Hope

Lost people are stuck in darkness.
Found people choose to venture
into the darkness
to bring the lost to the light.
This is the hope

I choose to hold onto.

This is the hope

Jesus has given.

This is the hope

that is being offered to you.

This is

Your Hope.

10 May 2011

Broken Lens

The glasses fall.

The lens crack, but

do not shatter.

The eyes of the wearer

go unfocused, seeing only a blur.

The eyes frantically flicker around,

searching for the clarity they no longer have.

they single out the cracks, eyeing them,

noticing every intricate fault.

Seeing only the brokenness, and not

the beauty beyond.

The eyes once saw in full, clear, detail

trees, flowers, waterfalls, and all of nature.

The eyes once saw a Father smiling to a Son.

The eyes once saw fullness, completeness.

They once saw beyond themselves.

Now all they see

are the cracks.

All they see, all they focus on,

are broken lens.

12 Oct. 2010

Ode to Jesus

Dull nails, pounding,

pounding.

Sharp thorns, stabbing,

stabbing.

Humiliation, growing,

growing.

His thoughts, on me,

on me.

This public display of

affection is

unbelievable. But

I believe

it. It is true.

How can I comprehend

my King, suffering,

suffering?

All so He could save,

could save.

All for who? Me and you,

me and you.

He loves unconditionally,

undeservedly.

And so I return the favor

by loving others, and

loving Him.

02 Sept. 2010

Thoughtful Expanse

Life on the road.

The body is still, silent, unmoving,

but the mind...

Oh the mind takes

a vast journey.

A journey transcending time:

reflecting past memories,

analyzing the present, and

pondering the future.

A journey transcending boundaries:

limitless, free.

Going to places unseen.

Exceeding facts of reality.

A journey transcending the "norm:"

friendships deepened,

truths revealed,

a God unveiled.

A journey transcending emotions:

Happy isn't strong enough

Overjoyed doesn't describe enough.

Ecstatic isn't powerful enough.

A journey transcending freedom:

Earthly freedom carries a price.

The mind is free, so free, eager to explore.

At no cost.

The journey of the mind,

the road=the opportunity.

20 June 2010

Circular World

Jesus. You're the center of all.

Doesn't anyone care?

Why do they leave you confined within the church walls?

Young, old, new believers, life-long believers: they're all the same.

At least it feels that way.

I'm so tired of living in a fallen world.

I'm so tired of hurting for my friends who don't know Christ.

I'm so tired of living in a circle.

I'm so tired. Tired of arguing in circles,

no more arguing-let's act.

Act so we can re-unite a divided church.

Act so we can live life in love.

Act so one day my dream can come true:

the dream that one day every knee will bow, and

every tongue will praise you always and forever.

Jesus-be my Act.

Change has to happen,

I have to stop going through the motions.

How can I impact my school today?

How can I share Jesus with the lost?

How can I be who God created me to be?

Jesus, fill me up again. Let all I do be for you.

14 April 2010

Fact of Life

I have nothing to fear:

God is here.

Friends

Friends: They're there to pick you up.

Friends: They're there to laugh with you.

Friends: They're there to live life with you.

Friends: They're there to cry with you.

Friends: A precious gift from God.

Friends: Let us never take them for granted.

Friends: They show you that love is a verb.

Friends: A very visible, tangible way that God shows us he's right next to us, holding us-loving us.

Friends: My heroes.

16 Nov. 2009

My Favorite Teacher--Revised

My icon of "cool,"

she is no fool,

to live with a love

as only Jesus could give.

Although her name

may have no fame,

I hold her high

within my mind.

I've known her for a while now,

yet she never ceases to amaze me somehow.

I think I've got her figured out,

then return the next day and renew my doubt.

I'm glad she's in my life, though,

and I'd hate to have her as my foe.

But truly I can call her friend,

the one watching out for me that I never had.

I have her two more years,

then I may shed some tears.

For I will miss her,

but I will never forget Kelly Dirks.

16 Dec. 2009

My Friend Holly

A fountain of everlasting fulfillment,

Spirit and Love.

The source of her hope,

her love,

her joy,

her compassion,

fills this fountain,

to never fun dry,

always run deep.

When I feel myself running on empty,

I know I just come to the fountain,

spend time with her,

and I shall soon be flowing again.

Her fountain

overflows

and fills everyone that

comes in contact with her.

The water,

the Living Water,

cascades down from heaven to

flood her in its righteousness.

And she soaks it all in, but never

ceasing to share it with others.

I stand in awe,

this amazing fountain that I have

not once seen falter or trickle;

it always,

always,

always,

pours out.

18 Oct. 2009

The Light Awaits

The sun shines brightly,

enhancing the darkness of shadows.

Shadows are the absence of light,

thus cannot live without the light.

If it cannot exist on its own, it

down not exist at all. It is only

where the light has not yet

reached.

So it is with evil-it does not exist.

Rather, it is the absence of good,

where the Love of God, and Jesus Christ,

have yet to be seen. Though

they are there, waiting, to turn on the light.

04 Sept. 2009

Identity Crisis

Fish and chips.

Chips that aren't really chips.

Chips that are fries and yet called chips.

What's the point,

of calling a fry a chip if a fry is a fry and a chip is a chip?

And yet they,

for some unknown reason,

call fries chips.

So if chips are really fries, then are fries really fries?

Or are fries chips?

And if chips are fries,

and fries are chips,

then is anything itself?

Or is everything something else?

22 March 2009

Starburst

The colors splash,

the stars burst,

and a rainbow is born.

Sticky, chewy, candy squares.

Killer for braces,

wonderful for kids.

High off sugar,

the kids are livin' life and lovin' it,

As the teachers sit and stare,

grumpy expressions staining their faces.

23 March 2009

Two Sets of Footprints are Always Better than One

Together as young,

walking into the unknown.

Together as teens,

walking into the unknown.

Together as adults,

walking into the unknown.

Together as old,

walking into the unknown.

Together as one,

walking into the unknown.

The Journey of life,

is always unknown.

A flaming inferno,

could be waiting around the bend.

Or a calm lake,

peaceful as could be.

The path of life,

is always better,

when traveled together.

16 Jan. 2009