There are unfinished things
That must go beyond this world
Like relationships without closure, without resolution
Like a dead branch
Severed by a crack
Hanging limp from the tree of life
Not falling, not leaving
Because its source of life still exists in the world
But there is no longer a connection
And there was no healing, no understanding, no humility
Until it was too late
Occasionally now,
The creaking of its dead fibers
Reach my ears and draw my eyes to the memories of its fullness and strength
But its weight still hangs
Heavy and limp with sadness
Reminding me then,
There are unfinished things
Unfinished Things
2009Oct10 at 1020 (Personal Life, Poetry)
Tags: beyond, branch, closure, connection, dead, existance, fullness, healing, hear, heavy, humility, life, limp, relationship, remaining, remember, resolution, sadness, severed, sight, source, strength, time, tree of life, understanding, unfinished, weight, world
“I Love You” (a proposal to my beloved)
2009May7 at 0515 (Heart Thoughts, Personal Life, Songs)
Tags: beauty, belief, beloved, burden, burning, chaos, darkness, end, flame, healing, heartlessness, humility, knowledge, life, lonely, love, marry me?, pain, proposal, pure, serious, shame, singing, sun, together, true love, truth, want, yielding
Why do we let things become so serious?
Why do we feel so burdened?
Why do we try to handle everything alone?
I don’t know…
I don’t know…
But I want to know something
I want to know someone
And I believe that you and I, each are the others one
To heal through the chaos
To heal through the pain
Together call on the truth, and live within its flame
To burn away the lies in fear and find what’s left to name
Be it beauty, or be it shame
I don’t care as long as your there to take it on again
We’ll burn together
As bright as the sun
Illuminating the darkness, cutting through the heartlessness
As long as we’re humble
As long as we’re pure
Yielding to the other will be true love, I’m sure
But in the end
It comes down to this hardly simple thing:
I want to know someone
I want to be known
And I believe that you and I, each are the others own
I believe that you and I, each are the others own
So will you marry me?
Will you be my one?
I want to know my life with you
To sing of truth and love
Will you marry me?
From Fear to Relationship
2009Jan5 at 0108 (Community, Conversations in my Head, Theology?, Thinkables)
Tags: answers, confidence, contact, fear, humility, knowledge, peace, questions, receive, relationship, understanding
Fear comes from things that you don’t understand
Which, if responded to in humility, leads to questions
Which, if they are received, leads to answers
Which, if received and understood, lead to peace and confidence in knowledge and understanding
Which, if contact is continued, forms and binds a relationship.
After a Debate Between Hypothetical Opinions
2008Dec15 at 1249 (Conversations in my Head, Personal Life)
Tags: debating hypothetical opinions, gift, humility, judgment, mercy, pride, receive, understanding
“But is it easier apply judgment or give mercy? I am trying to make the giving of mercy understandable.”
“Mercy is only a gift to the humble.”
“True, because only the humble will see it as such. All the more, because of this, we should always give mercy, rather than grow prideful in our judgment–no longer allowing the reception of mercy ourselves.”
The Beauty of a Name; having…
2008Dec15 at 1227 (Personal Life, Thinkables)
Tags: beauty, called, have, humility, information, knowledge, labels, true, understanding, useful
…a relationship in which you’re called a name that is true and full of knowledge and understanding, rather than a label which is only spoken in the passing of raw information to aid in giving people what they want–something that people look at and think no further than, ‘Oh, that’s useful.’
I despise labels! Neither do they require humility, nor do justice to knowledge and understanding.
The Mantra
2008Dec2 at 1222 (Personal Life)
Tags: humility, meekness, patience, service, submission, wait on the Lord
Meekness, humility; service, submission; patience and waiting on the Lord.
Yes, I am humble, aren’t I.
2008Sep5 at 0919 (Personal Life, Thinkables)
Tags: arrogance, Christ, boast, liar, pride, sacrifice, worthy, humility
Boasting in myself can only make me a liar at its worst, and arrogant and prideful at its other worst; but to boast in Christ and His sacrifice is worthy for all time.
[This was in response to a comment I made to someone at work.]
