Higher

Inspired by a track featuring sample from 'Higher' ("Latest Greatest Inspiration" - Teddy Pendergrass) It's still in progress.

Higher (Jennifer Torres)

More than I could have imagined or asked for
More than I even knew to seek
Never thought I deserved something so good
God provided a man that compliments me

Baby the way you lift me up
Makes me feel like I can accomplish anything
Your love for me is the blueprint
For what a real man need to be

You encourage me to dream
By breaking out of the fear
Healing me from wounds I didn't
Realize I had so many years

Nobody but you see me for the real me
And know me like you do
Callin me to task but making me a better person for it
Despite the challenges we been through

Never telling me that something can't be done
Nothing is impossible with you
Working together great things will be accomplished
We can take over

They said things wouldn't last
But now all that drama is in the past
We gotta keep pressin on
And keep on lifting each other up

No one else will do it for us
Since we're the head and not the tail
God promised a happily ever after
In this fairy tale

Letter of Thanks

Just came across my old online journal and this entry stood out... I think I knew I would need to hear this later when I wrote it 8 years ago... Even before I moved out, before I was married, before we started a church, before a WHOLE LOT of stuff in my life changed...

Jen

Thursday, May 4, 2000

Today the jovenes wrote letters thanking God for all the positive things in life, so we can look back at it when we are really down. Here is my letter:

Thank You

I know sometimes I so easily forget all the beautiful things you have done for me. You provide so much, so many little things, and the big things. When I get down, please bring all this to my mind.

First of all, thank you for saving me, even though I was rebellious and lacked personal conviction at times. Without you, my life would be meaningless - I would have no drive or purpose.

Thank you for giving me my family, although I become frustrated at times, I see how they support and love me.

Thank you for providing me with the basic needs that not everyone has. I take it for granted that I have a bed to sleep in my own room. I shouldn't complain that it floods, I should be thankful that I have a room to flood :o) I have clean clothes and food each day, and don't have to worry about where my next meal will come from.

And thank you for all the little things you bless me with. I hope I never forget the beauty you send my way - From the huge sunflower growing out of the concrete expressway, to the hundreds of butterflies flying overhead on my way to work and the cloudy, purplish orange sunset on my way home.

Thank you for my friends, who I can confide in and just have fun with. I am fortunate that you have entrusted them to me.

Remind me of all of these things when I am complaining that my room flooded again, or my car broke down, or that my life seems to be falling apart. Show me that through everything, you are there holding it all together.

Love,
Jennie

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38,39