Tragic

It is our purpose in life to look for something we cannot see

When we need only to look in the right place

It is our nature to search

But we search in vain when it is what He has already found

It is our place to cry and to grovel in the dust

When He has already offered to heal and to raise us back to life

It is our ambition to wander aimlessly

When in Him we are safely found

He taught us to die to ourselves

As He died with us in mind

But we cannot stop burying Him

And forget that He wants to allow us to rise again with Him

He speaks

Though it is only when we are silent that we can hear

No Despair (unfinished)

Despair is giving up hope that things will change

Giving in to sadness
Leaving no more room for joy
It is forgetting the progress and focusing on the defeats

Letting You Work

Is there a dream You have for me
That I can't grasp without letting go?
Is there a hurt You cannot heal
Without my submitting to the pain?
Is there a day I cannot see
Because I'm mired in today?
Oh precious Lord, please give me strength to let it go.

Written: Oct. 6th, 2010 (Wed. night during a prayer meeting/class)

I Will Praise You In This Storm

Lightning flickers outside my window

Numbs the heart that's struck by pain

Thunder rumbles loud and strongly

Not as loud as this internal rain

Tears seem a hollow consolation

What comfort is there now

What comfort in goodbye?

But I will praise You in this storm

And leave to You the reason why

I will prase You when the light

Is over-shadowed by the dark

Knowing there will be a brighter morn'

Though there are days I can't find words to pray

I will praise You in this storm

Though my path be dark and steep

And though at times You bid me weep

I will praise You in this storm

Written: Sept. 30th, 2010

(Note: This may not be finished yet, and prob. isn't.)