Struggle
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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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Flow
Dropping in, getting real, what danger is there? If I connect to how I feel, I will be swallowed up! Feelings so big from the magnetism of momentum, rolling over myself so many times for the sake of perseverance that I am crushed underneath. And the cycle continues until I reach a cliff. What weight Continue reading
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Replica
Mind spinning again, over nothing of consequence, or is it everything? Who can tell?Engine revving in my chest when I’m not built to run, but there is no more fuel. This should not be possible. I am an abominable machine, alive by supernatural means: a replica of the original man formed from clay by God’s 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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To Find Rest
Blessed are you, patient, unwavering God, faithful Creator of life and beauty, who brings forth all peace and restoration. Thank You for bringing us back into Your arms, over and over, when we stumble so easily and can’t seem to keep ourselves from falling. Sometimes, You lift us up to carry us, or to put Continue reading
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To the Bearer of All Things
Thank You, Oh King, for holding us in Your heart and Your ways, even when we can barely hold ourselves; Maybe especially then, when it’s hard to feel, but one moment of considering reveals we would fail to even exist without You. This every breath is Yours. This leaden weight is Yours. This struggle and Continue reading
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Consolation Prayer
Oh God, How my heart laments, for all the aching souls who love You, yet feel the weight of the battle. Though I see the necessity of the trials, my heart yearns for Your mercy. Help us trust, in Your wisdom and all that You call forth for us, be it struggle or triumph, darkest Continue reading
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