While I was cleaning my room today (Shannon, stop smiling), I was listening to Lifehouse. I had put in the "No Name Face" CD and began cleaning away. When the song "Breathing" came on, I had to stop and listen to the familiar lyrics. I was just so moved by the honesty in this song. This is a song about someone who gets it. Someone who gets what it means to have intimacy w/ God. I was so convicted as I looked at my prayer life and realized the "grocery list" of requests and concerns I constantly bring to God w/o one second of just sitting in the awesomeness of His presence. For someone whose "love language" is quality time, I have been missing the mark lately when it's come to my own quality time w/ God. In order to have true quality time, it has to go both ways. Yes, God wants me to bring Him the desires of my heart, but He also wants me to sit and listen to His instruction. The chorus of the song says: I am hanging on every word you say And even if you don't want to speak tonight That's alright, alright with me 'Cause I want nothing more than to sit Outside Heaven's door and listen to you breathing Is where I want to be You have to be in close proximity to someone in order to hear them breathing. Your surroundings also need to be somewhat quiet as well. The idea is that there is such longing and such desire to be in God's presence that you just sit and wait until He's ready to speak. What an awesome place to be. There's a since of peace and rest when you can just sit in someone's prescence and not feel like you HAVE to talk. That's when you know you have reached a place of familiarity and intimacy. I want to be this person who just wants to sit in the presence of the Almighty Creator and King and doesn't always come w/ requests, but just be. Psalm 63:1 says " O God, You are my God, earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You, my body longs for You, in a dry and weary land where there is no water." Oh God, may I long to just be w/ You. May I long to just sit w/ You. To be close enough and still enough to hear you "breath".