Departed

 

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God sees our pain

And raises us Grace

He will not be bested by darkness

Or deep seas

Or unparted waters of any kind...

Come hell or high water

Heaven will hold...

Thus held,

We journey on

Promised Land

Awaits...

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Unparted

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I stepped into the Red Sea

And Drowned

The waters overflow me

As I sink

   Down           

            

           Down

   Down      

Till, like a stone

      I hit the ground    

Silt, softly burying

bygone dreams

harbored hopes 

Suffocating

Still...

Incredulous eyes

Stare up at the surface

Sickly light seeping through

A fool watching for Phantoms

Lazerus yet hopeful he hasn't been lost

Straining, Searching

Somewhere Still Believing

Even

As her last breath

Departs

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Grief

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A Torrent

A Flood

A River

Tears always described by water 

By great forces of nature 

As grief seems to be

To what end? 

To carve out, what? 

Canyons in our hearts

Where courses deep the water

Which truly quenches thirsty souls 

And isn't that what we're all here for, anyway...

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consecrated...

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on we go, "consecrating this time, this journey, this life to God", 

like a fish, consecrating the ocean to God.....

How He must smile........

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Lost?

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The Wanderlust Life

We lead on this planet

Our Oz

Our Far Country

Where the Wild Things Are

Yellow Brick Roads

Prodigal Parties

Our days whirling round

The Wild Rumpus of it all

Till one day

Road Weary

Disillusioned by the din

We tire of the endless circling

Our Dervish wanderings...

Yet ever peripheral

Persists Promised Land's pull

Closer than breath

Calling...

We dance unaware

Right on the edge

Feeling always the eventual falling...

Siren song or Still Small Voice?

I like to think the latter

Gravitational Grace

Bending our way

Vectoring us Home...

Every One of us...

Finally...

Forever...

Home...

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"Behold, I send an Angel before you to keep you in the Way and bring you into the place which I have prepared."

-Exodus 23:20

Twinkle

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Twinkle twinkle Little Star 

funny little star we are 

full of angst and rivalries 

hopes and dreams

 and follies

 In the scheme of things

 We are so small 

Our problems even smaller 

Such that someone miles away 

Might look upon us all and say, 

"Twinkle twinkle little star,

how I wonder what you are"

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Psalm 144:4

Hush

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We struggle so to hear 

The Still Small Voice:

Sing the right song,

Pray the right prayer,

Sit just so,

Eat just so,

or no...

I play guitar

And sometimes

When the strings are strummed

I feel a soft silence fall

As though I have bent all of Heaven's Ear

As though,

Perhaps,

He also loves my still small voice

And bids the angels hush

So He can hear...

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"Oh my dove, my darling, in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places on the mountainside, show me your face, let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely."

-Song of Solomon 2:14

Time Travel

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Grace Alone

 Can travel 

Through time

Through space

 Past and Future 

Reaching 

Healing

 Filling in the gaps...

 The "might-have-beens" 

The "should-have-dones" 

Our failures 

Our falterings

 And turn for good 

And alchemize

 The basest parts

 The broken things

 Grace cocoons these places

 Metamorphosing our moments 

Making joy out of mourning

Gold out of garbage

Wings out of worms

Grace weaves through every tick of time

From Beginning to End

Backwards

And Forward 

Turning our lives into a tapestry

 Fit for our King

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"All things work together for good..."

-Romans 8:28

Beauty

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The Match is Struck

When we are born

And we burn through our Lives

Hopefully bringing Warmth

And Light

to Others

Which may, indeed, be our only Purpose...

...Letting God

Turn our Ashes

Into

Beauty

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Isaiah 61:3

Dark III

"The Lord said he would dwell in the dark cloud"

-I Kings 8:12

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In the darkness

 In the spin

 In the bewilderment of Which-Way-Is-Up

We are helped 

We are husbanded

 We are harnessed into Him 

When all we feel is madness

 Method holds us 

In higher ways

 In higher thoughts ...

In the dark cloud 

We are tethered to Light 

and Light Himself

 will lead us 

Home

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