Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Every face has a story

Every face has a story.

Each smile has seen a frown,

Every laugh knows a tear.

Each wrinkle is wisdom in disguise,

Every scar a tantalizing tale.


Every face has a story.

Each success has known some failure,

Every dream has seen dashed hopes.

Each heart has known love,

Every soul has felt connection.


Every face has a story.

Each body has grimaced in pain,

Every wound has felt a healing touch.

Every face has a story.

Will you ask?

Will you listen?

Will you tell?

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Won't You delight (A song)

What can I give, but all I am to You
All that I am I lay down at Your feet

Won't You delight
Won't You delight
My life, an offering

I open my hands, they are Yours to use
Unbind my feet, I follow where You lead

Won't You delight
Won't You delight
My life, an offering

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Paintings on canvas

We are beings made for intimacy with our Creator.
Made as canvas to become paintings from on high.
Beautiful art that glorifies our Beloved.

Each brush stroke another synchronized movement.
Our spirit moving with His, step by step, stroke by stroke.
The color is unique and vibrant; otherworldly.

A dance of greens, yellows, purples.
All coming together to create the perfect image.
Each painting, each life, is evidence of perfect worship;
Christ and His bride moving and growing, always together, never separate.
This is what was intended, what it would have looked like.
Perfect oneness, holy intimacy.

Instead there are imperfections, wounds, separation.
The paintings have spots that do not bring glory, the colors don't dance.
Some paintings stand still.
No dance.
No synchronization.
Empty and void with hope and beauty only He can see.

His color dances alone across the canvas waiting for a response,
A partner.
On each painting He is waiting to apply His blood,
the crowning jewel of each beautiful creation.
The blood makes the colors dance again, takes away the voids.
And what once did not bring glory, sings of who He is.

His blood restores.
His blood renews.
His blood forgives.
His blood saves.
His blood covers each painting.
Making every stroke, every move, every dancing color,
shout of His never ending love!

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

A Psalm

You say to go then have me stay
When oh God?
When will the back and forth,
the hesitation, the confusion cease?
When will the clouds lift?
When will i feel Your presence?
Oh how i long for Your touch,
to feel Your hand in mine.
My eyes yearn to see Your face,
show me how to see.
My ears have not heard You.
Oh God must i only stand on truth?
Where has the realness of You gone?
I want to embrace You, laugh with You,
sing with You, play with You.
I do not doubt who You are or
what You can do.
I do not question Your nearness
because i know You are near.
I have seen what You can do
I have experienced Your touch.
What i am asking is to have a
romance with You.
God that You would invade
every part of me
My thoughts, my actions.
And please just touch me, wrap me up.
Tangibly put Your arms around me.
I am hungry for Your touch.
Like a dry river bed i am desperate for water.
Lord let Your love overflow in my heart.
God i love You and I will praise Your name always.
You are the Holy King of heaven and
I exalt Your name.

Release the sound (A song)

There is a new song deep within my heart
There is a melody burning in my soul

So i'm asking you God
Won't You come and
Release the sound
Release the sound

I want to sing with the angels around Your throne
I want to see heaven come to earth

So i'm asking You God
Won't You come and
Release the sound
Release the sound

And we sing holy holy holy Lord

Waiting on the rain

Lord You spoke and we have heard
the promise of Your coming rain.
Everyday we lift our face to see if
today will be the day.
The day that the heavens break,
You release a flood.
We are waiting for the rain,
waiting for the rain to come.
Faces lifted up, arms raised high
expecting the flood.
Crack the heavens, split the sky
rain down Your mercy and grace because
Lord this land is dry.
Hear Your children's plea
as they cry out desperately
for a Savior to come and overwhelm with love.
To pull them up out of the clay
Lord, they need to be shown a way.

Last Breath(not really a worship post, but some of my writing all the same :) )

A one room shack with little to show,
But a little girl sitting, and waiting out the snow.
It is not her home, just a place to rest,
a place to belong, a place to forget.
Forget the pain of the frost on her face
and the loneliness of long winter days.
She stares at the snow falling through the cracks in the window;
Falling, landing, melting
Falling, landing, melting.
Singing a sad tune that only the little shack hears
"broken chair, broken glass, broken present, broken past,
broken hopes and broken dreams,
Everything is broken it seems.
Let the pieces fall where they may and
hope for a better day."
The orange glow of the winter night shines
through the window, casting shadows in the tiny space.
The little girl curs up in the middle of the floor.
With a smile pulling at the corner of her mouth,
she whispers a prayer of thanksgiving for the shelter
of the tiny shack.
Preparing to ascend she takes her last breath and says goodbye.
Snow falls through the cracks in the window
of a one room shack.
With little to show but a little girl finding her last comfort
under the roof, sheltered from the snow.
Living, resting, dieing
Living, resting, dieing