...I ain't settlin' for just gettin' by... had enough of so so... for the rest of my life.... tired of shootin' to low.... so raise the bar high.... just enough ain't enough this time...I ain't settlin'.... for anything less than everything....
~ SUGARLAND
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Second Chances
Second chances... are always fun with a slight timidness within the heart.
Lately, thoughts have swarmed my mind about second chances and how often one takes the beauty of this life to make a mess of it.
Well, the truth is...life is messy, and there are going to be times that one will miss their boat. That boat may take them to another shore and allow them to see what could have been...but when one becomes timid and finds it hard to move on...there will always be a hand to guide the way. It's moment of clarity will strike and the anchor will set beneath the sand.
There is peace when the second chance is granted...and no matter how hard one tries to escape the timidness, it must be embraced...to find the pureness and fate behind the beauty of having a second chance granted.
Lately, thoughts have swarmed my mind about second chances and how often one takes the beauty of this life to make a mess of it.
Well, the truth is...life is messy, and there are going to be times that one will miss their boat. That boat may take them to another shore and allow them to see what could have been...but when one becomes timid and finds it hard to move on...there will always be a hand to guide the way. It's moment of clarity will strike and the anchor will set beneath the sand.
There is peace when the second chance is granted...and no matter how hard one tries to escape the timidness, it must be embraced...to find the pureness and fate behind the beauty of having a second chance granted.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Plans
For I know the plans I have for you; declares the Lord
Plans to prosper you and not harm you,
Plans to give you a hope and a future.
Jeremiah 29:11
Plans to prosper you and not harm you,
Plans to give you a hope and a future.
Jeremiah 29:11
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Sky of Hope
In moments where the memories fade and the darkness creeps in and the questioning begins...
These are the moments to believe...
Believe and lean not on your own understanding....but follow the path that the Creator envisions for you to walk...no matter how treacherous or how enduring it may seem...there is destiny written in the sky of hope.
It's the rainy day... and the storm clears...and the biggest and brightest rainbow appears...leaving a memory that hope and love will always prevail.
The sky of hope has a beauty and luster that captures the soul and gives the heart the courage and magic to believe...
These are the moments to believe...
Believe and lean not on your own understanding....but follow the path that the Creator envisions for you to walk...no matter how treacherous or how enduring it may seem...there is destiny written in the sky of hope.
It's the rainy day... and the storm clears...and the biggest and brightest rainbow appears...leaving a memory that hope and love will always prevail.
The sky of hope has a beauty and luster that captures the soul and gives the heart the courage and magic to believe...
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Glimpse of Encouragement
Earlier last week a friend sent me a text with some verses out of Lamentations to encourage me through my world wind of transition. I sat to read them after she sent me the text, and really thought that the whole chapter reflected my entire walk the last several years. Exactly a week later, tonight...the verses that my friend had sent me a week prior were read aloud at a bible study that I attended.
God sends us the words that we need to hear....when we need to hear them. He is working when we can't see...and loves us even in His time of silence. During those times we must listen closely and feel His love through the glimpses of encouragement.
I think many people feel that at certain times in their lives they have been afflicted...simply besieged and surrounded by hardship. Hardship can be different for everyone, for what might be easy for one person is a mountain for another person.
I believe that these verses from the book of Lamentations reflect how hope will shine through the hardship.
Lamentations 3: 1-9
vs 1: I am a man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
vs 2: He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness rather than light:
vs 3: Indeed he has turned his hand against me again, and again, all day long.
vs 4: He has made my skin and my flesh grow old and has broken my bones.
vs 5: He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
vs 6: He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead.
vs 7: He has walled me in so I can not escape, he has weighed me down with chains.
vs 8: Even when I call out or cry for help, he shuts out my prayer.
vs. 9: He has barred my way will blocks of stone; He has made path crooked....
Lamentations: 3: 25-26; 28-29; 31- 33
vs 25:The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him;
vs 26: It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
vs 28: Let him sit alone in silence for the Lord has laid it on him.
vs 29: Let him bury his face in the dust there may yet be hope.
vs 31: For we are not cast off by the Lord forever.
vs 32: Though He brings grief he will show compassion, so great is His unfailing love.
vs 33: For he does not not willingly bring affliction or grief to the children of men.
God sends us the words that we need to hear....when we need to hear them. He is working when we can't see...and loves us even in His time of silence. During those times we must listen closely and feel His love through the glimpses of encouragement.
I think many people feel that at certain times in their lives they have been afflicted...simply besieged and surrounded by hardship. Hardship can be different for everyone, for what might be easy for one person is a mountain for another person.
I believe that these verses from the book of Lamentations reflect how hope will shine through the hardship.
Lamentations 3: 1-9
vs 1: I am a man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
vs 2: He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness rather than light:
vs 3: Indeed he has turned his hand against me again, and again, all day long.
vs 4: He has made my skin and my flesh grow old and has broken my bones.
vs 5: He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
vs 6: He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead.
vs 7: He has walled me in so I can not escape, he has weighed me down with chains.
vs 8: Even when I call out or cry for help, he shuts out my prayer.
vs. 9: He has barred my way will blocks of stone; He has made path crooked....
Lamentations: 3: 25-26; 28-29; 31- 33
vs 25:The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him;
vs 26: It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
vs 28: Let him sit alone in silence for the Lord has laid it on him.
vs 29: Let him bury his face in the dust there may yet be hope.
vs 31: For we are not cast off by the Lord forever.
vs 32: Though He brings grief he will show compassion, so great is His unfailing love.
vs 33: For he does not not willingly bring affliction or grief to the children of men.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Time to Wait
There is nothing better than time...
Time to breathe
Time to work
Time to play
Time to relax
Time to take flight
Time to embrace
Time to sit
Time to believe
Time to shine
Time to pray
Time to wait....
Time builds patience and strength...and retreats the heart to peace....
Time suspends and gives wings for the promise to flutter...
Embrace the moments where time is the only constant...for the beauty in that space will unveil.
Time to breathe
Time to work
Time to play
Time to relax
Time to take flight
Time to embrace
Time to sit
Time to believe
Time to shine
Time to pray
Time to wait....
Time builds patience and strength...and retreats the heart to peace....
Time suspends and gives wings for the promise to flutter...
Embrace the moments where time is the only constant...for the beauty in that space will unveil.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Perplexity
Perplexing thoughts cloud the mind and causes one to take a step back. When the step back is taken, one realizes that maybe the perception of the other was slightly different. Perceptions are perceived in different ways and people take ideas and make them sway to their liking. Lately this tune of life has swayed me upside down and left me suspended for a moment. It's about walking the straight path and keeping one foot in front of the other so that I don't get off that suspended path...
Perplexity of the soul, has caused this path to sway in my heart...
I am not sure why nothing makes sense nor how to make the music sing a different tune...
I know that the perception can sway the tune and cause the perplexing soul to grow and leave me at peace...
It's all about the tune that we create within ourselves that saves the perception of the perplexity.
Perplexity of the soul, has caused this path to sway in my heart...
I am not sure why nothing makes sense nor how to make the music sing a different tune...
I know that the perception can sway the tune and cause the perplexing soul to grow and leave me at peace...
It's all about the tune that we create within ourselves that saves the perception of the perplexity.
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