Fill in the blank. ________
The song said “easy,” but for me “hot” is more apt. Therefore, hit the beach.
Month: July 2017
Daily Prompt: Shallow
S wallowing hard, trying not to
H ear the undercurrent of your
A dvice as criticism, trying hard to
L ook past the words to the heart’s
L onging for belonging and
O pen communication in this abundance of
W ords.
There is a trust . . .
There is in trust a writing between the lines.
I trust you, but that trust expects an outcome acceptable to me. My blank slate of surrender has a lot of smudges around the edges—things like “Don’t make it hurt,” “Let all end well,” “Let love be stronger than hate.”
There is in trust a whining between the lines
that holds hands unclenched, but my heart is hidden behind my back with fingers crossed.
Is there a kind of trust without the small print—Yours and mine. A trust that knows I and my loved ones and my cares are in the arms of Someone not only able but willing to do what is good—
no matter what that looks like.
There is a trust, and I am learning and yearning for it.
My Book of Uncommon Prayers: Willing To Be Defeated
I used to be cocksure,
willing to trample fragile souls for the sake of being right. And
it hurts to think I was so unlike Your sacrificial kindness, so unlike Your bleeding, selfless truth.
May I be willing to be defeated to win one. May I grow accustomed to embarrassment to at least appear humble as the pride prickles are chiseled away—one by one, by weary one.
My kingdom looks ever dim in the bright hues of Your shining presence—and may all see You
in spite of me.
If I would feed on Your words more than I feed on my need, I would be so much more nourished
with life to give.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Unusual
Unusual to see zombies out in the day,
stalking the beach.
My Book of Uncommon Prayers: There is a line . . .
There is a line in the sand, and I dare not cross—
but funny thing about sand and funny thing about lines,
they wash away with beating waves, leaving a skimming reflection where surety used to be. So maybe instead of lines in the sand, I should head into the surf and just ride out these waves.
But some days I feel more infidel than faithful.
When the press is great and rescue far off, help me not to fail
but to fall
into you.
Without You, I will sink in the undertow and be lost.
Are Your arms bigger than my sorrows, Your view wider than my narrow vision, Your heart tougher than my doctrine, Your compassion deeper than my loss, Your love hotter than my tears?
If there is a way that I must walk, can it be a yes-way, a water-walking way—a path of fullness and yeses.
So often I walk in these in-betweens, chained to an accumulated load that fills my soul with the hollow No.
Piercing doubt, filling, spilling. Knocked sideways. Sinking in the swells.
But I am ready for the Yes, Lord, not a way that seems right,
but is right.
No variance to the right or left, but straight-ahead trust
to joy, unspeakable peace, unbreatheable, that just is.
When the press is great and rescue far off, help me not to fail
but to fall
into you.
Significance
Sensing the need to feel
Important, –> that thoughts, actions, and
Gifts really matter, not just in the big scheme of things,
Not just ticks on nature’s timepiece,
Intertwined with myriad others, who
Fashion a purposeful life, a fanciful life, going somewhere–>
It is inbuilt, this need to belong, this feeling that
Creation matters, that we matter,
And that I as one lone voice matter,
Not just as a cog in a
Cosmic wheel–> but as imagio deo–
Everlasting because He has given me significance.
O-o-o-o-klahoma! ♫ ♬♫ ♬
Well, I think that audition went rather well!
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