Reoccurring Dreams

Reoccurring dreams

And fantasies

Passing back into my mind for storage

Truth and nonsense,

Our carelessness

Feeling to be free forever and I wait

Ten thousand days

Just to wonder if it ever really were

Or as it seems

As in a dream

Only like the secret keepers like to say,

"Those were the days"

And how we danced because our youth was fading fast

It never lasts

But I don't want to chase the place I'm in or wish

A moment by

I would not hide

Because the sun requests our company and we

Can not deny

That in each night

There is a time when we consider life or pray

To be awake

Appreciate

That each breath could be the last one that I take

Loose Thread

Like loose thread, it teases.

I take hold and I pull.

Carefully, cautiously

Begging it, "Unravel."

So delicate, it breaks,

Becoming but a shred.

How pitiful!

String between my finger tips,

Laughing as it twirls,

Mocks my own mortality,

and tuants me when it curls.

Fraying ends distract

The tatters from their tales

Making sure to hide the faded truth

And all that it entails.

It's clear I'll never you

Your full length or how

A stitch once made you lovely

Or how love wore you out.

Now though, I can see

A glimpse of what's beneath

And say that I am satisfied

With knowing just this piece.

In Response to Robert Frost's "Wind & Window Flower"

I do not believe the winter breeze

might love and long to stroke the window flower.

Fog upon the glass is deceitful

misty like the breath of a kiss

that almost came to be.

It seems to beckon gently and to tease

as the wind shivers in the gaps along the shutters.

But the wiser know the frosty snow sparkles with a secret

hiding behind his wintery, love-sick eyes;

a plan to steal away the life that waits

so patiently upon the sill behind the pane.

Faith

His purpose was for the nations to seek after God and perhaps feel their way toward Him and find Him- though He is not far from any one of us.

Acts 17:27

"The real meaning of eternal life is a life that can face anything it has to face without wavering. If we will take this view, life will become one great romance- a glorious opportunity of seeing wonderful things all the time."
-My Utmost for His Highest

God placed in your heart the desire to know Him so that you would begin feeling your way towards Him. You found little hints and great signs that pointed towards Him. You felt His presence, but you were not able to find Him on your own.

Then He began to reveal Himself to you. He began to romance you. He tugged on the strings of your heart, pulling on the desire he placed within you, drawing you closer as he revealed more and more of HImself. And He led you that way, by the strings of your heart, to the tipping point. You walked right up to the edge-you could not help but follow Him- and then you fell. You tumbled into a love that was true and undeniable because you knew your lover and you knew that He would never leave you.

That is faith.

A confident man walks into a room and everyone can see, written in his expression and displayed in his body language, that he is confident. He never chose to be confident, but because he knows who he is and because he likes who he is, he IS confident. His confident nature shows in his manner.

Faith is confidence produced by knowing who God is and accepting what God did and is doing for you. You do not choose to have faith. You chose to follow the desire He gave you- to search for Him. You began to feel your way towards Him and He began to reveal Himself to you

Begin with the End in Mind

"How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and, keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most. If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster. We may be very busy, we may be very efficient, but we will also be truly effective only when we begin with the end in mind."

"in developing our own self-awareness many of us discover ineffective scripts, deeply embedded habits that are totally unworthy of us, totally incongruent with the things we really value in life. Habit 2 says we don't have to live with those scripts. We are response-able to use our imagination and creativity to write new ones that are more effective, more congruent with our deepest values and with the correct principles that give our values meaning."

"I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past."

"People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. They key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value."

"whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power."

Guidance means your source of direction in life. Encompassed by your map, your internal frame of reference that interprets for you what is happening out there, are standards or principles or implicit criteria that govern moment by moment decision-making and doing.

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, an integrated wholeness.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones."

"each of us has a center, though we usually don't recognize it as such. neither do we recognize the all-encompassing effects of that center on every aspect of our lives.

-The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Begin Again

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experience, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

-Chris McCandless

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

-Billy Joel

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

 - Dr. Seuss

May your coming year be filled with magic and good madness. Never forget to make some art- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself. I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it.

-Neil Gaiman

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts and the space of mind.

-Alex Grey

proactive people

"Love is a verb. Reactive people make it a feeling…if our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so. Proactive people make love a verb. Love is something you do; the sacrifices you make, the giving of self, like a mother bringing a newborn baby into the world."

"If you want to study love, study those who sacrifice for others, even for the people who offend, or do not love in return. If you are a parent, look at the love you have for the children you sacrificed for. Love is a value that is actualized through loving actions. Proactive people subordinate feelings to values. Love, the feeling, can be recaptured."

-The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People- Stephen R. Covey