Insufficient

Eyeing tomorrow from penchant angle, so specific it targets and elucidates the caverns of hidden mind. When viewing future or concocting revisionist history the pen wobbles until righted by allegiance to perspective ambition.

What felled towers remain, embraced by the brasos of belief? Kept aloft by the struggling foundations of ill pent wishes and yearned-for objectives. When children begin the lie it is perpetuated and made perfectly immobile in adulthood.

Can dreams sustain dissemble? Can empty fist slake blatant hunger for that which is right? Where will the false reams of evidence be stored to counsel those left famished? Into relief none perish as the heart of truth feeds all.

Bravo!, chimed the petulant. Dancing in streets aflame with the remnants of God’s continued blessing, given as sacrifice to the imaginary projection of trans-humanism. What artificial thought may cover the bruises and riven persona?

Oh air to wings bent and folded beneath the weight of man’s folly. Laughing in hilarity at the advice and wisdom offered. We stand alone, bereft of territory, hope and purpose, as the waters of splintered men beckon us to mammalian failure.

Each

Easy to see. The bright colors of her heart. Looking faithfully at tomorrow. Not weighed down by the world. Walking simply in the breezy afternoon. So full of nice things to say about you.

Remarkably forgiving. When so many would fight for empty ground. Taking things in stride. Open wide to find the witness she once borrowed. Telling tall tales of peace, hope and love.

Remembering all that we’d forgotten. Of motorbikes and cotton clouded skies. The false reasons twisted our agenda. And we once again found footing in fields so freshly mowed.

No more lies to sell or surrender. Open season for the warmth of waiting pies. To delight in pleasures of each moment. Giving up the fearful spate of jealous eyes. We hovered nearby.

In glory we found purpose. In dreams we ransomed all our doubt. Always forward no more time for minds to wonder. Investing in reason we released the power of undaunted words.

Proclaiming she’d made happy, the plans she’d concocted in sad moments. Relinquishing the footholds of our enemies. We found relief. And pleasure once again spoke our names.

The size and shape of honor. The character to reach beyond each star. Codify the misgivings of our wisdom. Taking twain as we skirted jubilation. Soaking tears in rain.

The helical whisper. Sage and brooms of dandelion brush. We smelled the wind for answer. All the while infrequent in our pester. Leaving room for hearts and minds to author change.

Outside

It is not as simple as you project. Far less complex. You would like to discuss rage, no waging wars when peace the objective and perspective. See fury only goes until all else is consumed and one masters the aspects of freedom through the power to compel action and reaction. Where the products of love resolve there is always a twist, unexpected miracle and mystery beyond the base spirit of domination.

It is not the time to for towels to be thrown, but stance, not filtered in fear or ambition, but endurance. These are not the days for long breathed sighs of disgust, remorse and regret. Moments of forgiveness, unbridled discussion of the things that are rights and worthy of discussion or right performance. Days of hope in waiting patiently for something beyond the standard will of man looking beyond the shroud of our own imperfection.

My ears swell with mortal cries of capitulation. Territories ceded and ground given as echos of character are disrobed to accept or settle the new resolution. What is left no longer union with higher thought or patient reliance on the things yet seen. It is not evidence we seek but a certain knowledge of those with belief beyond the power of single eye witness, but collective and individual understanding that there is always a space beyond our thinking.

Both sides believe themselves correct. Though one willing to look at problems beyond self-resolution. Our territories marked and labeled, so fearful of lost stature, label or painted pride. So colorful yet grey in the sadness of inflexibility. So destitute in the lacking hope of promise. Promise given in oaths beyond the power of flesh and magical sequence. We stand to reach outside the realm of what our words deem possible.

Limits, self imposed or stacked by social standing. The simple quest of sinlessness compounded and reinforced by my yearning for all things foul. What lands reside beyond the river of my self reluctance or surrender? What levers employed when using the weapons of godly understanding. Too small to stand so tall against giants of mystery and complex wonder. I resolve to do the least of things with the greatest possibility of evolutionary outcome.

Solitude

In the eye of my mind. Small symbols and large places. Walking until tired, I remembered to look into the needs of those wondering. Following the lights I found my way into the end of darkness. Shaking hands with midnight it felt good to think about the coming of dawn. In pleasure we discussed the treasures of our founding and walked the windows into yesteryear.

Some days the colors are the most important. Some nights its the whispers, quick thinking and songs that light the shadows. Keep some of it away. For it is good when boundaries are consistent and respected. Farming is a discipline of wakefulness, good health and a sound understanding of provision for tougher times. Songs stand out when sung in the flickering light of bonfire.

Weakness. Strength being shape in the rock house of today. Footfalls and linear scope, putting all things in to perspective from the barrel of randomness. By next week we will want to remember and fail to recall what we expected to be unimportant moments. Feeling sick for sec. Looking to the stars I remembered how wide it all is and sat down to ponder how small I really am.

Perhaps, this is the day that find the gateway to inevitable freedom. Perhaps this is my second to last breath. Taken. Not found without sound and trumpets flaring in the parapets of Heaven. I reached for the unreachable and found that it was always within my grasp as long as I asked God for provision. I promised silence to the day after and it reminded me after hearing me bellow at the night.

Some things were made to be left alone. Especially in the thoughts of children. Walking with the philosophers having that age old argument and the foundation of man’s floundering will. We point the sky and think that some how we made it because we can see it shine and shimmer above. I have no such self delusion but know that deep within my DNA, heart and mind God exists waiting for me to be ready.

Set

Most things don’t matter in retrospect. People. Wishes, hopes and expectations are electives. There is no end to a man that hungers for forever. Keeping it in reserve is great, pragmatic, until the car breaks down and fuel festers.

The end feels like the beginning. Agitation. Promises must be reviewed in their keeping. Are you nervous about the test you must take whether passed or otherwise? Remember, life lived in abundance demands some measure of failure.

Looking, East for weather and signs of movement. Transformed, blown by the breezes of passions beyond my own admonition. It heals and no one knows the restoration until limbs employed. Seeking wisdom where none has been found.

Use it and find peace in the sighs of expiration. Fumes, tombs and brooms, all blown away by the hand of time. There is nothing but love which extends a heart to eternity. In the quiet words, adoration lingers. Touching tomorrow’s edge.

Not what it or I once was. Remembering the pulled teeth of my own resistance without condemnation. Into the next day I wondered, plundered and bumbled. Tossing about grand swelling words hoping to change the tides of my fate.

One seeks home, whether in the weeds and blood of battle or the calm smooth waters of the garden pond. These are the days for which we prepared and lingered. Finding the rough pebbles touch memories of a world that came to pass.

Wading in Faith

No Stop in me. Gone, the boundaries and gates imposed. Wind through the trellis. To flight, no right or left but onward to where dreams become the stuff of experience. When hope meets tear and laughter meets to turned up corners of smile. All the while, refraining from entertainment of just reason. For there are powerful words rolled up in emotion and tests.

Don’t keep the wings awaiting. Let loose the wicked and the good to work out parameters of glory. Ensued, imbued, renewed. Filled with the things that swallow up time and expiration. All the while, facing scenes from nightmare’s cancelled in the joys of moments present. To the edge, not kneeling or peering over at valley’s beyond. Beyond is the bastion we seek.

What if you knew you could have ten more when stewardship considered? Pestering voices in the back of mind’s eye. Blinking to let the streams of universe yet solvent, flow into the containers they’d been given. You’re candid about willingness to imagine a universe without the God who made it and you. Don’t get lost in the annals and labyrinth of your wounds.

Too close to estimate the dungeons collapsed speak volumes to the prisoners found freedom. We sought rest, while forgiveness, promise and hope were handed out. Too extreme to consider that perhaps we don’t know everything. A little while and we remember our fondness for consideration of the absurd. Relinquishing control of the lured masses.

I did not mean to stamp toes, add burden or set hearts aflame in anguish. Rather to lead them to burst into fire themselves at the joy of seeing the mystery resolved. Before them there was no one who doubted in acquiescence. For our Fathers prepared our hearts in their disobedience to Sovereign. We have known correction and find it becoming.

Courage

What is right but that which guides hearts to stand against any obstacle? Declaration, admonition, posture or promise. Defense of the untenable or complacency to pain and suffering of those unprotected. What backbone, defying the logic of self-protection or preservation to demand no advances? What warns or wills a man to stand against the fury forces of the dark to deny them access or control over those innocents who would otherwise be overrun and underwritten in victor’s history and retelling of revision?

We live in pregnant moments of the world’s rebirth by the Will and influence of our Sovereign Creator, God. Lying down, milling about or standing with feet planted upon the immovable, Rock of Ages, is the choice calling each of us. What ground is under your boots? Will you be moved forward to stand against the crushing wave and fear of dominion? Or be found written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, filled with the power that created and established all things? What voice speaks to you in desperate moments?

Always forward the Cherubim pass. Why never retreat of feet or flight of wing to tender fealty to fear and resignation? What comes in confidence beyond the threat of harm or death? What price is paid to buy the hearts and mind of transformed man? What value the life of Sovereign, in forgiveness and acceptance of Faith? This is the joy we seek, yet deception leads us to greater promised wealth. What is worthy, worth more than the blood and breath of God, stepping into worldly dimension to fulfill the promised of eternal hope and love?

Where have the grip of my crimes departed? What shame is felt in dedication to the moments born before time for my feet to stand or flee? What is the promise of rebirth in the birth pangs we now enter? What day shall the dangerous things of the world depart leaving the children un-threatened to live out days too long to now foresee? Why did Methuselah die before millennia? For the length of life in a day is one thousand years before God. Do we yet have the mind shifting reason and tenure to stand against the dark of day when the light shown so clearly into night?

Are we to become the men that God breathed? Not men of valor born of angels mix in blood and rule. Men made by the heart of the Prince of peace. Not born to dominion or conquer but love for Him and them? What days shines before us? That we may find glory, not for self but for far greater purpose than one man serves in his own passing. We have been given grace for the taking. Not a future promise of transformation, power, hope and eternity. Now, is the day of my deliverance. Now I stand marshaled against against the things that threaten courage. This day I have been given to stand. I have been become the immovable object and the over whelming force of God to stand against ALL advances of evil. In His name.

Left behind

An adopted rat who thought forgiveness real. Continued being who God made him, saddened by his once ratty ways but always the ugly rat who survived all events sharpened in his rattiness. Squirreled away in admiration the things and provision a rat must pack for continuance, absent any real forgiveness those who never saw the rat any other way but as scapegoat for the painful dilemma’s of this life. Along the way this rodent beloved the unfriended and did all a rat may do to welcome them to health. But being a rat he knew that eventually finding that safety in acceptance he would once again be discarded for the prettier pets of life’s finding. You see a rat for some reason doesn’t deserve the forgiveness offered others. Being unsocial in his undertakings or humble in his works he is never admired for the dedication and diligence it takes a rat to make it. He is perceived filthy by any measure and though he may have remanded himself to a higher calling will always be loathed as the rat of everyone’s understanding. You see they were never going to accept and forgive the rat for being a rat. Even if he wore another hat.

The myth my own. The friendship my carefully developed fable to tell myself in the moments when the loneliness and self loathing unbearable. The inability, unwillingness or total denial of the horrific things a man has done, haunting him are the stuff of dissolution of any healthy recovery must find termination even if given over to the imaginary. You see the Gospel is the only thing for which I shall never be ashamed. Its forgiveness real. Its healing achievable. Its ends certain and Divine. There is no shelter for the rat but with God. No adoration for his gifts or treasure of friendship, but the eventual exclusion from all that may be sought to compel a joint objective. The rat will never be anything other than he has always been to those who tolerate his existence. Only God Almighty may find him useful, adorable and worthy of allegiance, faith, hope and love. The rat no matter how many days attempting to make himself something other than he is will find that acceptance in kind. The myth dispelled, the rat settles into being a disgusting rodent, though his heart discontent in the lack of acceptance and the festering reality that his love for the beautiful and the horrid remains. For God having loved him as a rat demanded that he share that grace with all who continued in unforgiveness. The rat gave up being the hero of his own story. For all real glory is achieved in submitting before God.

Having ended the pursuit of forgiving himself something beyond his resolution. The rat did whatever he could, mostly in secret because none would believe goodness from a dirty rodent. He forgave, lived and long beyond the days of hope believed that some would eventually see, if not that they needed a rat, but that God too had made him for His good purposes. He knew the love of God and that would be his healing. No longer living self-created and perpetuated lies he began to see that all had a bit of rat within them. Most ashamed of what they’ve done associated their works with their identity and suffered the shame of imaginary coping. Many found the darkness and the secrecy befriend them. Practicing in the shade and shadow those things for which they too would be ostracized in rat-hood. Knighthood beyond him he resolved to be the best rat he could become through the guidance and power of God’s Spirit and initiative. For God showed him that there are no imperfect creations, only those meant for Divine effort and those for pursuit of hell and separation. Being a rat was never the problem. Being a filthy rat, though beyond our means and tenure was. In submitting himself to the Sovereign the rat had found forgiveness, a forgiveness and cleansing beyond the will and want of man. The rat found that even a rat can live in goodness, righteousness and faith. He would always have to scurry to avoid the loathing and lash of those who saw him ratty, but it mattered not the hearts of those who despised but the love he cherished for them.

For the rat forgave himself the greatest of God’s provision. He apologized for his ratty ways and hoped that all would find peace within their hearts in laying down the burden of unforgiveness. Most never would and found themselves justified in the fact they needn’t forgive a rat for any reason. He realized that the love unrequited was in truth a greatest sense of living outside his own intention. The relief from hopeless and wanton acceptance allowed him to see greater things than just self-actualization. He began to walk a path most never knew a rat could travel. Not enlightenment but service in discernment. Knowing that God connected all things even the snake and rodent. Not for their own chasing and disgusting yearning but to see in this life the things that lay beyond it. For all seek the eternal even the rodent of remembrance. For there is nothing achieved in unforgiveness. The burden, debt and trap of attempting to atone for past failure is a loop of perpetual enslavement. For those things of the past may never find reckoning in the present and will always be used as filthy veil to disguise the greatness and potential left within us. Although he wished otherwise the rat reconciled his failures and after all saw that well what he had done was what all rats do. But there is no need to wear the shawl of worldly condemnation. Regardless of how eyes saw him he would remain disassociated with identity of what he had done but aligned with what he was yet becoming. Those who cannot forgive a rat are shackled. Trapped by their own rules, perceptions and self service. But the rat understood that it takes each of us to have that awakening to see it. So he forgave and moved on to embracing, experiencing and seeking God’s good will in each offering, knowing that all the pain of being a rat and all that entails would be left behind in stardom.

Porthole and Pathway

What is the nature of our moment? Are we left defenseless, frightened, cajoled? Or have we been given all opportunity, power, pregnant silence and chaotic maelstrom as provocation to make a weighty decision? What question would be so severe and awesome that we would be given lifetime to decide? Am I focusing upon the shaky ground of the years here or beginning to live eternity? Where do I wish to be when last breath escapes me? Isn’t that they only question worthy of a lifetime’s contemplation? How will you finish this life as we are all in the business of living forever or completing this timely but temporary measured existence?

What is security? Isn’t it a sense of peace set in defense against approaching or potential threat? How may a man’s money assure that conjecture of defense? Is it quantum entangled with our perception of security from intrusion, health effect and harm? Is it defined by our worldly inclusion and determination to defend against loss of life and property? Is it a question of eternal consequence? When I seek security as the basis of my peace am I employing supernatural or sub-eternal authority? Are my quests if not simply offered the Divine in prayer a declaration of my carnal desires and maintenance as if a man contained in the jail cells of time and space?

How does a proud man utter declaration? What peace is known of man? What history has been written free of the victorious romance of the Worlds’ Empires? Realistically if they killed everyone in your tribe, do you believe that your history was properly recorded? What price is found in ignorance? What bliss included? Is that the peace that man sought? To die not knowing the keys to intelligence and the gravity of God’s demanded decision? Is that the nature of deception found? Is ignorance only achieved in information-controlled deception thus their worldly declaration of its power? When those who seek to conquer do it to control the historical record is it world dominion they seek? What is the potency of deception that makes it alluring to the wicked?

When I find that all I pursue is frivolous, what value fills my heart? Where in lay the definition of freedom but in awareness separated from the deceptive hand of those who seek enslavement? What peace is found in a world that never wanted it? What pray tell may be resolved in my manipulation, control or influence of worldly variables? All my peace lay outside the bars of time? Infinity may only be discovered in a discussion and decision beyond the boundaries of space, gravity and measured existence. The Divine question and opportunity is invitation to find that which exists beyond the parameters of the temporary. It is the only path to life everlasting. It is the invitation to inherent, experience, benefit and know the life awaiting all through the decision that must be determined in this life. To experience life eternal we must meet Christ here to reach the hereafter. There is no other way. It has to be done this way.

Blend

Remember the most forgettable, regrettable night? The flight or fight that drove you from doorway to road in search of wisdom in absentia? The follies you’d thought were proven, the smiles held in contempt and the tears too cool to evaporate. Well-passed-frozen in memorization that you failed to take that next breath. Claiming innocence while holding shards of glass you had cast into the fireplace after toasting. The scapegoat realm.

Never thought to stop and learn what I needed. Never knew much more than blatant lies. Flabbergasted at the mirror of the moon on the screened porch. Gone into darkness before finding the light switch. I dreamt of women who could have explained the righteous. Planted in the flower box waiting for a slice of sun. Lost before I’d begun, never knowing I could have simply won. Draping scales and heavy curtains before my eyes hoping that spiritual understanding arrived.

There but wishing you had bought another ticket, taken the next bus found that new road, leading to unknown blossoms in the sky. What does grateful entail but avoidance of the next stupid move never made? Giving in when you would have doubled down and lost it all. To brawl with shadows who were far too quit to lose a fight with the likes of devolved chimps. We negotiated neglecting to see that our partners in crime had also been bluffing.

Sometimes dreams are a bit too real. Bruises that never fade and fail to allow us to blend into the crowd as anticipated. None of it was planned, all of it was booed, none of it was anything but perfect. Into the landscape I sought to dissolve wearing an apron of bronze, a headlamp and a purple tie. Knowing all along that God would have them see and remember. All along hoping for an understudy part in the cast that was there for the purpose of being forgotten.