Psalm 52:8

But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in God's unfailing love for ever and ever.

Psalm 51:17

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

Grateful

I'm so grateful
The world storms my walls
But I'm so grateful
Grateful for a peace
Beyond understanding
Grateful for a hope
That never fails
Grateful for your love
Love never ending
Grateful that your promises
Are kept

Connecting the Dots

Looking back,
To connect the moments,
That brought me to you...

Maybe it's a heart that was once broken
Maybe it's a promise unkept
Maybe it's the hope I lost forever
Maybe it's my fear of what's ahead

Maybe it's a dream I wish I'd woken
But I didn't and now regret
Maybe it's a step I should have taken
Maybe it's a shame I can't forget

Maybe a million things,
A million moments,
That brought me to you...

Possibilities

The wolf will live with the lamb,
the leopard will lie down with the goat,
the calf and the lion and the yearling together;
and a little child will lead them.
The cow will feed with the bear,
their young will lie down together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
The infant will play near the hole of the cobra,
and the young child put his hand into the viper's nest.
Isaiah 11:6-8

I Don't Mind

Lying on my bed, staring at the ceiling,
A million thoughts shared only
With a hanging sprinkler
But I don't mind

We have a lot in common, us two
Both made of metal, both putting out fires
'til we're both consumed
But I don't mind

When everything's burnt to the ground,
You and I are to blame for failing
So we'll exit charred as we are
But I don't mind

White As Snow - Jon Foreman

Wash me white as snow

And I will be made whole

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.

Ups & Downs

My day goes up and down like the waves but I stay on course.

Three in the Morning

I don't know how to describe the calm of a sleeping child, without a care, without a worry, without a concern. And I say a little prayer, for this boy who'll be a man, that he'll be strong and brave, and generous, without ever losing his peace.

Conversations Around Me

My quiet morning has given way to voices, ideas, opinions, and gossip. The conversations seem to get louder with each minute. I really don't mind. I'm grateful to have something mask my own struggle to breathe.

Street-Side Cafe

Watching the scene from inside Alexandre, the street side-cafe near my apartment, I take in the life. So many shapes, and colors, and sounds, and patterns, and the people of course, walking this way and that, each with his or her own reason for going where they're headed. It's amazing the stories they represent - so many tales that it's impossible for us to get bored - IF we would only put an ear to another's heart and listen to the legato and staccatto of their soul.

But we never do because we never get the chance. We never get the chance because we're going this way and that.

1 Timothy 4:12 -16

Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity. Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching. Do not neglect your gift, which was given you through a prophetic message when the body of elders laid their hands on you.

Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress. Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.

Silver Lining

A  broken heart
No longer alone
Accompanied by
Its pieces

If by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you 

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;

If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with triumph and disaster

And treat those two imposters just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breath a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!