind hoping she would recognize them. Throughout all of this you get the sense that Wendy wasn't leaving without her dog, she was persistent in finding her.

So, in what great lengths would you go to in order to find that missing love? Or, more importantly, to find God? To just be with Him?

I've heard it said that a man would swim the ocean

just to be with the one he loves

All of those dreams are an empty notion

it has never been done

Some intriguing lyrics from a Third Day song called Love Song. We all kind of carry on that persona of willing to travel far and wide for that one we love. Going to great lengths to be close to them. The song goes even further with:

Just to be with You

I'd do anything

There's no price I would not pay

Just to be with You

I'd give everything

Oh, I'd give my life away.

Of course here, it is God desiring to be near us. When God says,

"Draw near to Me and I will draw near to you", He literally means it!

Amongst all the busyness that surrounds our daily life, it is important to find time to draw near to Him. But it is equally important to want that desire to be near Him. Find some quiet time to get close to Him this week. We really don't have to travel to the end of the ocean or to the top of a mountain to find Him. He's closer than you think. God loves you and desires to be near you.