Today I Am Afraid

Today Lord, I am afraid

I know You are proud

Of the steps I have made

Beyond the safety of my boat

When I chose to be brave

Yet I find that today

Fear has darkened the steps

That I previously made

And I find myself sinking

Into that watery grave

Oh Peter, I understand

When confidence wavers

In the heart of a man

Under the pressure of fear

You can no longer stand

Yet in the midst of those waters

You reached out your hand

And found yourself grasped

Tight to the Son of Man

And I know that even today

As I struggle with fear

I may still reach out my hand

To the One who is near.

The Gift

The Gift

My dearest of friends
Take this moment to listen
As I share from His heart
A Love Story that’s written

Not found in present day
But before time began
A Gift to us was fashioned
In the form of a Man

To start from the beginning
Let us step back rewind
Tracing the footsteps of history
To the birthplace of time

Before the world was yet formed
Upon the waters of the deep
Hovered the Presence of One,
The Holy Trinity

Though Their heart was complete
A Summation of Perfection
Yet within Them so desired
Another Connection

An eternal love story
So began in God’s heart
Birthing a plan that
Divine imagination sparked

I shall fashion a people
To be My Bride of Perfection
In My Image created
And Worthy of My affection

From their very first breath
I will care for their needs
And no action or decision
Will keep them far from Me

And at Love’s perfect moment
Creation and Creator will collide
For this My Son will be given
So that within them I shall reside

Yet He knew True Devotion
Must be chosen freely
Not forced from obligation
Or any form of duty

He knew our love would fail
And still prepared His heart
To set a costly plan in motion
To never be apart

Through words of the prophets
He spoke this mystery
Yet few had understood
The meaning of Love’s prophesy

While a world was unaware
One unsuspecting midnight
The promise was fulfilled with
A Baby born beneath starlight

Bound in heaven’s glory
And angels’ proclamation
The entrance of a King
Confounded expectation

Worshipped from near and far
With man’s deepest affection
This Gift grew in stature
Wrapped in Holy Perfection

In thirty three years
the path of reconciliation
Was paved by the Son of Man
For every tribe, tongue and nation

And at His appointed time
This Son hung on a Tree
Laying down His life
For the whole world to see

The mountainsides clamored
Upon His one final breath
And the veil was torn in two
As all creation wept

The skies became enshrouded
And all was turned to night
As death was defeated
In one single swipe

The chapter of this love story
Ends in Heaven’s home
And for the rest of eternity
We will be His alone

And so my dear friends
What then is our response?
To such a gift from this One
Who paid the highest cost?

It’s not your own striving
Or your own merit to produce
But rather it’s your yielded
Heart that He longs just to choose

Because YOU are the gift
That His heart so desires
YOU are from the beginning
What this Love story inspired

And though the price of His Gift is
Beyond all earthly measure
Yet not one penny is owed
For it is a freely given Treasure

And when you chose to receive
This free Gift from the King
Your love for Him in response
Is the Gift that you can bring

For you were written in His heart
Before time had begun
And prepared for you a Gift of
His only begotten Son

So open up your heart to Him
And let this Love story inside
For this reason He chose You
As His Beloved and Bride

Shall I Leap?

A journey of faith into future unknown

As a child I’ve longed, even now as I’m grown

To give of myself in whatever the part

That comes from a dream of His very own Heart

For the sake of His children a Love to be sown

That is filled with His Presence wherever I go

Until I’ve traveled beyond this world’s distant shore

And knocked at the footsteps of Heaven’s open door

In this season I find soon to be leaving 

Thankful I am of how He has sustained me

Though my heart feels somewhat nervous and frightened

Set still are my eyes beyond this horizon

For heaven’s bright home has beckoned me still

And I long for a peak through Its windowsill

The pathway seems far and the valley so deep

But into the unknown from this cliff I now leap

What lies beyond this expanse I do not know 

Perhaps my wings shall fail and I perish below

But who would I become if I never did try? 

For perhaps I will find that indeed I can Fly.

Love Goes to War

Perfect love CASTS OUT fear. It goes to war on your behalf.

The Fruits of the Spirit are not passive. They are active and always victorious, and they go to war on your behalf. Let your heart be saturated in the fruits of the Spirit. Let His perfect Love cast out all fear and all doubt. Let Joy go to war for you against despair. Let Peace come against all the fiery darts, let it prevail against the gates of hell. Let it command the waves of your storm into submission. Let Perseverance drive you through the darkness to rescue His lost and bring them into His glorious light. Let His Patience bear you beyond the lies and the seasons that the enemy presses against you. Let Patience finish Its work, so that you may be mature and complete not lacking anything. Let Faithfulness be your rear guard, in assurance that He is always faithful to rescue, always faithful to redeem, and faithful to build you into the righteousness in Christ Jesus, His chosen people. The lovers of His Soul and His inheritance from among the nations.

That we would be His, and He would be ours. That we would be in Him as He is in us. For nothing can come against it, nothing can defeat it. Let His Fruit saturate your entire being, and transform you in the confidence of your destiny.

You are LOVED. For the Fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness gentleness and self control. And against such there is no law.

What Can Words Say?

WORDS.

What can words say?

Like a drop in a bucket, can they overflow the ocean?

Can they change the current of history’s commotion?

Does it reach beyond iron walls erected in men?

Can it heal the broken hearts longing to mend?

WORDS.

What can words do? 

Words that cut like the blade of a knife-

Can vanquish a home in one single swipe.

They bring down cities in utter destruction, 

And build with the same lips a brand new construction.

WORDS. 

What words are true?

Can words change a nation back to origin’s zeal?

To remember the past and teach future to heal?

Words that aren’t dripped in cunning and greed,

But filled with such love through action and deed.

WORDS.

What will your words be?

Will they strengthen a heart to face giants again?

Or teach youths to follow their Savior and Friend?

Will they speak wisdom through currents of love

That comes from the heart of Him Whose above?

WORDS.

What words will you choose to release here today-

That will become the foundations of tomorrow’s pathway?  

For in the Bible it says that words are like honey-

Both sweet to the soul and health to the body.

So I charge you my friends with this final word-

Let His Voice through your lips be the one that is heard.

A God-Given Sound

What is your true voice

Meant to rise above the noise

Is it just another sound

That will add to the crowd?

With love we must speak

Truth fully complete

As every single person

Was created unique

Within each human I see

Storehouses untouched

Lacking confidence to be

This light to the world

That I already see

Let your beauty shine out

With your God-given sound

And silence the din

Of the bickering crowd

What’s the sound of your voice

Let it rise above the noise

It can be written or spoken

A song, story or poem

Perhaps it is a movement

That is wordless in sound

But reaches into hearts

With your dancing around

Perhaps with your hands

Will you fulfill God’s plan

Don’t doubt your potential

For I believe that you can

Were you born for the stage

Or righteous cause to wage

Or maybe with children

you were meant to engage

Whatever your sound

It is meant to be found

Awaken to His call

And display His renown

Do nations make you groan

With a longing to roam

And set free the captives

Within lands still unknown

Do you love through your lips

And the extravagant gift

Or do you burn to rise up

With a heart fully equipped

So let your voice be found

In that God-given sound

To silence the din

Of the bickering crowd

Will you bind together

As one and stand tall

Be the strength for the broken

The one feeling so small

To the fathers and mothers

My sisters and brothers

Let one people unite

And your hearts discover

That He gave you a voice

To rise above the noise

Of the bickering crowd

With your God-given sound

Must I Wait Still My Dear?

Lord I long to move on to new things,

Am I worthy to unleash this dream-

That is burning within to be set free?

I cannot remain in this portion forever,

My back has been bent from the pressure,

And my heart straining with fissures.

I was created to sing my heart song-

And to stay in others dreams feels so wrong,

Let me step into this life You have made-

For I long to run towards the things that I crave-

And feel the freedom of Your Spirit fresh everyday.

Let my life awaken to the reason I am here-

I will not just cower beneath the blanket of fear,

Nor waste anymore more time in frivolous games,

For I was created to worship and proclaim- 

With the song of my life–Your great and Holy Name.

For I can feel my future close and pressing so near-

Let Your answer be yes, rather than wait still My dear.

Dear Alice

My Dear Alice-


Through the looking glass once did you peer

And see a world unknown drawing so near


Was a call upon your heart pulling you down

Into the rabbit hole deep with that echoing sound


Did you know where your feet soon would stand

Or know what you would find in this strange new land


Alice, from there did you find your pathway home

Please tell me the way–how did you know?


For my heart’s lost in time down this deep rabbit hole

And I cannot stop exploring this world of unknown


Is it safe here to trod? That I do not know

But still I find that down the rabbit hole I go


The pulse of Time’s heart plays games with my mind

And my understanding of self is beginning to unwind


So far away seems the world that I know

As this longing to go deeper continues to grow


For time has no cause here nor fight to the death

My lungs are confused to find their own breath


What season is passing, Alice–do you know?

For down the rabbit hole deeper I go


Unknowing this future that lies before me

Enshrouded within a new world I cannot see


Now lost to the familiar of whence I have been

Down deeper the rabbit hole I go yet again.

Divine Romance

He wrote the greatest Love Story to you ever written. But He has not stopped writing to you. He pours out upon the pages of His heart His longing for you. Everyday, He writes a new page, a new chapter, eagerly anticipating how to reveal His adoration for you. He longs to sing His melody of love over you. Let yourself dwell upon the pages of His heart and be swept up into the awaiting arms of the Divine Romance. You are a Bride worthy of the King.

Heaven’s Horizon

A wandering soul moving ever forward

Sets sail upon a vast horizon

Seeking what lies beyond understanding

And moor upon conscious knowledge

Propelled upon a vessel birthed of personal experiences 

Found in Him rising above the waters

And spirited away in a course set beyond

With Dreams too large for one heart to hold

Within each unknown season shipwreck presses against the steady course

But in His Spirit empowerment rises yet again

Through the waters of circumstances

And beyond this stormy course

The vessel that kept aloft one’s own heart 

Now lends to another

Fellow sojourners emerging from shipwrecked waters

Find a kindred spirit and a caring heart

To bear them through a season of their journey 

Long in need of rest and rejuvenation 

And soon find hope upon that vast horizon once again

Some may find their journeys inevitably intertwined

Two captains divinely merged upon one vessel

And together they chase that vast horizon 

Enshrouding Heaven’s Home.