The Clouds Keep Moving

Searching and seeking are most precious things
Everyone is entitled to search for their own contentment
Problems arise when contentment has been reached but ignored
Passed over, forgotten...

Everything in life can be taken too far, too long
Faith is believing without seeing, so close your eyes and step forth
Rather than standing, stubbornly in place with eyes wide open
What good is seeing when you cannot touch and enjoy?

So many amazing things are missed while we are busy looking down
Cautiously checking
Are we on the right path or about to fall?
Just look up and enjoy
Beauty above us, stop and see
As we move through life, digging for answers, forming new questions
The clouds keep moving across the sky, whether we notice
Or not
They wait for no one, and once they've gone...
Only grey, dark skies remain

Arise

Worldly self, leave me!
Wipe the crust from my eyes
Sound the alarms and open my ears
But most of all...
Revive this empty heart
Polish off this tarnished soul
Lead me back to Him
Lead me back to me
Worldly self, leave me!




"Arise and be all that you dreamed" - Flyleaf

"This is your life and today is all you've got now, today is all you'll ever have
Don't close your eyes, this is your life, are you who you want to be?
This is your life, is it everything you dreamed that it would be?
When the world was younger, and you had everything to lose" - Switchfoot

Tiny Booming Voice

How does a voice bigger than life remain so mute?

Fractured smiles and thoughtless laughs sugarcoat the emptiness
Emptiness crying out to be filled with the spirit
Spirit of life, spirit of love, spirit of growth, spirit of wholeness

Screaming from the Lover of Souls
Goes unnoticed and unappreciated
Like muffled pillow screams of pain
Crying out, broken and betrayed by wordly waters
Thirsty for something deeper, thicker
Something real

Yet here we stand, deaf and blind
While He is running in place against walls
Brick walls we have assembled with care
His arms open, eyes wide & weeping in frustration

And where are You?
Can't You see me?

What have we done?
Where have we been?

How can a voice screaming so loud
Still be unheard, yet so yearned for?

Marathon

If something is truth, believing is golden
But where to draw the line?
Something raw and sacred, cannot be replaced
Seared into your mind
Take this from me, hold out your hand
Fresh and new beginning
Patience not expected, not taken for granted
Running the race but never winning
Just the fact that you tried, you gave your best
Anonymity is truly a gift
Surprising fulfillment in honorable mention
Overtaking, refreshing water rushes
Do you feel this today?
Adequate and loving it
Precious and divine you are
Never give in, never quit

a prayer of desperation

God be with them
God where are they?
God don't forsake us
We know not what we do
She knew not what she did
God soothe the pain
God bring comfort
God show Your face
He's crying out inside
God lead us back
God hold us up
God bring peace
She was blinded by circumstance
God where are You?
God where are we?
God shake us out of this
We are caught up in ignorance
God please forgive us
God reach out for us
God understand this
They saw no way out
God offer guidance
God please have patience
God wait on us
She was lost in her failure
GOD DON'T FORSAKE US!
GOD PLEASE FORGIVE THEM!

God....
Why is this so hard for us?
Where is our holiness?
God we long for You
But stubbornly shun You
 
God will they know You?
God turn this around
God draw him closer
She's gone, he's lost
God find them!
God find me!
God find us all
Let us know and accept
Accept and surrender
May he surrender!
May I surrender!
A command against the angel of death
Spiritual, emotional, physical death
Lead us home before it's too late
Father find us, Father surrender, Father amen