Thursday, November 4, 2010

Indescribable



Psalm 8

LORD, our Lord,

how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory
in the heavens.
Through the praise of children and infants
you have established a stronghold against your enemies,
to silence the foe and the avenger.
When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
what is mankind that you are mindful of them,
human beings that you care for them?

You have made them a little lower than the angels
and crowned them
with glory and honor.
You made them rulers over the works of your hands;
you put everything under their feet:
all flocks and herds,
and the animals of the wild,
the birds in the sky,
and the fish in the sea,
all that swim the paths of the seas.

LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!


Psalm 103:11

For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him

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This makes all of this going on down here so significantly insignificant.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

This is Halloween!


What is it like to be a Christian?

It is like being a pumpkin.
God picks you from the patch,
brings you in, and washes all the dirt off of you.

Then he cuts off the top and scoops out all the yucky stuff.

He removes the seeds of doubt, hate, greed, etc.,
and then He carves you a new smiling face
and puts His light inside of you
to shine for all the world to see.






I thought this was really cute. :) I love Halloween.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Beautiful Sunset

Time to tell me the truth
To burden your mouth for what you say

No pieces of paper in the way
Cause I can't continue pretending to choose
These opposite sides on which we fall
The loving you later as if at all
No right minds could wrong be this many times

My memory is cruel
I'm queen of attention to details

Defending intentions if he fails
Until now, he told me her name
It sounded familiar in a way
I could have sworn I'd heard him say it ten thousand times
If only I had been listening

Leave unsaid unspoken
Eyes wide shut unopened
You and me
Always between the lines
Between the lines

I thought I thought I was ready to bleed
That we'd move from the shadows on the wall
And stand in the center of it all
Too late two choices to stay or to leave
Mine was so easy to uncover
He'd already left with the other
So I've learned to listen through silence

Leave unsaid unspoken
Eyes wide shut unopened
You and me be
You and me always be

I tell myself all the words he surely meant to say
I'll talk until the conversation doesn't stay on
Wait for me I'm almost ready
When he meant let go


Leave unsaid unspoken
Eyes wide shut unopened
You and me
Always be
You and me
Always between the lines

Friday, September 10, 2010

You Are More




There's a girl in the corner
With tear stains on her eyes
From the places she's wandered
And the shame she can't hide

She says, "How did I get here?
I'm not who I once was.
And I'm crippled by the fear
That I've fallen too far to love"

But don't you know who you are,
What's been done for you?
Yeah don't you know who you are?

You are more than the choices that you've made,
You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,
You are more than the problems you create,
You've been remade.

Well she tries to believe it
That she's been given new life
But she can't shake the feeling
That it's not true tonight

She knows all the answers
And she's rehearsed all the lines
And so she'll try to do better
But then she's too weak to try

But don't you know who you are?

You are more than the choices that you've made,
You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,
You are more than the problems you create,
You've been remade.

You are more than the choices that you've made,
You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,
You are more than the problems you create,
You've been remade.

'Cause this is not about what you've done,
But what's been done for you.
This is not about where you've been,
But where your brokenness brings you to

This is not about what you feel,
But what He felt to forgive you,
And what He felt to make you loved.

You are more than the choices that you've made,
You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,
You are more than the problems you create,
You've been remade.

You are more than the choices that you've made,
You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,
You are more than the problems you create,
You've been remade.

You've been remade
You've been remade.
You've been remade.
You've been remade.

- Tenth Avenue North

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Love is Patient



Lord,

Please grant me patience in waiting
for Your perfect timing.
Please remove the anxieties and fears.
Please help me trust
You.

In Him who bore my sin,
Amen

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Tug of War

Yesterday you let go.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Dear Diary...

My life used to be an open book.
A vomiting encyclopedia spewing the data of my life.
Now my life is a diary kept under lock and key.
The words have come to life
but they have to be locked away.
Their reality is to painful to bear.