The stage is set. We're about to begin. They ask for my most valued possession. I open the bidding at an appetizing number. They eat it up, licking their lips and smiling at one another. Like they know something I don't. You patiently wait until the auction reaches an astronomical amount no one would dream of paying. My [...]
My life feels like a candlestick. I once stood tall and I could shine over the tree tops. Then You lit the spark and I've been melting ever since, dissipating down to the forest floor. Instead of looking over the trees, I'm now staring up at them. The colored forest, once full of life, is charred [...]
Gliding now, across the ground. What is left to be found? It feels like there is so little time. Existing in this imaginary wasteland I call my mind. Shouldn't I be planning how to save the most souls? A five-year plan to reach all my goals? Instead of living in a pensieve. Revisiting memories like [...]
Full of enormous potential, but helpless as ever. Can you relate? My hands are tied behind my back. They want to create, to bring life, but they're held in place. So I bash my head against the desk. Over and over to release my pent-up energy. It never works. My pulse punches through my temple [...]
In the name of Jesus, doubt, fear, lust, and worry bow down before the King. All of my sin and even myself are laid low at the feet of Jesus. Unlike them, He lifts my head and brings me to my feet. His eyes say everything I need to know. My Lord hands me a [...]
I shut the doors and pray for rain, I hope you will not do the same. Because this cloud is freaking lame. It has a face that's cut with pain. Draw the shades and come lie down. As the drops soak in the ground. Your tears fill your pillow too. Nothing changes, never new. Repeat [...]
I was going to name this one My Private Parts, referring to the things I prefer not to talk about, but I decided otherwise. Welcome to my mind. You don't need to take your shoes off. Just step inside and have a look around. It's not as spacious as I wish it was, but I [...]
There is an empty hole inside of me, a deep sadness void of lasting friendships. All of my friends growing up either moved away or moved out of my life. I have never really had a best friend. My relationships have always been shallow, though my deep calls out, longing to be heard. But there's no [...]
"Together they will be like warriors in battle trampling their enemy into the mud of the streets. They will fight because the Lord is with them, and they will put the enemy horsemen to shame." // Zechariah 10:5 I see a messenger in the distance. Behind the assailing army, he carries a golden scroll. Screaming [...]
We know we are supposed to surrender all to God, but we really don't know what that looks like. We humbly agree to this undertaking and set off on our journey of surrender and abandonment. Yet once we pass through the city gates and reach the edge of the wild, what lies ahead isn't on [...]
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