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.

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.

delight

trust and dwell is what you say
delight and you'll give us our way?

is there more to that or simple steps
to sit with you leads us to blessed?

to depths we go in learning trust
and dwelling grows, as it must

for all the desires laying in our hearts
are ready for the taking, if only to start

to understand how to truly delight
in simple terms, to lay in sunlight

for sunlight offers its gift with ease
by asking us only to stop and receive

with just a simple spot to lay
we take in the gift, ray by ray

could it be so simple, that to delight
is like receiving simple sunlight?

it is, my sweet, that's all it is
to share in all He has and is

so stop we must, and receive we will
as we delight in Him and in the still

our hearts together and with this comes
the same desires, one by one

oh what a gift, oh what a delight
to sit and receive in His rays of sunlight!


(inspired by Psalm 37)