Friday, January 29, 2010

Closer- John Mark McMillan

Come closer, closer to me.
Find me broken, find me bleedin'
cause I need more now than a fairy tale,
a god who lives in a book.
I need someone real.

So would you come?
Would you come?
If i begged you, would you come closer to me now?

Come closer, closer to me.
Find me broken, find me on my knees,
cause I need more now than philosophy.
Some god in outer space doesn't mean anything to me.

So would you come?
Would you come?
If I begged you, would you come closer to me now?
Would you come?
Would you come?
If i begged you, would you come closer to me now?

Son of David, do not pass me by,
cause I am naked,
I'm poor and I'm blind.
Son of david, don't pass me by,
cause I am naked,
I'm poor and I'm blind.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Rolling on a River - Nathan Noble


This is from my awesome co-worker and BSSM classmate Nathan Noble who sometimes has the ability to put words to some of the music inside my heart... here it goes:

Rolling on a river
Away from striving and unrest
I come to lean upon Your chest
From the shallows into the deep.

My movements slowed
By the deepening swell
I waver, looking back
To the shore and the firmer track
The solid ground and quicker step.

But it's too late now
The hold is strong
My quivering hands
No longer strive
To go back or to even try
To reach the other side.

My eyes are turned as they strain
To see what will be coming then
Round the bend
But all I see is more the same
The current rolling down and down
An endless path I travel on.

My feet lose hold
Of the muddy ground
It's as if I've died
Or just begun
To slip into Jacob's dream
And climbing find the real thing
As I fall asleep
I open my eyes
And look to see
As for the very first time.


Saturday, January 9, 2010

Today is the day!

I haven't been here in a long time, and I'm starting to think writing is probably not my thing, but I think I can still use it as a tool for sharing the music that touches me or random articles I come across and I identify with... so here is one I'm still processing and just absolutely loved! Ready?

Jason Vallotton: Today is the day!

Here is a letter that I wrote a while ago. Enjoy. Today is the day, there will never be another today and each one of these is a gift that will never be given again. Wake up from slumber, wipe the sleep from your eyes and live. Go on and live. Today is the day to start, there is not a good enough reason not to!
This life is not mine, I am merely a renter if you will, borrowing this body to steward what He has given me. I am a dream that a body has been wrapped around, accountable for each decision I carefully make. I am fully aware that in each day lies the opportunity for eternity to be touched, if I will only seize the day.
My life will be measured by what it cost me to get to where I am, if I really learned to love and how much I sacrificed for another’s gain. When I am gone, when my life is spent, I will be boiled down to these things that I have left behind. I will not care about how much I was hurt, how angry I became or how depressed I was. These are true emotions but they are not foundations to a healthy life. We must all pass through these times and respect them, but don’t make depression or anger a roommate; misery is his only friends.
Life is short, life is unpredictable. I only get one shot at it and for the most part, there are no re-do’s. Don’t get me wrong, I may go around the mountain more than once but I can’t turn the clock back. Seize the day, take advantage of each moment, even if it is not the moment that you wanted or expected, this is the moment that you are in. Steward each one and you can be sure that growth will be the fruit of your labor.
There was once a man born with great promise. The Lord told him that he would be blessed and that his family would serve him because he was favored. Joseph the young man was careless with his promises and in his zeal he provoked his brothers to jealousy. The long and short of it is that his brothers did not really like the idea of serving him; they plotted to ruin his life, selling him into slavery. Joseph found himself in a precarious situation. He was sold to a very prominent man in the government; over time he became a man of influence and he gained favor with his master. For the young man, life was looking promising again, he had made it through betrayal, through the fear of the unknown and last, he gained influence with powerful men. Seems as though the story should end here but it doesn’t, Joseph was unjustly accused of sleeping with his master’s wife and once again he found himself in a helpless situation, he was in prison.
Through a series of events, Joseph, while still in prison interprets a dream for the king that no one else could interpret. He gains favor with the king once again and soon finds himself overseeing the king’s land and taking care of the people in that land. Eventually the promise that the Lord gave to him as a young man came to pass. He miraculously saves his family from starvation. Great reconciliation happened that day for the whole family and the young man was restored to his father.
Like Joseph, often times we do not get to choose the moments that we are in, we just get the opportunity to choose what happens through us. I said it before and I will say it again. I am a dream that a body is wrapped around. I have been created for a purpose, specially made, one of a kind. I won’t stay here long for I am only a visitor sowing into eternity.
Place vision on like Raybans, keep destiny in sight knowing that it is much grater than you, much larger than what you can handle. You are like Noah called to build something that you have never built before and never seen. It will take crazy blind faith and the ability to imagine way beyond your minds capacity.
Where do you start? Today. There is no better time than today, the grass is always greener and tomorrow always looks more promising. But you will never have today again. Start now and you will never be sorry that today was the first step toward your dreams. How do you start? Steward the little things that the Lord has brought into your life, be faithful with them and you will be given more. Dream big, and take risk. You will never be sorry at the end of your days for taking risk and trying. Just make sure that you are not the only decision maker in your life. But by all means, today is the day…
Today is your day; it is the first step in the long walk toward you dreams. Life will not come to you, you must go after it and grab it, knowing that it is much greater than what it seems. Skip today and it will be gone forever, to never return. Listen to my words and follow my lead, don’t worry about what you don’t know because on the way you will learn. Life is so much so much greater than I could even say. So wake up from your sleep and wipe off the tears because today is your day…