Holy God...
Sprinkle us with your cleansing blood.
Invite us deeper into the holy of holies.
Quiet our insides until all we can hear is you.
Explode our sense and creativity with your announcements of unfailing love.
Shelter and protect.
Guide and care.
Offer and recant.
In your presence,
Yes with you,
is fullness of joy.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Day 220: 28/10/2013
God...
Our hearts race forwards and forwards some more.
Our minds leap and leap higher even more.
Our hearts rest.
Rest deep with you.
You calm.
You quiet.
You still.
You hush.
Here, in your presence is where I want to be.
Our hearts race forwards and forwards some more.
Our minds leap and leap higher even more.
Our hearts rest.
Rest deep with you.
You calm.
You quiet.
You still.
You hush.
Here, in your presence is where I want to be.
Day 219: 27/10/2013
An evening Psalm:
My heart broke and it laughed.
The emotions were extreme today.
The creativity you exercise is awe-inspiring.
I melt in the palm of your hand.
My heart skips a beat at your wondrous works.
Steadfast love surrounds me.
Your faithfulness plummets the depths of my mind.
Remind me again and again.
Remind me until all I can utter is your faithfulness.
Show me again and again.
Recount your deeds in a perpetual manner.
Unleash your joy.
Let it explode in my life like fireworks.
Sprinkle your grace on every moment of my life.
You amaze me.
You undo me.
Great is your faithfulness.
I am my beloved's and he is mine.
Extreme
My heart broke and it laughed.
The emotions were extreme today.
The creativity you exercise is awe-inspiring.
I melt in the palm of your hand.
My heart skips a beat at your wondrous works.
Steadfast love surrounds me.
Your faithfulness plummets the depths of my mind.
Remind me again and again.
Remind me until all I can utter is your faithfulness.
Show me again and again.
Recount your deeds in a perpetual manner.
Unleash your joy.
Let it explode in my life like fireworks.
Sprinkle your grace on every moment of my life.
You amaze me.
You undo me.
Great is your faithfulness.
I am my beloved's and he is mine.
Extreme
Day 218: 26/10/2013
God...
Your graciousness is unmatched.
Your splendor is unsearched.
Set apart yourself in our lives.
Be holy.
Be above all.
Amen.
Your graciousness is unmatched.
Your splendor is unsearched.
Set apart yourself in our lives.
Be holy.
Be above all.
Amen.
Friday, October 25, 2013
Day 217: 25/10/2013
Holy God...
Inviting you call me.
Returning I answer.
Your heart beat my cadence.
Your laughter my rhythm.
Your eyes my assurance.
Your arms my deliverance.
Your words my rest.
Encircle, enfold, envelope every moment of my day.
Invade, intertwine, invite each beat of my heart.
Transform, transcend, takeover the soil of my life.
Your kingdom.
Your power.
Your glory.
Amen.
Inviting you call me.
Returning I answer.
Your heart beat my cadence.
Your laughter my rhythm.
Your eyes my assurance.
Your arms my deliverance.
Your words my rest.
Encircle, enfold, envelope every moment of my day.
Invade, intertwine, invite each beat of my heart.
Transform, transcend, takeover the soil of my life.
Your kingdom.
Your power.
Your glory.
Amen.
Day 216: 24/10/2013
This one is inspired by something my mama said.
God...Father...
Oh and your love pushes through all my self built mountains of fear and destruction.
It pushes itself right through the pit of hell and into freedom.
It pushes through every moment of doubt and inadequacy.
Each beat of my prodigal heart.
Inviting
Returning
Inviting
Returning
Inviting
Returning
Your open arms
My feeble steps
Inviting
Returning
Inviting
Returning
Never forcing, always calling.
Never trapping, always freeing.
Inviting: you welcome.
Returning: I surrender.
God...Father...
Oh and your love pushes through all my self built mountains of fear and destruction.
It pushes itself right through the pit of hell and into freedom.
It pushes through every moment of doubt and inadequacy.
Each beat of my prodigal heart.
Inviting
Returning
Inviting
Returning
Inviting
Returning
Your open arms
My feeble steps
Inviting
Returning
Inviting
Returning
Never forcing, always calling.
Never trapping, always freeing.
Inviting: you welcome.
Returning: I surrender.
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Day 215:23/10/2013
Holy God...
And I never tire of this...
this light that wakes us,
that shines brighter than the brightest star,
that warms our outsides and heals our hearts.
I never tire of this.
And yet your faithfulness is more sure,
more concrete than my love of the sun.
How?
How is your love so vast?
How is your faithfulness so sure?
How is your grace so untarnished?
We delight in you.
We delight in your goodness.
We dwell in you.
We dwell in your goodness.
We rest in you.
We rest in your goodness.
Amen and amen.
And I never tire of this...
this light that wakes us,
that shines brighter than the brightest star,
that warms our outsides and heals our hearts.
I never tire of this.
And yet your faithfulness is more sure,
more concrete than my love of the sun.
How?
How is your love so vast?
How is your faithfulness so sure?
How is your grace so untarnished?
We delight in you.
We delight in your goodness.
We dwell in you.
We dwell in your goodness.
We rest in you.
We rest in your goodness.
Amen and amen.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
214: 22/10/2013
Been reading Hosea. Hear the influences?
God...
We chase after other things, other dreams.
We chase after other things and ask blessings from your name.
How is your love this faithful?
How is your mercy so concrete?
How is your grace unquenchable?
Our lips speak our devotion.
Our money and our time tell an inverted story.
How is your patience unmatched?
How is your kindness unfalteringly available?
How are you not exasperated?
Your kindness compels me.
Your faithfulness assures me.
Your devotion reminds me.
Let us, again, return to the Lord.
God...
We chase after other things, other dreams.
We chase after other things and ask blessings from your name.
How is your love this faithful?
How is your mercy so concrete?
How is your grace unquenchable?
Our lips speak our devotion.
Our money and our time tell an inverted story.
How is your patience unmatched?
How is your kindness unfalteringly available?
How are you not exasperated?
Your kindness compels me.
Your faithfulness assures me.
Your devotion reminds me.
Let us, again, return to the Lord.
Day 213: 10/21/2013
God...
I will lie down in peace.
Whatever has gone before,
Whatever has been left undone,
I let it rest.
I lay it down with you.
I will lie down in peace.
Lie down in peace with you.
In the name of the father,
the Son,
and the Holy Spirit.
I will lie down in peace.
Whatever has gone before,
Whatever has been left undone,
I let it rest.
I lay it down with you.
I will lie down in peace.
Lie down in peace with you.
In the name of the father,
the Son,
and the Holy Spirit.
Day 212: 20/10/2013
God...
I'm reckless and restless.
We eat your words. We taste and see that the Lord is good.
I'm weary and tired.
In your presence is fullness of joy.
I'm discouraged and apprehensive.
Where the spirit of the Lord is there is freedom.
I'm reckless and restless.
We eat your words. We taste and see that the Lord is good.
I'm weary and tired.
In your presence is fullness of joy.
I'm discouraged and apprehensive.
Where the spirit of the Lord is there is freedom.
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Day 211: 19/10/2013
The parts in italic are taken from Psalm 107.
God...
And the hits just keep coming.
And my mind just keeps on flooding.
And some days the fog just won't seem to lift.
He satisfies the longing soul,
and the hungry he feeds with good things.
And my heart seems to wander.
And my mind has its own agenda.
And the tension from a façade of control threatens to win.
He sent out his word and healed them,
and delivered them from their destruction.
Still I come to you,
come to you with every lost, fragmented portion of my soul.
come to you with every doubtful way in me.
Then they were glad the waters were quiet,
and he brought them to their desired haven.
Rest.
God...
And the hits just keep coming.
And my mind just keeps on flooding.
And some days the fog just won't seem to lift.
He satisfies the longing soul,
and the hungry he feeds with good things.
And my heart seems to wander.
And my mind has its own agenda.
And the tension from a façade of control threatens to win.
He sent out his word and healed them,
and delivered them from their destruction.
Still I come to you,
come to you with every lost, fragmented portion of my soul.
come to you with every doubtful way in me.
Then they were glad the waters were quiet,
and he brought them to their desired haven.
Rest.
Day 210: 18/10/2013
God...
And I don't do well in all this mess!
I believe you can create space where there is none.
Today, today I believe it.
Do your holy work.
Create space at work, at my home, in my schedule, in my heart and in my soul.
And I don't do well in all this mess!
I believe you can create space where there is none.
Today, today I believe it.
Do your holy work.
Create space at work, at my home, in my schedule, in my heart and in my soul.
Day 209: 17/10/2013
God...
The night has swallowed the day,
and I just lay it all done.
All the chaos and anxiety.
All the fear and inadequacy.
I lay it all down....
down deep into your redeeming hands.
Swallow my heart with your love.
Widen my spaces.
Empty.
The night has swallowed the day,
and I just lay it all done.
All the chaos and anxiety.
All the fear and inadequacy.
I lay it all down....
down deep into your redeeming hands.
Swallow my heart with your love.
Widen my spaces.
Empty.
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Day 208: 16/10/2013
Christ,
We splash and sing.
We dance and swim.
And without you,
Without you I am empty.
Your eyes burst forth in quiet laughter.
Your mouth grins wide in playful joy.
And without you,
Without you I am dry.
Delight.
We splash and sing.
We dance and swim.
And without you,
Without you I am empty.
Your eyes burst forth in quiet laughter.
Your mouth grins wide in playful joy.
And without you,
Without you I am dry.
Delight.
Day 207: 15/10/2013
A whisper and a breaking.
A shouting and a quaking.
A silencing and a tremor.
An enticing and a wooer.
A conquest and a survivor.
Territory
A shouting and a quaking.
A silencing and a tremor.
An enticing and a wooer.
A conquest and a survivor.
Territory
Day 206: 14/10/2013
Scattered and shattered.
Renewed and redeemed.
Subdued and submerged.
Concealed and confessed.
Confined in momentary rest.
Pushed and pursued.
Hidden and ridden.
Unwanted and unravelled.
Enveloped and encircled.
Words stuttered softly.
Encamped.
Renewed and redeemed.
Subdued and submerged.
Concealed and confessed.
Confined in momentary rest.
Pushed and pursued.
Hidden and ridden.
Unwanted and unravelled.
Enveloped and encircled.
Words stuttered softly.
Encamped.
Monday, October 14, 2013
Day 205: 13/10/2013
God...
And this, this the first night I've actually sat here and seriously contemplated not writing. Throwing this whole adventure out to dry. The tears just keep flowing.
Water
flowing,
leaving,
Reviving.
Sewing
mending,
hemming,
fixing.
Plant
growing,
feeding,
providing.
Star
shooting,
burning,
captivating.
Broken. Undone. Reborn.
And this, this the first night I've actually sat here and seriously contemplated not writing. Throwing this whole adventure out to dry. The tears just keep flowing.
Water
flowing,
leaving,
Reviving.
Sewing
mending,
hemming,
fixing.
Plant
growing,
feeding,
providing.
Star
shooting,
burning,
captivating.
Broken. Undone. Reborn.
Day 204: 12/10/2013
God,
Fold into us three cups of thankfulness.
Kneed into our souls your mercy and grace.
Blend your lights with your truth and let them satisfy us.
We bake in your love.
Let our faith in you rise, like yeast in the dough.
Oh master baker...
supreme chemist...
make our senses come alive with your flavours.
We surrender to your mixing.
Fold into us three cups of thankfulness.
Kneed into our souls your mercy and grace.
Blend your lights with your truth and let them satisfy us.
We bake in your love.
Let our faith in you rise, like yeast in the dough.
Oh master baker...
supreme chemist...
make our senses come alive with your flavours.
We surrender to your mixing.
Day 203: 11/10/2013
God...
Guard our goings out and our comings in.
Realign our hearts to feel the warmth of your light.
Position us on your path.
For you are our God.
You are the one our hope rests in.
You are the dock when all around us is wild waves and quick currents.
You are our compass that points us home.
You are the one.
The one our hearts' long for.
You are the one.
Guard our goings out and our comings in.
Realign our hearts to feel the warmth of your light.
Position us on your path.
For you are our God.
You are the one our hope rests in.
You are the dock when all around us is wild waves and quick currents.
You are our compass that points us home.
You are the one.
The one our hearts' long for.
You are the one.
Friday, October 11, 2013
Day 202: 10/10/2013
God..
Still me. Quiet me.
Speak "peace" to the storm of my soul.
Silence the fears.
Assure and secure.
Attune and renew every vacant room within me.
Sprit lead me..
Guide me to our first meeting place.
Remind me again and again of your unfailing love.
Tell me the story over and over.
I am my beloved's and he is mine.
Still me. Quiet me.
Speak "peace" to the storm of my soul.
Silence the fears.
Assure and secure.
Attune and renew every vacant room within me.
Sprit lead me..
Guide me to our first meeting place.
Remind me again and again of your unfailing love.
Tell me the story over and over.
I am my beloved's and he is mine.
Day 201: 09/10/2013
God...
When I walk into the home of my heart I want to see your hat hanging by the door.
I want your things around this home of a heart.
I want your presence in my life to be obnoxiously obvious--like stepping on little pieces of lego.
When I walk into the home of my heart I want to see you standing there, not as a guest but as a permanent fixture.
Open every locked room.
Dust through every cobwebbed space.
My heart is your home.
Come Lord Jesus, Come.
When I walk into the home of my heart I want to see your hat hanging by the door.
I want your things around this home of a heart.
I want your presence in my life to be obnoxiously obvious--like stepping on little pieces of lego.
When I walk into the home of my heart I want to see you standing there, not as a guest but as a permanent fixture.
Open every locked room.
Dust through every cobwebbed space.
My heart is your home.
Come Lord Jesus, Come.
Day 200: 08/10/2013
God...
We open our hands and unfold our lives in an attitude of surrender.
We lean deep into your embrace of grace.
We search thoroughly into your eyes and find our resting place.
We encounter you.
Through the moments of our day we encounter you.
We sink deep into your sofa of comfort.
We put our feet up and nestle in for the night.
You are our strength and our shield.
You are our comfort.
Even your shadow drives the darkness away.
Your words fulfill and satisfy.
Your light and truth march before me in their faithful cadence.
In your presence is where I want to be.
Sing your songs of victory over us while we sleep.
Stay wide awake all through the dark hours of the earth.
Wake us up with your sun.
We delight in your goodness.
We rest in your grace.
Amen
We open our hands and unfold our lives in an attitude of surrender.
We lean deep into your embrace of grace.
We search thoroughly into your eyes and find our resting place.
We encounter you.
Through the moments of our day we encounter you.
We sink deep into your sofa of comfort.
We put our feet up and nestle in for the night.
You are our strength and our shield.
You are our comfort.
Even your shadow drives the darkness away.
Your words fulfill and satisfy.
Your light and truth march before me in their faithful cadence.
In your presence is where I want to be.
Sing your songs of victory over us while we sleep.
Stay wide awake all through the dark hours of the earth.
Wake us up with your sun.
We delight in your goodness.
We rest in your grace.
Amen
Monday, October 7, 2013
Day 199: 07/10/2013
God...
Our little hearts beat fast in the wake of your grace.
Our souls run wild with the faintest touch of your embrace.
Our ears tingle at the sound of your voice.
In your presence is fullness of joy.
The rain pounds hard and harder still.
The wind thrushes the trees in the leaves in a noisy chaos.
The inward and outward storms are brewing.
In your presence is fullness of joy.
Frightened by enemies without and evils within.
Shaking in the cold of hopelessness.
Wandering farther and father than this heart knew it could go.
In your presence is fullness of joy.
In the stillness of the questions.
In the quiet here with you.
In these moments of fear and terror, awe and wonder
We hear you calm the storm.
In your presence is fullness of joy.
In every situation:
In your presence is fullness of joy.
Through every circumstance:
In your presence is fullness of joy.
During every prolonged moment of unknown:
In your presence is fullness of joy.
The earth is yours.
And all that is in it.
Thanks be to God.
Amen.
Our little hearts beat fast in the wake of your grace.
Our souls run wild with the faintest touch of your embrace.
Our ears tingle at the sound of your voice.
In your presence is fullness of joy.
The rain pounds hard and harder still.
The wind thrushes the trees in the leaves in a noisy chaos.
The inward and outward storms are brewing.
In your presence is fullness of joy.
Frightened by enemies without and evils within.
Shaking in the cold of hopelessness.
Wandering farther and father than this heart knew it could go.
In your presence is fullness of joy.
In the stillness of the questions.
In the quiet here with you.
In these moments of fear and terror, awe and wonder
We hear you calm the storm.
In your presence is fullness of joy.
In every situation:
In your presence is fullness of joy.
Through every circumstance:
In your presence is fullness of joy.
During every prolonged moment of unknown:
In your presence is fullness of joy.
The earth is yours.
And all that is in it.
Thanks be to God.
Amen.
Day 198: 06/10/2013
God..
And you plunge me.
Plunge me deep into the deep.
Where me heart beats faster
and my mind runs frantic.
You plunge me.
Plunge me deep into the deep.
And I feel lost and forsaken.
Naked and broken.
Dismantled and frightened.
You plunge me.
Plunge me deep into the deep.
Lost.
And you plunge me.
Plunge me deep into the deep.
Where me heart beats faster
and my mind runs frantic.
You plunge me.
Plunge me deep into the deep.
And I feel lost and forsaken.
Naked and broken.
Dismantled and frightened.
You plunge me.
Plunge me deep into the deep.
Lost.
Day 197: 05/10/2013
In response to Jeremiah 29:12-14
God...
Are you really going to do that for me?
Are you really going to heal all the places that are broken?
Are you really going to bring me back from a long exile?
Are you actually going to gather all the places that you've scattered?
And make the places of deepest pain the greatest victory?
God...
Are you really going to do that for me?
Are you really going to heal all the places that are broken?
Are you really going to bring me back from a long exile?
Are you actually going to gather all the places that you've scattered?
And make the places of deepest pain the greatest victory?
Day 196: 04/10/2013
God...
And we thank you for the sun which warms and shelters our hearts.
We drink in you like we drink in our coffee.
We breathe you in like feather dust.
Fill our hearts with more than we have room for.
Clean our hearts.
Clean our minds.
Protect us. Guide us.
Stir us and strengthen us.
Our hearts' beat for you.
And for you only.
Amen.
And we thank you for the sun which warms and shelters our hearts.
We drink in you like we drink in our coffee.
We breathe you in like feather dust.
Fill our hearts with more than we have room for.
Clean our hearts.
Clean our minds.
Protect us. Guide us.
Stir us and strengthen us.
Our hearts' beat for you.
And for you only.
Amen.
Friday, October 4, 2013
Day 195: 03/10/2013
God...
If I'm honest about today. It really didn't turn out how I planned or imagined.
And so I feel broken. Broken. not enough. too much. all in one large gulp.
And you quiet me.
You still me.
You tell me to stop and listen.
Your words like a bright colour on a dull page:
I am weaving something of intricate measure and value. I'm washing you free and clean. I'm launching you into something new and beautiful. Come apart more with me. You have grown weary in this life giving task. This is when you know who you are. This is when you run free with a tender boldness. Tender boldness is how you should live. Don't grow weary in doing good. I love you.
If I'm honest about today. It really didn't turn out how I planned or imagined.
And so I feel broken. Broken. not enough. too much. all in one large gulp.
And you quiet me.
You still me.
You tell me to stop and listen.
Your words like a bright colour on a dull page:
I am weaving something of intricate measure and value. I'm washing you free and clean. I'm launching you into something new and beautiful. Come apart more with me. You have grown weary in this life giving task. This is when you know who you are. This is when you run free with a tender boldness. Tender boldness is how you should live. Don't grow weary in doing good. I love you.
Day 194: 02/10/2013
God...
And even when the reeds are wrapped around my head...
And even when I feel fortified by mountains of fear...
Your love is still faithful.
Your love still descends down from your holy hill.
Descends down and puts skin on.
Salvation is from the Lord.
And from him only.
Amen.
And even when the reeds are wrapped around my head...
And even when I feel fortified by mountains of fear...
Your love is still faithful.
Your love still descends down from your holy hill.
Descends down and puts skin on.
Salvation is from the Lord.
And from him only.
Amen.
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Day 193: 01/10/2013
And I hear you say to me today....
I know your life isn't turning out how you thought it would or how you planned it.
I know that you sometimes feel you could do a better job at constructing your own life.
And I know that just when you thought you couldn't break anymore, you break.
You break into what feels like a million fragmented particles of soul.
And I am breaking you...
I'm breaking you whole.
I'm breaking you all the way to freedom, all the way to life. Abundant life.
I'm breaking you past the looming fears and into fragrant love.
I'm breaking you straight through the valley of doubt and into the clear open pastures of faith.
I'm breaking you.
And I'm breaking you whole.
And this kingdom of mine.
This kingdom is upside down and backwards.
It's giving to receive.
It's dying into life.
It's breaking into wholeness.
So don't fight it. Receive it.
Receive it with your arms open wide.
I know your life isn't turning out how you thought it would or how you planned it.
I know that you sometimes feel you could do a better job at constructing your own life.
And I know that just when you thought you couldn't break anymore, you break.
You break into what feels like a million fragmented particles of soul.
And I am breaking you...
I'm breaking you whole.
I'm breaking you all the way to freedom, all the way to life. Abundant life.
I'm breaking you past the looming fears and into fragrant love.
I'm breaking you straight through the valley of doubt and into the clear open pastures of faith.
I'm breaking you.
And I'm breaking you whole.
And this kingdom of mine.
This kingdom is upside down and backwards.
It's giving to receive.
It's dying into life.
It's breaking into wholeness.
So don't fight it. Receive it.
Receive it with your arms open wide.
Day 192: 30/09/2013
God...
Steady us. Quiet us.
Compel us deeper into your radiating light.
Twirl us into the depths of your love.
Spin us into clarity.
Tickle us to our senses.
All day long our hope is in you.
Yes our only hope is in you.
Steady us. Quiet us.
Compel us deeper into your radiating light.
Twirl us into the depths of your love.
Spin us into clarity.
Tickle us to our senses.
All day long our hope is in you.
Yes our only hope is in you.
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