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Shine Brightness from your soul Your heart Your love of all He has done for you Beams forth Pointing others To that same unconditional love That is waiting for them Your smile Your words Every part of you Shine Light that is true Not fabricated for what should be Not forced to what others desire Natural Like the sun setting Dancing over calm ocean waters A light Only God could ignite Shine For everyone who encounters your light Can only leave Desiring the same fire In their own soul
Build me up Or break me down The power lies In the voice you sound What is spoken Is air Cannot be seen But the power Hurricane force Can blow me away Or like a spring rain Can pour life Life that lifts Lights Shines Your tongue More deadly Than any weapon Or life giving The choice Yours And mine With every lift of our voice
Who am I What does the world say Athlete Actress Dancer CEO Powerful, talented, intelligent Best, brightest Boldest Most popular Labels That distract my soul And leave an empty shell Any attempt to fill that emptiness Drugs, alcohol, money, stuff Relationships More Enlarge the hole And enhance the emptiness Who am I The question looms larger than life Larger than me Until I collide with the real The identity I was meant to have God God’s child God’s favorite His love fills every inch Of the expansive emptiness His grace The only answer I need In Him I am complete In Him My identity is secure
The awesomeness of the world that embraces me His creation Every day let me be amazed by you To look around in quiet Be still And feel true love For only true love Could create this heaping ball of beautiful mess Just for me to glimpse In these moments with you Every color Plays together in my senses Blues Brilliant and crisp Greens Bursting with life Reds and oranges Fiery sunset skies It is all a gift The flower that grows from nowhere The bird that sings a sweet hello The twinkling of a clear night sky The sound of children laughing The touch of a friend Softness The embrace of pure warmth On a spring day New life exploding all around The gentleness of life giving rains It’s all a gift The mountains that stand tall and proud Lakes and rivers that team with joyous life Plains, canyons, fields, and homes Every sight, smell, touch and taste All gifts Every day He is blessing us The ultimate artist Who painted beauty No one has since been able to master You can find it everywhere you look In the eyes of a stranger in need Softness in the harshest setting The landscape The tiniest creatures The architect Who built the world that sustains life That gives and takes Plays Protects Amazes I look out Everything I see has his handprint His heartbeat Embedded deep into it I am just a speck of sand In this full desert of creation And yet His gifts for me Make me feel loved Important To the One who matters most He thought of us In all that He provided Our farmer Chef Babysitter Zookeeper Author, poet Policeman Gardner Accountant Tour guide Doctor Fireman Judge Counselor Teacher CEO Producer Our most talented musician Using every living thing to create a song Beyond compare A symphony of harmony and discord And rhythm They pulse of life It is all His A gift I am blessed to glimpse Each time I take the time To be still And quiet And allow Him to come to life all around me
Someday Soon? Who knows Someday A partner Not a pal Walking hand in hand Towards the perfect sunset Same path Not walking aimlessly In the same area Someday His plan will be complete Not my plan Alright for right now But His plan Perfection for a lifetime Someday The time will come And I will wait And not regret A moment of today
Look Up Just the slightest movement
But it caught my eye
Caught my attention
Drew me out of the self focused
Self centered
Self driven moment I was in
My head lifted
My senses heightened
My world expanded
Open to new possibilities
Open to new
My attention to me faded into nothing
My focus turned
The one transformed to many
The mundane
Turned to joy
The usual
Turned to extraordinary
Time stopped as I drifted
To this new reality
Unfolding around me
My senses connected fully
The smells
The sounds
The sights
All become part of me
As I glanced up
At the slightest movement
That swaying in the wind
My world changed
Because my head lifted
Quiet Time moves slowly
Seemingly standing still
While the miles fly by
On the ground down below
With each moment
With the miles disappearing behind me
The world melts away
My breathing easier
My heart rate slower
My pulse quieter
My mind hushes
The pains that have attacked me
The worry
The fear
The stress
All left behind me
With each moment in the sky
Unplugged
Unwound
Refreshed
Quietly able to refocus
Refilter
Refall in love with my God
Who has been quietly waiting for me
Defeating Alone Alone is vulnerable
Alone is dangerous
Alone
The voices you hear destroy you
Push you
Further into the dark
Into a walking waking nightmare
Alone is death
Life was not meant
To be tackled alone
A thread is easily broken by itself
But braided with others
Its strength multiplies
Together is powerful
Together is security
Together
The voices that attack you
Defeated
Darkness is flooded with light
Together
When the world tells you you cannot
Together holds you up
And tells you you can
When impossible blocks your path
Together breaks down the wall
Clears the rubble
And walks you through
Together holds your hand through fear
Together holds your heart through pain
Together dries your tears through sorrow
When you fall lost into utter darkness
Together shines the rescue light
Together laughs with you
Celebrates your wins
Big and small
Shares your table
Together makes a house a home
Together takes broken and creates family
Fight back against alone
Let together into your life
There are people who matter to you
People you have been entrusted to care for
To care about
People who are fighting alone
Don’t let any one of them
Exist outside of your together
Redefined I looked at life through other peoples eyes
Lioness
He leads the pride
But she is not complacent
She follows his guidance
But takes her role
With strength and integrity
She uses her skill
Her cunning
Her gifts
To provide for her family
To protect her young
She moves majestically
Stands alongside her sisters
Works hard
And rests easily
She leads from a place of service
She finds her place in the plan
Embraces it
Owns it
Without needing to show it
Without the need to be the lead
Without taking away from
His leadership
His love
She is strength
She is beauty
She is exactly who God
Defined her to be
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