Seeking
January 23, 2015
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God looks to see if any
Are seeking to understand
Who’re longing to know His heart
Who really love Him
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Some people are fools
Many say, “There is no God”
“There is no one who does good”
Fear paralyzes
They are overwhelmed with dread
Restore your people with love
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Let me be one who’s seeking
Who walks in the light of love
Who forgives betrayers
One who forgives self
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You alone understand me
Your Spirit is comforting
Explains to the Father’s heart
Meets me where I am
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Give me your vision
I am larger than my pain
Your love is greater
Than all the circumstances
Your promises restore me
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Creator of all
Master of all living things
You know what I need to learn
I sit in silence
Waiting with expectation
I pray you’ll find me watching
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Reflections after reading Psalm 23, 53 and 83 as I consider the world I live today, January 23, 2015.
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Dedicated to my friend, Rick Healy who is a “Seeker.”
Relief or Healing
January 16, 2015
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Where are you God in my pain
I can’t hear you or see you
My grief and fear are mixed
I’m broken inside
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Who will come and help
I cry in desperation
Can you hear me, God
The silence is deafening
In unbelief and belief
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You said for me to “Be Still”
And know that you are God
My anxiety blinds me
My fear imprisons
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I need you to come
Keep your promises you gave
I am overwhelmed
There is no one to comfort
My body and soul feel dead
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I need a resurrection
You understand all my grief
You meet me with compassion
I will wait for you
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You always come at right times
My soul is refined by fire
False thinking I’ve depended on
No longer secures
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I stand waiting for relief
Your comfort is far away
That is the way I’m feeling
I find no relief
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“I have come to heal
To bring hope to the hopeless
Freedom for the prisoners
Give sight to the blind
Bring good news to the poorest
Give all the captives freedom”
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Healing instead of relief
Is the promise He’s given
With mixed feelings do we hear
Choose who we will trust
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Reading Psalm 16 and 46 reveal a narrow path of hope. We all find ourselves at some time in the spot these reflections communicate. When I decided that I did not want relief but I wanted healing above all, a pinhole of light entered my world. I chose to move toward that light with trust and hope to make it through the storm I was in at the time. We all think no one understands. That is a lie. There is One who does and comes to bring that healing that only He can give. I choose to “Be still” trusting His words today.
With power and love
June 26, 2009
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A friend called me and asked how I was doing. I responded, “I am in perfect peace, in a perfect storm.” Later in the evening, I wrote this poem as a reflection of my day.
The storm is raging
The Prince of Peace calls us near
He speaks to the storm
I’ll give attention
To one who calms the storm
With power and love
He spoke with authority
And the sea that was raging
Became still and quieted
A sight to behold
The fear in the storm
Came from inside my being
The storm wasn’t the open sea
But my broken heart
The grief was overwhelming
Pain I had no language for
All of my dreams were shattered
Peace is what I needed
written June 23, 2009
To read a story, about the Prince of Peace calming a storm,
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You’re a work of art
June 9, 2009
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You’re a work of art
This one thing I know is true
If you breathe and are alive
If you think and plan
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My heart has soared with great joy
My mind is captured by love
I experience wonder
An unspoken joy
Growing up is a process
I will never stop learning
Open to listen with care
To those who ring true
I cannot fix anything
But one thing I have learned
Provide a place of safety
And show up with love
I will listen with great care
The same care I was given
Believing in the person
Pointing to the love (way)
A human being
Is marvelous and unique
There’s no one like you
I invite you to accept
The wonder of your own life
You must fight the lies
I have found the tools
A framework to capture
The most basic truths of life
The first one is essential
It’s the foundation you see
It’s basic understanding
You’re a work of art
written June 8, 2009
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