Life as a Tree

Imagine life as a tree.
Branches reaching high!
Hiding the dead ones.
Beautiful leaves.
Concealing the brown.
A storm comes.
Raging torrents blow the dead to the ground.
And gorgeous sheets of rain bring rejuvenating life.
Maybe lightning strikes
Tears a good healthy branch away.
Why? Why a healthy branch?
But the rain still brings life and hope.
Life and Hope.
Strength is restored!
And the remaining branches grow and stretch.
Closer to The rain clouds.

Living Suspense

Figuring out the movie before the audience.
Knowing the next turn before you've seen it.
An expectation met in the plot of fiction.
But now I'm figuring out the secrets of my own life.
The foreshadowing events that have led
To new clues and conclusions.
A horrific outcome with detrimental implications.
But I will wait to see what truly lies ahead.
And focus on the obvious realities of life.
And try not to be
living suspense.

God Wants Faith!

You bought the Whole world with your blood.
You were the perfect, sacrificial lamb that has blotted out our sins.
But it was never the sacrifice that saved.
It was their faith that made them righteous.
So true today!
It is simply because of our faith
In Christ's redeeming act
That God considers us blameless.
Righteous.
When the Atoning sacrifice was made,
It was for all of Israel,
However, not all of Israel was saved,
Because not all of Israel trusted
In the redeeming grace of God,
through the sacrifice.
How does this work?
Am I on the right track?
Christ did not just die for the sins
Of those He knew would believe.
He died for everyone's sins,
But that's not the only thing that brings salvation.
God Wants Faith!

Out of Time

What a struggle!
What a journey!
What a chance!
And we only get one!
Why are we SO concerned with doing it "right" the first time?
When there isn't going to be a second?
Why not tackle life HEAD ON!
not OFF!
This isn't the practice round!
Heck! there IS NO ROUND!
We are all running our own races.
Chasing God's glory till that inexplicable day.
When we will receive the prize!
THE PRIZE!!!
Simply, standing in His GLORY!
What other prize do i WANT to run for?!
Run your race with this in mind:
God's glory is the prize I run for,
The remainder of life's struggles will fall into place.

IT WILL BE AMAZING!
Think of the awesome things that bring us pleasure right now!
Music, Art, Sports, Flavors, Sights, Relationships, to infinity!
The reason we enjoy these things.
Is because God had a hand in it all!
Little bits of His Glory are found in everyday life.
Look for them.
They will remind you why you are running your race.
"And Jack.
Remember to run."

My Rubbermaids

I left the memories in a rubbermaid.
I left my heart in a plastic box.
All of the random memorabilia, saved.
But for what?
It isn't with me.
Always reminding me
how i wished to choose
a different life than this.
But maybe.
I'm not tied down anymore.
By home or it's implications.
There are car loads of information
that i would have never found anywhere else.
But it is my turn to get off the bus and start walking.
I'm walking my own walk, but it still resembles my home walk.
Just not governed by it.
A thought.

Monsters Inc.

Is EVERYTHING you say
just a classy FRONT room
to a hairy, hateful monster
you hide in your BACK room?

Sometimes...
...when sitting in your lavish lounge
...i hear a growl.
But you SWEAR! it was the TV next door...
...Even yesterday...
...i found some fur in the
glass
of
water you offered me...
...But you SWORE! it must have fallen from my head...

Someday,
That beast will grow
to a size, unmanageable.
And you will call me,
in the middle of the night.
screaming:
HELP!HELP!ICAN'THIDEITANYMORE!ITISSOOBVIOUSTHATITSLIVINGWITHME!
AND
THERE IS NOTHING
I CAN DO TO KILL IT!
...without your help?...

Good News!

I'm the one that wrote
the "Idiot's Guide to
Killing Obnoxiously,
Overpowering Monsters,
That Control Your Life"!

A Puzzling Love

Did you know that...

I love you
through and through
all the time
no matter what you do?

And if you fall and break
I'll take the time it takes
to mend your heart
with glue and tape.

Your heart maybe
in a different shape
when i'm done,
but it will be
the perfect puzzle piece
to finish
my Thomas Kinkade.

A Broken Circle

Did you feel malevolent too?
Who's heart did you shake?
Did they for give you too?
Or did they just slap your face?

Forgiveness often comes when you least expect it.
I have received and i have tried to give it.
But when i expected it the most.
I was denied it.

Bitter like coffee...after it sits in its own grounds.
Harsh like the wind...when it swirls all around.

I wanted forgiveness, but none was found.
They needed forgiveness now the choice has come around.

The histories that rot my veins.
No longer control my brain.

FORGIVEN.
(Stamped)

"Have a chip or two.
Have a chip or 2.
You might like forgiving some day too."

Broom Closet Companions

Do you think thoughts that no one would ever share?
Do you think mops are people who don't care?
They are.
And brooms are people who can't get over their spiked hair.
Think with me, now, of people who listen.
People with 2 ears.
People with two ears.
People who hear.
AND.
Evaluate what you say.
Do you like thinking thoughts and sharing them with the wall?
Share them with ears.
Share your thoughts with 2 ears that hear.
Not mops and brooms who only look in mirrors.

Me Toca

Kick me the ball.
Throw me the pass.
Its my turn to talk.
I won't give up this chance.

I've got a word.
A thought in my head.
It seldom feels right.
Here's what has to be said.

I won't continue life.
If you can't continue with me, friend.
And my love for you won't die.
'Cause on you...
It doesn't depend.

Alice's Savior

It's a spin to the bottomless.
A Deep Dark Dungeon.
Not in your mind.
But in your breath.
And all around your Heart.
There is no fall, only spin.
There is nothing to place a foot upon.
For down is always changing.
Ground is forever confused.
To bring us into everlasting.
Shame.
But You.
You reached.
You gathered the mess.
You organized.
You reassured the surroundings that they were at home.
And You.
Became that foothold.
That sanity to insanity.
That strength to insecurity.
That serenity to this chaotic self-made plan.
You Are:

TLTTYWTH

The last thing that you want to hear:
is that you've been wasting time
that you've been investing in pointless lives
that you've been living for the wrong reason
that you've been loving the wrong person
that you've been missing the wrong home
that you've been misguided
i don't think its true.
i won't believe it.
not out of ignorance.
but out of hope.
that everyone around doesn't knows it all.
The Last Thing That You Want To Hear:

Conclusive Motivation

We all have different motives in life.
Some are good.
Some are Bad.
However.
In spite of our motives.
We are all subject to life.
We are all responsible to come
to the
same
basic conclusion:

Psycho-style-stalkers

When your body grows tired,
when your thoughts are swerving too the right.
when your face shows evidence of being wired
pop a pill. go

If you find yourself speaking excessively
If you find yourself dreaming inexplicably
If you find a stowaway thought in your mind.
pop a pill. no

Finally because pills will work
not. there is only one life source after a
nap. dig deep and breathe deep and live deep
and
sleep
deep
.