The world today

As we look around us we are confronted with the daily reminder of the direction our society is headed. The constant news reports of murder, rape, theft and many more crimes reminds us that society has taken a turn for the worst. I am constantly asking myself why this is and I keep coming back to the same conclusion. I would like to explain this in this short paper and give a way I think these problems could be solved. As young kids most of us here in America are taught about God in some way; whether that is Sunday school with the family or someone singing about Christ when putting us to bed at night. Yet as we grow older we are all focused on living and not dying. Don’t get me wrong, I don't want to end my life in any way I am just saying people live their lives in such a careless way and seen to lose sight on the fact that we are not immortal. If death were the focus then Jesus would play a more vital role. With our focus on Christ we view and value life on a different level. Christ is the only way to eternal life and the only salvation for our sins. No one is perfect and that is not what I'm implying, I'm simply stating that if our focus leaves the world and falls on Christ our life and actions will naturally change. So how do we get Christ and his message spread? Simple... Act on what you know about Christ. Be different from the world and be the change you wish the world would be. Then when someone asks why you are different, tell them about how Christ died for us. So through Christ the world is saved and through our example as Christians the world will be changed.

The story

The story of us

Before we began

There was confusion

Despair

A world of broken hearts

Emotionless fears

Tears shattered

Hearts disarranged

Mind littered with darkness

With you

Life is brighter

My heart is filled with ecstasy

The trash that filled my mind is cleared

My world is safer with you near

Joy

Hope

And love consume my days

There is a peace found in your arms my love

There is a happiness found in your touch

A complete elation found with your kiss

A buzzing sent through my veins with your presence

I yearn for your taste

I yearn for your scent

I yearn for your voice

I love you completely

I love you today

I love you tomorrow

I love you when we are old and grey

You are my beginning

You are my love

You are my best friend

You are my heart

In my heart you reside

In my mind pictures of you I retain

The story of us

Strength from Him

When a heart has been broken

The mind tends to take control

When a heart has been broken

All feeling ceases

And logic increases

Yet if your mind is full of unstable thoughts

 Unstable actions are what will be produced

Fill your mind with what is true

What is noble

What is right

What is pure

What is lovely

What is admirable

What is excellent

What is praiseworthy

For these things

will produce actions that follow suit

It is never about how much you can withstand

As much as it is about how much God can withstand

For we are weak to the core

Your legs give out

Your mind grows tired

And power disappears from your hands

Yet in the heart filled with truth

There is a strength that manages to shine through

There is a joy that blankets all pain

And comforts the hurting soul

Through Christ all things are possible

Through Christ strength is given to those who ask

Fill your mind

Prepare for times when life seems to fall apart

For when you do the truth will transcend 

Giving up

Self inflicted

Self induced

My mind is a rain storm on the open sea

My heart eternally breaking

This is not up to me

The emotions come like waves

I am endlessly searching for the calm in my storm

Why do I let you have this power over me?

Your heart is empty

Your hands are full of rage

When you see me

You see a puppet that you can easily play

I want to finish breaking

So I can heal in the correct way

I am tired of feeling

I am tired of hurting

I am tired of all this pain

How do I tell me heart to stop?

How do I get my mind to win?

This is a battle I have no control in

God, please take my heart and make it whole

God, please take my life and make it yours

This war inside of me is taking its toll

I am not sure how much longer this can go on

I am tired of taking this in my own hands

I am tired of trying to fix things with my power

This is me

Giving up

Please lead me in the direction that I am supposed to be

Please help me see the path you have for me

Please remind me what I am fighting for

Please remind me what I am fighting for

I look around

I see fragments of my heart

Pieces of me that you keep ripping apart

I feel exposed

I feel ashamed

The truth to the matter is I am not to blame

The only thing I am faulted for

Is falling victim to your appeals

My hands are clammy

My mind is weak

Yet my faith remains firm

My feet stay planted

To rid you from my heart would be freedom

To rid you from my mind would be bliss

The issue that remains

I cannot walk away

I see you standing

Laughing at my pain

For you feel that it is deserved

That I am the cause of these things

I am tired of trying to prove to you who I am

I am tired of trying to make you understand that I am different

There will come a time when my strength no longer

Depends on the words you feed me

There will come a time when the food I desire

Is no longer from the wicked hands of yours

Will this be because I am no longer under your spell?

Will this be because you are no longer wicked and mean?

These are questions I cannot answer

These are questions I choose to give to God

The questions eat at my mind

Draining the very life out of me

Leaving me fragile and bleak

Please remind me what I am fighting for

My only hope

For the times my chest is about to cave

I can feel the streams of tears rolling down my face

And my knees feel weak below

I remember that this is not in my control

Life gets tough

Things are hard to bear at times

Yet I know I will get through it

I have complete faith that I am being refined because of this

I have complete faith that I will be thankful when this

Is no longer this and instead it is that

More of what was rather than what is

My mind likes to play tricks on me

And my heart leads me astray

My only hope is in you Lord

My only faith comes from the promises you make

I want to crumble

I want to completely fall apart

And in you, I know that is ok

In you I know I am safe

Safe to be me

Safe to be broken

Because through you

And only you

I am made whole

The moment I feel my hope is lost

I remember the Cross

And what you gave

For my simple life to be made

I remain thankful

I remain strong only the only solid rock I have

That is in you Lord

In you

Fatherless People

Fatherless people

Fatherless people

Wake up if you can

In the endless search of fulfillment

In the pointless fight for something more

When will you see the answer?

When will you feel the peace?

My soul cries out

There is more!

There is more to life than what you see

For seeing is not believing

Seeing is the problem

For it is what we see around us that we tend to become

Choose to be more

Choose to be more than the people around you

The internal issue

The core of humanity

The fall of us all

Is the desire to be the person we see

Rather than

The person we were made to be

At the depths of true and eternal happiness

There is a comfort

There is a love

That absorbs all pain

That covers all worry

That shields all

For in the end who do you claim to be?

Who do aspire to be?

Most of us

All of us

Set our eyes on people

When our eyes should be on things above

Should be on our one true Father

Fatherless people

Wake up if you can

Never again

To be deceived
You must first believe

When words are only letters
Placed together in the hopes of forming ideas
You put your  ideas
Into my heart
These ideas slowly held their place and began to grow
Forming walls and rooms
Finally getting so big
That these ideas overflowed from my heart
And into my mind

Making me believe your every action
As true
Yet there was a day
When your words came crumbling down
Leaving my heart just a puddle

Nothing but a city
Destroyed

Destroyed by your deceitful words
By your disgusting actions

My heart will heal
My mind will too recover

It is you that I hope moves on
That I pray sees the truth
Through the blinding darkness
I pray that the light finds you
I pray that you come to know what honesty is
And that deceit is no longer your friend

You have hurt this heart of mine
Never again