Embrace

I wrote this song one night as I considered how effective we could be in the kingdom of God if we truly grasped early on that we were called to be God's agents, his earthly angels, maybe?  ...If we were steady witnesses and distributors of His love, His goodness, and His heart towards all men.. If maybe...we weren't so focused on ourselves...

Writer Quotes..

 "A writer never has a vacation.
For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing."
- Eugene Ionesco

"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

- Willa Cather

Quotes for Poets...

  

  "If it sounds like writing I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rythm of the narrative."
     - Elmore Leonard 

 The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. 

    - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

        "A poet can survive everything but a misprint."

 

        - Oscar Wilde

I've Learned (#2) ..."...that if you're going to pray, you might aswell be honest. He knows already, anyway. "

 Growing up in church, I must admit I've heard all kinds of prayers. Wordy prayers. Short prayers. Prayers that were full of heart, and prayers that lacked luster and thought.. Prayers full of scripture, and prayers full of drama. Prayers of faith, anxious prayers, and prayers that I just simply could not understand... another case of the deacon and his lost dentures? ...Perhaps.

My LOVE Banner

"He has brought me to his banquet hall, And his banner over me is love."  (Song of Solomon 2:4)

This one, is everything...

When I think about banners, and what they symbolize...  I can only conclude that we are simply unable to escape God's eternal, uninterrupted, unconditional, very LOUD love... And who would want to?

God is at Work

In tragedies, in triumph..

God is at work

In the fight, in loss.

God is at work.

In your grief and your joy..
God is at work.

In the win, in the score..

God is at work.

In a newborn's chuckle, his mother's cry...

God is - at work. 

In a victory that seems very far off.

God is at work.

When it rains and pours, no sun in sight...

God is at work. God's still at work...

When you can't comprehend, and you don't understand..

God is at work.
He's putting in time.

When you loved so much harder than you were loved in return..

God's been working, working so hard.

When you find yourself soaring, over challenges and all.

God is at work.  
He's working in you.

When each preparation meets opportunity..

God is at work. He's working through you.

When life is a series of beautiful things...

Please do believe... it's God who's at work.

When you survey your life, and you're not where you started.

 God is at work; He'll continue to be.

In all that we enjoy, and even endure...

 God is never absent - never hands off.

God is with us & God is at work.

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Can you think of a season in your life when you thought all was lost?
  
God was at work.

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The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and his ears are attentive to their cry.

(Psalm 34:15)

Trust in the LORD with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will direct your paths.

(Proverbs 3:5-6)

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, said the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

(Jeremiah 29:11)

 That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet this is no cause for shame, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day.

2 Timothy 1:12

The LORD directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives.

(Psalm 37:23)

Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

(2 Corinthians 7:14)

But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

(Job 23:10)

"Constrained by Perfection"

I'm thinking Jesus told me flat out.. about two and a half years ago..

"Perfectionism is stunting your growth."

"Dear Church Baby..." Part 2

Dear Church Baby,

Believe again. Believe always..

You're preparing in time, for life in eternity. 

Voice of the Child of Divorce ((Feature Video))

My parents separated when I was 8.
They divorced when I was 13.

When I came across this video,  it was all too real to me..
It reminded me of the heartache I endured.. his words mirrored mine.