Inside Out

Your name on my lips
Three words on my mind
My heart all a flutter
The reason I cannot find
What is it about you
That turns me all about?
What is the reason
I seem so inside out?
The words and expressions
They all escape me
There is not explanation
For what you do to me
I cannot put into words
The way that I feel
A dream, a fantasy
Can this be real?

Our Daydream Beneath A Tree

The grass was soft and my body felt it
The sky was blue and my eyes beheld it
The breeze was cool and my arms sensed it
The tree was shady and my skin thanked it

Your touch was warm and my body liked it
Your kiss was light and my lips loved it
Your voice was tender and my ears embraced it
Your love was tangible and my heart drank it

Like a daydream it came
Like a dream come true it went
A moment to last forever
Eternity found in a moment
My heart races with the memory
My breath is stolen by the thought

My hands miss your hands
My lips, your lips
My eyes miss your face
My ears, the sound of your sweet voice
My mind daydreams of you as
My heart longs for your embrace

Be not far from me
You are but a thought away
Remember the daydream
And I will not be far from you
Connected in those moments
Forever bonded by those memories

Fireside chats and morning naps
These are the things that help me relax
These are the things to bring up the slack
Don't look back
Old friends left alone on the road behind
New friends stand in the distance you find
It's not something to blow your mind
Don't press rewind
Fog blurred vision in an unknown mission
It's not logic nor emotion, it's a decision
And you made it because of his Son
Don't stop wishin'
I'll keep the pace as long as I see your face
There is no first and there is no last place
There is just those who have and haven't accepted grace
Don't lose faith
There was evening and there was morning, the sixth day
Then came a new friend with which to play
Then the deception that caused us to fall away
Don't go, stay
He placed in you a need, but not something to feed
Seek first His kingdom and then you will succeed
He will satisfy you inside and you will be freed
Don't you leave
Have patience my friend, you will find in the end
A purpose, an indentity, a hand to help mend
The wounds, the tears created everytime you sinned

I know a lot of rainday survivors
I have met a lot of sunday drivers
I get destracted by the body dividers
Let's unite all the dead church revivers
Don't forget the spiritual reminders
And don't follow the traditional rewinders
Look for the Yahweh insiders
And forget all that man's religion requires
Let's be whatever He desires
Let's be the cleansing, fueling fires
No more back stabbing biters
No more first impression hires
I want stories of the martyrs
I need love that knows no borders
Where is God?! Give Him back you horders!
I need help with the weight on my shoulders
Is there hope as we get older?
Where is relief in todays stuffed folders?
I need peace like when Jesus told her
"Where are all of your condemners?"
For I know that we are all sinners
So why can't we just be winners?
Instead I see quiters
And hatred shared over dinners
We get hurt by the constant dividers
But we need to be dead church revivers
Then we can all be rainday survivors.

The Beauty In Me

I just want you to know
I don’t really like snow
But it’s pure white beauty
Helps me to see
All the beauty
That you see in me

So I will endure winter
Until I reach summer
Looking for the wonder
So I can see
All the beauty
That you see in me

With grace and mercy
You cover the cursing
That so often hurts me
And won’t let me see
All the beauty
That you see in me

And it is with thanks
That I stand on the banks
Of Jordan’s river
Where I rediscover
All the beauty
That you see in me

The Treasure Inside

If I were an apple, would you eat me so you could be fed? Would you cut me open to find the seeds inside that, if planted, will produce a tree with unknown quantities of reproduction?

If you were an apple, would you let me eat you so I could be fed? Would you allow me to cut you open so I may plant the seeds found inside?

If you knew you had exactly what someone else needed to survive could you let someone open you up to get it?

Inside me and inside you is found a treasure placed their by our Creator meant to bless someone else. Are you willing to be vulnerable so you can also be useful?

"Then Jesus said to his disciples, 'If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it.'" (Matthew 16:24-25)

Broken Twigs and Fallen Limbs

There is a place I do not know
A place I know I cannot go
There is a place I want to be
A place with peace and tall green trees
There is a life I do not live
A life I know I cannot give
There is a life outside of me
A life with joy, not misery
There is a will but not a way
A will to do what I cannot say
There is a will inside of me
A will to share, to heal, to be