Sunday, February 23, 2014

This is a War


"This is a call to arms, gather soldiers. Time to go to war. This is a battle call, brothers and sisters. Time to go to war."
                                         ~30 Seconds to Mars


~This is a War~


This is a war.
This is a war based on facts and truth.
This is a war of faith.
This is a war against black smoke and deception.


This is a war of the flesh.
This is a war of evil.
This is a war of puppetry.
This is a war against the one who holds the deceptive strings.


He could make me dance and make me sing. 
He could make me kill those that I love the most.
He could make me lust and fornicate my day away. 
He could make me prideful and deny what I love.


But this will not happen today.
For I have a God that breaks all my chains.
But this will not happen today.
For my spirit has been won over by the blood. 


Yes, I struggle.
Yes, I am not the best.
Yes, I am not perfect.
But yes, I serve the one who is.


Satan is real.
Demons are real.
But know this,
My God is also real, and His power is Love.
And his power will purify all.


This is a war of the heart.
This is the war of our spirits. 
This is a war, take your side.
I will pick the side of the Glorious one.
Forever and ever, amen.

Monday, February 17, 2014

Scenarios in my Head


"Let Him light your path
And love someone, yeah
Let Him light your path
And love someone
You're not the jury or the judge
Quit acting out the fear that you call love
Put your God badge down
And love someone"
                                        ~Fiction Family

~Scenarios in my Head~

Am I alone down here, making up scenarios in my head? 
Am I alone down here, struggling to do what is right?
Religion is down here, and God is down here I believe.

Am I alone down here, with my fire that I use to burn bridges made by false hope?
Are we alone down here, rescuing the hearts that defeated themselves?
Are we alone down here, debating the dichotomy of life?
Hell is overcome down here, but religion keeps it alive.
Are we alone down here, praising man instead of God?   

We are, we are together alone and together again.
We are thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
We are, we are themes and plots orchestrated by many and one.
We are interested in Hell and Heaven and we are the ones in between.
We are, we are part of this world but we are not of their ways. 

Am I alone down here, floating and reaching?
Are we alone down here, with our many ways but realizing there is only one way to the end?
Am I alone down here?
Are we alone down here?
Are we walking the right way down the right path down the right road?
Are we?

Friday, February 14, 2014

That is What I Think I am Supposed to Do

"I'm not sad anymore I'm just tired of this place."
                                                                     ~The Wonder Years


~That is What I Think I am Supposed to Do~




Is it okay to look at her and see beauty?
I believe so because that is what I do.

Is it okay to pray for a swing of heart?
I hope so because that is what I do.

Feelings inside of me bellow and over flow.
It is a reminder that being fake is making me a fool. 
These feelings inside of me are floods of inner thoughts and butterfly effects.
And they are a reminder that being me is making me a fool for her. 

A reworking of my thoughts and feelings make a way towards an absolute.
A nervous mouth and an unspoken tongue have a way of getting in my way.
Distance seems terrible and letters seem fickle.
And presents truly wont do. 

Until I understand what it means to truly be by your side.
To be in your presence.
To make the sun shine. 
Distance, letters, and presents will surely not do. 

Is it okay to look at her and see beauty?
I believe so because that is what I do.

Is it okay to pray for a swing of heart?
I hope so because that is what I think I am supposed to do. 

Sunday, February 9, 2014

~Lost on Our Islands~

"From the day we're born we are scarred and torn.We've been scared to sing out loud, but we don't care no more'cause we know life is short. We don't care who hears us now.Breathe it in and let it out."
                ~Switchfoot (Jon Foreman) 





~Lost on Our Islands~


Lost and then saved.
Freedom comes with the wind, with the ocean, with my broken heart. 
Lost and then saved. 
Freedom comes from wood and nails, blood and vinegar, earthquakes of vengeance.
Lost and then saved.

I have these nails and I have two pieces of wood. 
I have these prayers sent up to the sky hoping for them to come down as rain. 
I have these nails and I have two pieces of wood. 
I have these prayers sent into the ground hoping for them to spring back up.

Blank pages on scrolls forged by fire.
What will be written about me?
Blank pages on scrolls forged by love.
What will it be written in?
Blank pages on scrolls forged by fire.
Are we using ink, or graphite, or should we be using blood as white as snow?

I have this hammer that came with my nails and wood.
I have this device to nail up my Savior.  
Over and over again I pound and hammer my words away. 
I nail up my savior instead of realizing the empty tomb.

I am lost but I can be found.
I am lost and sometimes need to see the hands.
The holes that represent life, and bring me back to repentance. 
I am lost but I can find my way back by his saving grace.

This world that we live in does not adhere to the teachings of God.
But he is in this world.
This world is lost, but we as vessels can help them become found. 
He is in the world.

One should understand he came to save those who are lost. 
We are lost on our islands and our eyes are covered by black smoke. 
There are monsters moving in to take us away from the truth.
But he is there and he shed his blood for me, and you.

Freedom comes in the wind, it comes with fire, it comes from the ocean. 
The waves crashing over our souls eroding the strife and the pain. 
The fire burning away our sins.
The air blowing away the smoke that clouds our eyes.

So what will my blank pages be filled with?
What will your blank pages be filled with?
I hope for words that say, "Well done, good and faithful servant!"
The Son of God and man paid the price, so he could write my scroll in blood.

Lost and then saved.
Freedom comes from the cross, the nails, the blood.
Lost and then saved.
Freedom comes from the sins being washed away. 
Lost and then saved.
Freedom comes when the poor are fed. 
When we do our part and take up his sacrifice. 
Be like the God that saved the world and covered the price for our salvation.
From being nailed up on my two beams, and then overcoming death.

We are lost, but we can be found.
By his blood, by his story.
The truth can set us free. 

Friday, February 7, 2014

~I Think that is the Better Option~

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
                                                                                                           ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
~I Think that is the Better Option~

How about we forget all that we hold dear?
How about we regret everything that has been given to us?
How about we hurt the ones we love?
How about we throw our lives away and destroy the hope we have found inside?

Let us not turn into something we are not.
Let us not abandon the ideals engraved in our hearts.
Let us not take throw away the  answers we know are not right.
Let us take hold of the truth and never look back.

Why do we not cut off the love that is supposed to save
And fall to the ground and crawl away?
Why do we not disregard lives that have saved us
And then ask ourselves why we deserve another day?

Let us not turn into something we are not.
Let us not abandon the ideals engraved in our hearts.
Let us not throw away the answers we know are not right.
Let us take hold of the truth and never look back.

Thoughts and attitudes can cloud the judgments of those left behind.
Thoughts and feelings can be fickle and hold no true meaning.
Do you not think that doubts have crossed the minds of all that believe?
Thoughts and attitudes betray the way that was laid before me.
Do you not think that doubts have crossed the hearts of all that believe?

How about we embrace all that we hold dear?
How about we cherish everything that has been given to us?
How about we love the ones that love us back?
How about we throw away the doubts and remember the hope we have inside?
I think that sounds like the better option.

Sunday, February 2, 2014

~Bought by Death, Forged by Life~

"I'll need my maker
To cure me of my doubting blood
And drain me of the sins I love
And take from me my disbelief."
                                         ~Dashboard Confessional


~Bought by Death, Forged by Life~

A burning desire to do what is wrong against the other side.
I crawl in the depths of what I believe to be true.
I hang my head down in the face of truth.
A burning desire for things that I know does not glorify.

It only takes one to change the world.
It only takes one to turn desires of flesh to desires that fulfill.
In my life I know the rights and I know the wrongs.
I know that I am tempted by body mind and soul.

It only takes one to deny the other world.
It only takes one to corrupt and kill all that is whole.
In my life I fear the wrong people, but I can try to fear the truth.
In my life I know it is impossible to be perfect, but I can try.

A burning desire to do what is wrong in the eyes of my Lord.
Sometimes I struggle to believe.
I need a burning desire that is hotter than that of the world.
I need to break the ropes and be on my way to the path that hurts more
.
The reward is great the road is hard.
I am tempted by fates that I do not want to choose.
I should live for my death, unlike the world who live for life and themselves.
The reward makes everything sweeter.

At worlds end I will be joined with the Son of Man.
At worlds end the dichotomy of life becomes one.
My burning desire fully on the Son of Sorrow for my sorrow is no more.

It is time be be real, to crawl, to run, to breathe in this life.
It is time be be real, to fight, to walk, to long for the truth.
The real burning desire bought by death and forged by life. 
The real burning desire is a matter of heart.