When a roadblock blocks you in; when your wheels lose all their spin; when there’s no where left to turn; when there’s no more bridge to burn; when this world has let you down; when your hope becomes unfound; when you’re simply at a loss; when you wind up at the cross; Remember friend…no matter where you’ve been; Jesus always loved you…when.
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Incomplete; unrefined; imperfection; disinclined; unauthentic; counterfeit; unrelenting; hypocrite; non-courageous; unprepared; brokenhearted; empty; scared; all too often, we’ve been these; times too few, we’ve hit our knees; but when we do, we are remade; undefined by our mistakes; pardoned; polished; loved; forgiven; redefined beyond description.
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Empty out your wallet; empty out your mind; empty out the hours spent simply wasting time; empty out the dresser; empty out the drawer; empty out the hidden closets always wanting more; empty out the garbage; empty out the trash; empty out the words of cynics plainly talking smack; empty out the emptiness that’s filling up your cup, empty out yourself enough so God can fill you up….:)
I’m so out of shape, both physically and spiritually. However, my two mile late-night run tonight turned into a worship service. I spoke to God; I lifted up my friends and family before God; I thanked God for abundance and blessings; for being able to walk, run and breathe freely in a free land; I looked to the skies, all starry-eyed and I listened. I had no grape juice, but there was communion. I had nothing to offer God, but my full attention; I was reminded how much I love a God who is so crazy about me, despite me; so crazy about us, despite us! Isn’t that crazy!
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Faith in your Maker is more than a weapon; it’s peace that runs deep, it’s hope reaching heaven; it’s every step granted, it’s every breath given; it’s eternal direction for those who are driven; it’s the never give up, it’s the never look down, it’s the eyes on the prize, it’s the jewel in the crown; the able in incapable, the plain in unexplainable, the escape in inescapable, the real in realization, that strength from deep inside can never be enough, to conquer any climb requires strength from God above.
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I sat down this morning and started writing something and this is what I came up with…
Can’t paint a picture uninspired, inspiration is required
A song that’s sung apart from feeling, feels unsung and brings no healing
Words from lips that seem self-seeking, broadcast uneventful speaking
Poems rendered without rhyme, could have an ending…just like this one:)
Now, let me say that I was enjoying writing this little poem up until that last line. Mainly, because I felt tugged not to end this poem with a rhyme. If you know me at all, then you know that I love to rhyme. Rhymes are important to me. Actually, I wanted to end this poem with something like “poems rendered without rhyme are out of touch and out of time” or “poems rendered without rhyme are hard to read and hard to find” Who knows what the last line should be? There could be a million different endings; and How many people are even going to read this? Does it really matter?
That’s when I started thinking about my life. There’s a lot of things I don’t like. I don’t like my garage being a mess, my shelves being dusty or my guitar being out of tune. I don’t like it when my life seems out of sync or out of rhyme. It makes me feel like an unfinished poem or an incomplete song. Who wants to read an unfinished poem or sing an incomplete song. The only answer I can come up with is the answer I always come back to….God.
The Creator of the Universe is so Creative that He is up to the challenge. I might not have much confidence in my own abilities, but I do have confidence in His. He’s the same God that wants to use HIS abilities in each of our lives. In fact, Philippians 1:6 says “being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus” So, my goal is let some of this “perfect poem, have to rhyme all the time” stuff go and give God the pen, pencil, crayon and keyboard a little more often…let God finish the last line…let God get the last word:) -Danny Ray 11/22/2010
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