Toward the risen Son I set my face To see Your glory in this holy place, To hear the voice of Truth within my heart, To move within the grace that bids me start Each new day with mercies unforetold, Except that they eternally unfold.
Category: Poetry
Restless
We are restless, Lord. Uncomfortable with the status quo, Tired of business as usual, Yet unsure of where to go from here. Holy God! Make us aware again, Not of what You can give us, But of WHO YOU ARE! Stir in our breasts an earnest longing For a knowing rather than a hearing, For […]
Words – written 10/16/05
Words Sharp fragments Embedded in the mind Cutting into imagination Until it bleeds frustration Vision breaks apart Distorted by intellect Words Concepts confined Into tiny lines and curves Doorways to a broader reality Barriers to the same Visible pathways to Invisible truth If walked carefully, correctly Words Healing, soothing Bandages on broken heart Medicine for […]
Fighting Back – written 7/31/05
This oppressive heaviness weighs me down Pressing me into silence again and again. Words fail me—mind, tongue, and pen— Until I feel like a bird whose wings Are bound tightly against its body Unable even to struggle for flight, Much less fly. Somehow I must…must…MUST… Force myself to words again— Say what I feel when […]
Butterfly Prayer
The tenderest prayer flies on the wings of desperation Over the yawning chasm of doubt and disbelief Till, like the butterfly with borrowed veins of steel, It lights upon the finger of God Unfolding all the beauty of a faith-filled heart.
Watchman
I sit, perched on the wall, Dreaming of things to come, Outwardly unseeing as my inner eyes take over. The battlefield in front of me Lies littered with casualties of an unseen war While the afternoon sun shines brightly Over a city unaware. People go about their days Consumed with the details of life as […]
Possibilities
Holy Spirit, I feel possibilities this morning, Like I could really let go and let You… Somehow I feel Your presence here In a different way than before As if… it feels like a pregnancy, An expectancy, an overshadowing, new-creation presence… I can’t figure out how to put it, But I feel like new life […]
Control
Father… You are in control. I… am not.. A passion woke up inside me That’s always been there— Slumbering away for years. Every now and then It would raise its head, Look me in the eye, and Startle me out of my comfort zone. Then somehow, All that inexpressible longing Would soothe itself back to […]
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Proclamation
My heart is fixed on You. Daily, hourly I must seek You out, Tear down the idols of my heart, and Find Truth once more. I keep finding more meaning in Your word… “The entrance of your word gives light.” The first words recorded, spoken by You, were, “Let there be light,” and light was […]