Daze 8: Dazzled or Dazed?

So yesterday was a good day. I decided to walk with my Bill and Jenny and our pup Lillybelle around the neighborhood. They were on foot and I was on my wheelchair scooter. It was lovely out as I ventured up a driveway to see a house for sale. Suddenly my scooter lost its bearing on some very rough dirt and I toppled to the ground. Jenny said she almost had another heart attack and I’ve never seen Bill so worried. I was feeling sore and thought I’d be black and blue but nothing broken.

Today I woke up feeling fine except for a pain in my eye where I hit the ground. So my choice in all of this, is that no matter what each day brings, not to be dazed by it all. Instead I choose to be dazzled. Jesus is at the highest place -- the throne of God. In fact, He's at God's right hand and He's interceding for me. So that’s my poem for today, called Dazed or Dazzled, based on Philippians 2:6-11: 

Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Dazed or Dazzled

Verse 1

My choices in this season,

            Are so many to stand tall.

Do I choose to be dazed,

            And to cry when I fall?

Or do I choose to be dazzled

            By God’s goodness through it all?

Refrain

I choose to be dazzled

               By God’s goodness and His grace.

I choose to be dazzled

               Because He took my place.

I choose to be dazzled

               Now I get to run the race.

I choose to be dazzled

               For there’s nothing left but grace.

Verse 2

Each day may be so different,

            Yet they all seem the same.

Without my view through God’s lens,

            My heart will lose its aim.

With my view through His lens 

            My heart will praise His Name.

Verse 3

So I choose to be dazzled

            By Jesus’ on the cross.

He made Himself nothing,

            To rid me of my dross.

His compassion through His death

            Is my gain through His own loss.

Verse 4
So now I'm so dazzled

            By the King on the throne.

God gave Him the highest place.

            His brilliance there is shown.

Now my heart if filled with thanks,

            God made me His very own.