Rest - Haiku trio

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Still, I now can feel

God's motion all around me

at Rest in my ark

At Rest, I realize

Noah couldn't steer either

"God is Great, M'Sabu"

Dove and Olive Branch

I smile at my smallness

Storm Spent, Rest in sight...

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Shore

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My Beloved,

Hear Me:

I AM Sovereign over the storm

I AM steering the ship,

every circumstance

every "happenstance"

every joy

every sorrow

I AM in control

I do not ask you to walk out on water

I ask you to invite me in to the boat

it was not Peter's heroics that harnessed the gale

but rather My Word,

Peace, Be Still.

I AM the Way

where there seems to be no way

and I AM directing your Path

with a Wisdom you cannot now fathom,

in ways you cannot possibly hope for or ask

I AM the good Shepherd,

I AM your Shepherd

I will not leave you lost

you are Mine,

I AM yours,

I AM with you

I will lead you,

and I will,

without fail, Beloved

bring you back

to Shore

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"Do not remember the former things,

nor consider the things of old;

Behold I do a New Thing...

I will make the way in the wilderness

and rivers in the desert."

-Isaiah 43:18-19

Rise

"Rise up, My love, My fair one...

for behold, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone, 

flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come...

Rise up, My love, My fair one..."

-Song 2:10-13

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Buoyant hearts

Resilient beyond reason

Bear witness to the Heart that bore them

hearts having borne a backbreaking cross

given up for dead

thought bested...

But slowly, slowly, long shadows are cast

incredulous eyes turn to see,

Gold dispels dark

Sky turning, turning...
and the Word again spoken,

"Let There Be..."

Life stifled and silenced

now has the final say,

now breaks,

is Reborn in the breaking,

Graveclothes give way to Irrepressible Light

Unfettered,

Unbroken,

Unburied,

We Rise

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"Did I not tell you if you believed,

you would see the Glory of God?"

-John 11:40

safe keeping

for my Maddie

June 11, 2003 - April 18, 2014

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Given me for safe keeping

Given into this life

too turbulent,

too heavy for her heart

she tethered me to terra

when time and again

 I would've flown

and now she flies

finally free

finally weightless,

boundless,

unburdened

Resurrected 

back into the Heart of God

from whence she came

to keep me

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Rest well, my Dear one

finally at Peace

finally Home

"...this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you..."

-Don McLean

Passover...

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I ask breadcrumbs

from Bread of Life,

settle for glimpses

from The-God-Who-Sees

Lame and Blind

I  await a few alms

When He would make me walk

When He who holds me

as the apple of His Eye

would give me sight...

Egypt bearing down hard

trapped between Sea and Slavery

I beg for a boat

from the Hand Who Parts The Water...

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"He brought them out from there,

that He might bring them in."

-Deuteronomy 6:23

pinscratch

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a million moments had to happen just so,

a thousand planets align,

to make this one pinscratch on the road

in this exact place,

at this precise moment in time

how can that awareness fill my mind 

with anything less than profound peace,

and letting go

and come-what-may trust

why now do I feel I need to protect 

and guard and preserve
the pinscratch....

why can I not lie on my back
a pinscratch on this road myself

arms outstretched,
breathing deep,

laughing out loud

into the sky...


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Cross Over II

Matthew 14:22-33

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Twelve verses depicting Twelve men

unwittingly sent into a storm of hurricane proportions.

 Jesus actually sent his followers,

his beloved,
his friends,

into the tempest,

without Him.

He knew exactly what they were in for.
He knew exactly what He was doing.

He knew the terror they would face
the bewilderment they would bear
the betrayal they would feel.

and yet

He surrendered them to the wind's fury,
letting them battle the waves all night long;
It was more important for these messengers of Salvation
to know their Savior,
to know the Lord of the Storm,
than to be spared the storm.

The gale did not sink God's chosen,
but served to shipwreck the vestiges of their faulty faith

They saw, first hand, Salvation Himself surface,
and dominate what threatened to drown them.

The storm was not an end;

It was an integral part of the path

to the Beginning

Jesus didn't send them into the storm to destroy them,

He sent them into the storm to get them to the other side.

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"Peace, Be Still."

-Mark 4:39