spiritual war
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Impending Light
The ravaging of evil intent wraps around my limbs to pull me down and steal my life whenever God breathes upon me to rise. His mighty fire is alive and well, but the battle is fierce. The shadows still grip me and burrow ever deeper to avoid the light. They survive the reckoning of God’s Continue reading
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War Wounds
I. My heart is a bruise, so charred and raw, you can’t see how black and blue it is underneath the burns. I don’t want to be touched, but it needs to be cleansed. There are claws in there, from shapeshifting creatures intent on doing harm. They look like love in a certain light, all Continue reading
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The Purpose of Night
We, too, fall into the cracks of the earth as if to be swallowed and forgotten in an endless abyss. But you, God, raise us up out of the depths to transform us into something to be loved. Before your day of reckoning, when we meet you in the air, you change us. We die Continue reading
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Prisoner of War – a lament
There was once a prisoner of war taken far into the desert. Ravaged, plundered, choked near to death. Clothes torn, left to die. Sun baking her exposed skin. Lips blistering from thirst and heat. She crawled. She crawled in search of water. She crawled in search of shelter. She crawled even though she burned alive in Continue reading
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Waning Lament
I am empty, out of air like I’ve been strangled and left barely alive. Everything is a thief robbing me of life force as if I lost my birthrite, as if I had one to loose. I cannot scream. Someone stole my voice and all of my noise. I see a darkness in the distance Continue reading
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A Place to Stand
How lost I become when I hear the monsters in my sleep and their voices creep into my ears, as if the shadows lurking in every dark corner wait for an opening in a vulnerable heart, and relish the chance to destroy from the inside with the endless tricks of my own mind. They turn Continue reading
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The Victor’s Garden
Many seeds that were planted in me now burst into a garden for my God, while the snarling beasts surround me seeking to devour precious flowers. They may yet destroy wherever they step and where their teeth may tear. But to The Lord, I do belong and they will never consume the Power who made Continue reading
Season For God 