You were shut down and cold-
closed off to love
And yet I loved you
With a bright intensity
That struck me dumb
Time past
My flame only fanned a flicker in you
Which ebbed and flowed
At turns
Carving untraceable chasms
In my heart
And now I am shut down
And closed off to love…
What we do
And what we do not
affects another soul
sometimes as strangers
sometimes, lovers
Regardless of our intent
I guess I have the she before me to thank
For my cold heart…
It appears to be contagious.
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taken in a moving car!
Breathtaking Beauty. Absolutely Amazing to see what the Lord has made for us.
being without children for so many days brought me back to my wilder side!
My inspiration for my poetry!
Most of my poetry thus far has been written in the first person. Sometimes this is because I have had the experience, sometimes because I would like to have the experience, and sometimes because someone I know is having the experience and I attempt to capture their perspective by imagining myself in their shoes. I will leave you to guess which poems are which!
Ingrid Michelson
I find Ingrid to be an incredible songwriter. She paints pictures with her words and I fall into them. Although I don't relate specifically to the pain she describes in "So Long" or "Sort of" it is so easy to imagine precisely how she feels. I admire that in a poet...when they can pull me in and make me grieve something I have never endured.
Well done Ingrid.
Me
My Blog
The purpose of my blog is to communicate Truth; the wrestling with and tension between pain, love, suffering and liberation.
Spiritual thought
God hears and answers prayers. When you are too weak to pray, someone else can and will utter them on your behalf. God's plan is to prosper you, not to harm you. He has the perfect perspective and loves you beyond your ability to comprehend.
Consider the lilies of the field...they neither toil nor spin, yet Solomon in all his glory was never arranged like them.
Fear not, for I am with you.
My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.
Like a Mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you.
The power of God is not of fear, but of strength and of power and a sound mind.
In this world ye shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.
All things work together for good for those who are called according to His purpose.
Faith, Hope, Love and the greatest of these is Love.
Love your neighbor as thyself...
Tree beside the ocean...standing alone
taken in a moving car!
northwest corner of island
Breathtaking Beauty. Absolutely Amazing to see what the Lord has made for us.
just like a tattoo...henna style
being without children for so many days brought me back to my wilder side!
On Forgiveness
This is amazing. Corrie Ten Boom was instrumental in aiding persecuted Jews in Holland during the holocaust. In her book, The Hiding Place, she speaks on forgiveness and how the victory comes. She is speaking about a german soldier who guarded her at the concentration camp that she saw again after the war.
Jesus, I cannot forgive him. Give me Your forgivcness. And as I took his hand the most incredible thing happened. From my shoulder along my arm and through my hand a current seemed to pass from me to him, while into my heart sprang a love for this stranger that almost overwhelmed me.
And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself."
Jesus, I cannot forgive him. Give me Your forgivcness. And as I took his hand the most incredible thing happened. From my shoulder along my arm and through my hand a current seemed to pass from me to him, while into my heart sprang a love for this stranger that almost overwhelmed me.
And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself."
Scriptural Thought for the Day!
Romans 8:35-39
"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. For I am persuaded , that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord."
How comforting to know that regardless of the trials I am going through, the Lord and I cannot be separated! If I have Him alone and through terrible times must go, I can make it through. I must strive to remember that any separation I feel is false and comes from me and the adversary. He is always there with His hand reached out still. How sweet and beautiful the world becomes no matter what I am going through when I look at it through that perspective. And perspective is always a choice. Today, I am choosing to bask in the truth and be illuminated by it! How spectacular it is!
"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. For I am persuaded , that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord."
How comforting to know that regardless of the trials I am going through, the Lord and I cannot be separated! If I have Him alone and through terrible times must go, I can make it through. I must strive to remember that any separation I feel is false and comes from me and the adversary. He is always there with His hand reached out still. How sweet and beautiful the world becomes no matter what I am going through when I look at it through that perspective. And perspective is always a choice. Today, I am choosing to bask in the truth and be illuminated by it! How spectacular it is!
Books I am currently reading or have just completed!
- A Walk on the Beach by Joan Anderson
- Catcher in the Rye-J.D. Salinger
- A Love Worth Giving by Max Lucado-still reading
- Into the Wild-still reading
- The Shack by William Young-SPECTACULAR
- Adrift-intense and inspiring
- the god of small things-WOW! Heartbreaking...
- The Anatomy of Peace by The Arbinger Institute
- The Kite Runner by Hosseini
- Leadership and Self Deception by The Arbinger Institute
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Hosseini
- Plato's Republic
- Bonds that Make Us Free- C. Terry Warner
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles-Thomas Hardy
- The Peacegiver by Jim Ferrell
- Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
- Battlefield of the Mind
- The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
- The Color Purple
- Eat, Pray, Love
Inspiring Books
- Leadership and Self-Deception by The Arbinger Institute
- The Anatomy of Peace by The Arbinger Institute
- Bonds that Make Us Free- C. Terry Warner
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte-ALL TIME FAVORITE
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- "The American Scholar" by Emerson
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
- The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
- "The Weight of Glory" by C.S.Lewis
- A Thomas Jefferson Education by Dr. Demille
Movies I love!
- Becoming Jane
- Pride and Prejudice
- Anna Karenina
- Amazing Grace
Music that moves me!
- Smile
- Lingering Still- She & Him
- Silver Lining-Rilo Kiley
- Fly-Jonathan David Heiser
- Where you go I go-Jesus Culture
- Soldier-Ingrid Michelson
- Stillness is the move-Dirty Projectors
- Way over Yonder-Carole King
- Howlin' for you-The Black Keys
- Come here Boy-Imogen
- Speeding Cars by Imogen
- Crazy-Alanis
- Samson-Regina Spektor