too busy, too bored.

too busy in life?
too busy and bored...

looking for treasures
laid up and stored.

looking in corners
looking inside

for things untainted
for things i may hide.

wanting more reason
wanting more time

wanting to live life
yet wanting sublime.

to live for the pleasure
or live for the pain

to seek more than knowledge
to grow more insane!

running in circles
or living a lie?

what makes us grow
and not wonder and strive.

a lot more is waiting
its not hidden away

but laid up and stored
in its place it will stay.

awaiting our presence
awaiting our all

to be with Him always
and ever enthralled.

surrounded in bounty
encovered in beauty

enslaved by His love
and freed in His safety.

yes, that's what awaits
with i'm busy and bored

awaits for me there
with a wide open door.

i'm looking to that now
looking long hard and deep

letting it drive me
in my heart, let it seep.

focused on this One
i can go on today

knowing my ultimate
goal in this stay.

purpose for all and
purpose forever

please help me remember
forgetting it never.

and this will become
my daily abounding

of joy from within
an outflowing, astounding.

oh flow sweet joy, flow
and never retreat

for in Thine sweet heavens
oh Glory, You seat.

my eyes are on You
and Your eyes are on me

and all that is waiting
is waiting with Thee.

amen.

i'm yours

i'm yours, i'm yours, You say i'm yours

and out it pours

all heart's emotion

and hit, it hits, so hard and deep

to seep and leap

my heart's emotion

to feel it real and know it still

that all Your will

lies deep in this

a short and sweet and perfect piece

this little thought and special fleece

covers me with fullness

i'm yours, i'm yours, you say i'm yours

and suddenly, that's all that matters.

patience and understanding

patience and understanding go hand-in-hand. one without the other is just not possible. especially patience without understanding. so many times we all struggle with patience and we hope that we can have more patience. but its so difficult to pin-point how to have more patience.

maybe count to 5 before speaking. maybe count to 10 before reacting or getting angry. maybe take deep breaths and keep our mouths closed while driving in traffic.

but a great awakening comes when we realize that just by adding a bit of understanding into our minds and hearts in those moments of impatience (and outside those moments), our patience automatically increases.

when we try to understand someone more deeply before reacting or responding, this results in patience.

when we take a moment to think about someone's past or maybe what kind of day they've had, we are automatically more patient when speaking with them.

when we think understand how frustrated everyone else is on the road and how they have important places to be too, then we start showing patience on the roads and let others take our place in front of us.

its another lesson on seeing the glass half full instead of half empty. let's try adding some understanding these days instead of continually trying to increase our patience.

your yoke

Your yoke is what you offer me
is it a yoke of slavery
of course it's not, you must see,

A yoke is there to lighten the load
life as we know it is a long tough road
and so some help is what we need.

And that's really what you always give
a helping hand to help us live
victorious partnership,without yield,

So take the yoke, i must, we will
both up and down and up the hill
two together plowing the field.

light

there is a light
that shines so bright

so deep and strong
and ever long

that those that see
will always see

all that comes
within its sums

so much that they
and come what may

will always know
the light that shows

the depth of grace
seen in His trace

that ever glows
and always knows

the truth of sight
that comes in the light.

in the fire

its those times of being in the fire when we realize what we've really asked for. did we ask for the fire? probably not. who would ask to be burned? to be perfected and shaped and molded through a heat unimaginable to be able to withstand? no one. and if anyone does, it must be because they are crazy.

but nevertheless, the fire comes. sometimes it comes without warning and because of no certain reason. but sometimes it comes because we asked for it. not for the fire, but we asked for something and that certain something is perhaps one of those very things that can only be gained or obtained through fire.

and it's in those moments when we realize that thing we asked for last week or last month or last year is one of these hard things that comes when you pass through the fire--and maybe one of those things where you have to stand inside the fire a while before you can get it. and then the question comes...

why did i ask for it? what was i thinking! is this really worth it?

and that's the question that is only answered after you come through the fire and make it out of the heat of life. but the point remains, you are in the fire. i am in the fire. we are in the fire.

whether its now or later...we are all in the fire at some point. the real question that we can ask when we hit the fire is to ask for help. and help will come. and my guess is that this help is part of not only coming out of the fire, but also obtaining and gaining that initial thing we asked for.

a beckoning...speak

a quiet beckoning in my soul...
speak
please speak

with so much noise around
yet my ears are not satisfied
my soul not satisfied

oh i need you to speak

to hear the voice that i know so well
to feel that peace of the hum of your words
to see you move and shift life to share your quiet whisper

this is what my soul is beckoning for!

let my eyes open
my ears block out the other noise
my thoughts to only hear the beating of my heart

that i may hear the true voice
of the one that speaks
not to make noise

but to quiet my soul
to quicken my heart
to question my thoughts

to light the path
to lift the spirit
to lavish me with love

oh speak
oh please speak

i am listening.