Name: Beautiful Disaster
Duration: 3 min
Channel: Kristen J. Gibbs, Jenny Jenkins
Description: "Beautiful Disaster" is a song by Kristen J Gibbs. A realization that God's plans are not always our plans.

Beautiful Disaster

Kristen J Gibbs

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A realization that God's plans are not always our plans.

Kristen J Gibbs

Simple songs that I hope will touch the heart of God, and maybe a few other people in the process.

I may never make it to Nashville, and I may never be on the radio, but that's okay. That's not why I do what I do. I do what I do because I understand things best when I get them down in rhyming lines set to music. I do what I do because I believe that my Heavenly Father enjoys the songs that few hear just as much as He enjoys the songs that everyone hears. I do what I do because it's one of the best ways I know how to worship God, encourage friends, and uplift the body of Christ.

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Guitar

Charts

Peak #370

Peak in subgenre #105

Author

Kristen J. Gibbs, Jenny Jenkins

Rights

2004 Kristen J. Gibbs

Uploaded

January 11, 2005

Track Files

MP3

MP3 2.8 MB • 128 kbps • 3:00

Story behind the song

I started off the first semester of my freshman year as a Chemical Engineering major. But I wasn't content. Over and over, I began to sense God's call on my heart and His Spirit leading me to missions. This song, "Beautiful Disaster" is about that realization and change. By the standards of the world, it just doesn't make sense to give up the stability, prestige, and cash of an engineering career to pursue international missions. But I once heard it said that if we let Him, "Jesus messes up your life and makes it beautiful." After all, this is all for His glory, not ours!

Lyrics

I had everything mapped out
From college to degree
The future that I wanted
And who I planned to be
But then You grabbed my heart
And You just won't let go
I'm not sure where I'm headed
But this is what I know
 
You take our best laid plans and flip them
Completely upside-down
You take a heart and fashion it
With the hands of the Master
You take the gifts we bring and use them
To turn our world around
You take a life and change it
Into a beautiful disaster

Now I really don't know how
My future will unfold
But I know it's in Your hands
With wonders yet untold
'Cause when You called my name
You said You’d never leave
Despite my human doubts
You'll complete Your masterpiece
 
You take our best laid plans and flip them
Completely upside-down
You take a heart and fashion it
With the hands of the Master
You take the gifts we bring and use them
To turn our world around
You take a life and change it
Into a beautiful disaster

Truer words I’ve never heard than these:
"Jesus messes up your life
And makes it beautiful"

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