I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have
loved you, so you too should love one another. John 13:34

Monday, August 20, 2012

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.

Thursday, August 16, 2012

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

Thursday, June 28, 2012

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 

Thursday, June 7, 2012

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

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

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

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

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