Naked

Afraid to walk in the light

We walk in shadows

Whispers all around us

echoes our pasts. 

It hunts us day and night

like a lion waiting for its prey.

The accusers  say to us, 

the truth will find you out one day.

And if it does what next?

Oh no,  we would be known to all,

exposed to the world to be scorned

Is shame the ultimate punishment for our deeds?

If it is, we have feared in vain

In vain we have walked in darkness

For if shame is the ultimate price,

let us pay our debts now

We no longer  desire to wait fearfully

for that day to come

Let that day come now

Let us see our salvation

Let us approach the light that

We may see the one who took

the shame of this world upon himself

so we no longer have to walk in shame

Let us see Christ,

Let him be known

Let him cleanse and illuminate our lives

Stranger

Stranger your mouth may not always

be able to say what your heart feels

In vain, you  listen and hope that the wind

carries your messages to your 

place of rest

If only your lamp was not broken you would 

have been able to find your way.

Stranger, you don't have to hold 

your voice in captivity

Shout! Shout  with all that is left in you,

help is not to far from you.

My rock

When the waters rage
deep with my soul
Who do I run to?
Where do I go? 
When the winds blow
violently and sweeps me
off my feet
I will  hang unto You. Rock of ages.
I will rely on you, You calm the seas.

The simple hearted prayer

Quicken my pace

Sharpen my eyes

Lift me up far above 

my imagination

Let me share of your bounty

For you own my life.

Rule me, Reign over me

The length and breadth of my

abilities can only be fully discerned by you

Open my understanding to comprehend the

meaning of existence 

We Choose to Run

Delighted in our own ways,
We entertain these strange thoughts,

Our minds can only wander so far,

We are held down,
Bound by our own tendencies,

If only we spent more time on our knees

If only we shut our eyes one minute longer

Yet we chose to run rather than stand and fight

Fight these voices that has made us cold,

old, stoned, cloned.

Now, all we are left with is a shadow,

a shadow of who we could have become,
What heights we would have ascended!
If only we chose his His pace over ours

She is Set and Ready to Go

He comes  not  dressed in shinning armor,
He comes not riding chariots of fire,
He comes not accompanied by warriors,
But he comes.He comes with love and  power to 
save, to rescue her.
But will she be rescued?
Will she?

For she is set in her ways.

She claims to know it all.

How can he make her see?

When her scales  have refused to

fall off from her eyes?

Who will save her?

For she has sewn herself deep,

deep into the fabric of destruction

Who can rescue her?

Who can?

Temporary Gain, Permanent Loss

In search of the beauty,

They found  the beast,

and it called out to them:

Come, come, follow me  and I will

show you my path, for my path is wide and

paved with gold

You will never have to work for anything, I will give it all  to you.

Then, a lamb, gentle and mild

called unto them quietly,

saying: come, come follow me and I will

show you my path, my path is narrow and marked with suffering

You will never have to work alone, I will be there with you.

Because they did not want to endure suffering, they ran after the beast and submitted themselves

...Little did they know that the narrow road

though marked with suffering would lead

to true  and lasting riches

for the lamb had life in himself

They chose the beast over the lamb,

but little did they know that with the promises of gold from the beast

came a promise to take control of their lives,

to drain their joy daily, and run them to the ground

....until he robbed them of eternity....

A Random Collection of Quotes I Made up...

"Holding unto what you don't have a hold on is like jumping into the sea with the hope of finding the coin you threw into the sea on a stormy day. You may have better luck being spared from being struck down by lightening than you may have finding that coin"

"Searching is Seeing- Doing is Becoming- Finding is Seeking- Willing is Ascending"

(makes sense even in the reverse order...)

"When words become action you can bring down a mountain"

"Every now and then we become scientists"

"Your thoughts makes my thoughts think"

"To each man his own"

"How can you build without any building materials"

"The matters of the heart are deep, its roots go deeper with each beat"

"With each brick you lay you can build a wall. When a wall is built, it takes twice the effort to tear it down"

"What does subtracting time eaters; dividing minutes more effectively; multiplying energy; adding more restraint = ? "

" Should ability = action?"

"Some say to be distant is to be absent from a person. But I say, to be distant is not to be absent from a person, but for a person to be right next to you yet  you don't see them"

"Yes to choose life is to choose to forgive. To forgive is to be liberated. To be liberated is to be elevated. To be elevated is to transcend. To transcend is to become imitators  of our heavenly father's nature."

"Pruning is good for the soul"

"Losing is sometimes the only way to gain and taking steps backwards could be the only way forward"

"Your poetry makes me think about the clay in the hand of a master potter. He beats it, shapes it, and makes it into whatever form he chooses to. Your words seem to me like your clay. You beat it up and make it to whatever form you choose."

"So here I am before the Source of life. Let me drink from the Source. Let me live by the Source. Let me stay in the Source. Let me fix my gaze on the Source and never look away. Let my roots go deep in the Source and never be uprooted. My Source, My Lord, My Beginning, and My End. To be separated from you? Never!"

" The beautiful, admired, and coveted by many. The beautiful knows that true beauty comes from the source: the epitome of beauty. The beautiful is not consumed in the creation but in the Lord of all creations"

" It is interesting how each individual projects the meaning of friendship differently. How we all can be speaking but getting different meanings...The messages we send through our verbal and non-verbal exchanges."

"All these thorns that keep piercing through my beautiful land.

These thorns keep threatening to grow taller than these beautiful plants.

Cut these thorns to size for me! But before you do, equip me with the right tools; I need to be ready if these thorns invade my land again"

"Life in itself meaningless. Whatever value we add to it is temporary. God is the only permanent thing in life. The more we get closer to God, the more we can understand the meaning of living."

"True and lasting joy comes from God not from the acceptance of men"

"Passion without action will not lead to desired results"