As a Christian, it can be extremely easy to get distracted. It's so easy to take the focus off of God and put it on ourselves. It's so much easier to love ourselves more than our neighbors, to serve ourselves rather than God and others. I'm afraid that this has been something that I have been struggling with lately without even realizing it (until now). In my everyday life, there are people around me hurting. Why can't I just step back from my self-consumed world to see that and reach out to them? And why is it that when I am supposed to be worshipping God that I am so preoccupied about what's happening in my life?

I recently purchased the latest Starfield CD, "Beauty in the Broken", and there's a song on there called "Captivate" that I absolutely love. What first caught my attention about was the music and the haunting tone of it. The lyrics, however, really hit home and apply to where I am at my life right now:

You say/ Strength is found weakness/ Peace in incompleteness/ So why do I hold on/ You look / For a heart that's open/ For beauty in the broken/ So why am I withdrawn/ My soul's screaming out/ To be found in you/ Spirit draw me/ To my knees/ Captivate/ All of me/ All of me/ Here before You/ Honestly/ Captivate/ All of me/ All of me/ I'm so messy and distracted/ Undisciplined and tactless here on the inside/ I thought age would tell the secrets/ But the secrets are still secret/ And the years are passing by/ Teach me to wait in the moments of my need/ Teach me to hear the melodies of peace.